Taylor Swift achieves 12 new RIAA certifications!
Record-breaking superstar Taylor Swift has garnered a total of 12 new certifications from the RIAA. Among them, her critically-acclaimed, 5 star 2020 album, Folkore, has achieved gold and platinum status.
Taylor Swift’s eight full-length record Folklore arrived this summer to widespread acclaim and audience excitement. It became the top-selling record of 2020 worldwide and is the only album this year to cross 1 million albums in pure sales in the US. The singer notably completed the longest consecutive run at #1 since 2016, with six straight weeks on top of the Billboard 200. What’s more Swift has achieved 48 cumulative weeks at No. 1 across all of her chart-topping albums which marks a record amongst women.
Other RIAA certifications include You Need To Calm Down minted triple-platinum, platinum, and gold, The Man, certified gold and platinum, and Me (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco), now double-platinum. Additionally, the single Lover picked up gold, platinum, and double-platinum certifications.
Taylor Swift stands out as the only artist to have seven albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in a single week and she remains the first and only female artist in the 21st century to score five #1 studio albums in the UK.
