Yet “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” also sold 179,000 copies as a complete package, as fans rushed to buy CDs, triple vinyl LPs and full-album downloads. That is far more than for any other title this year — more, in fact, than for any album since Swift’s “Folklore” opened with 615,000 copies sold in July, before a revision to Billboard’s chart rules that curtailed retail bundles and delayed when the sales of many physical releases were counted on the chart.
The success of “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” has also accomplished what appeared to be one of Swift’s goals: burying the original “Fearless.” On last week’s edition of the Billboard 200 chart, “Fearless” was No. 157, with the equivalent of 7,700 sales; this week, it dropped by 19 percent to 6,200, and fell off the chart entirely.
On Sunday, Swift greeted the news of the chart success of “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” by saying she was already at work on her next rerecording. Some fans, minutely analyzing Swift’s every public move, has guessed that she will next turn to “1989,” her blockbuster hit from 2014 that included hits like “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space.” But Swift has not specified her plans.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/arts/music/taylor-swift-fearless-taylors-version-billboard-chart.html
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