The swift success of Taylor Swift's Speak Now (Taylor's Version) set yet another record for the country singer-songwriter-turned-pop supernova. Its predicable debut atop the Billboard 200 gave Swift her 12th No. 1 album in her 17-year mainstream recording career, surpassing a record for solo women artists previously held Barbra Streisand.
In addition, Billboard reports that Swift's four albums in the Top 10 matches a mark that hadn't been achieved by anyone since Herb Alpert in 1966. Furthermore, she's the first woman and first living solo artist to have 11 albums charting concurrently since the chart combined stereo and mono releases in 1963.
Per Billboard, its album chart " ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album."
On the live music front, Swift's ongoing Eras tour is projected to gross an unprecedented $1 million. Pre-sales broke multiple records— and Ticketmaster's website. To further drive home the tour's success, each stop has boosted the economy of its host city.
The Federal Reserve office in Philadelphia noted in its latest Beige Book release that May was the city's highest month for hotel revenues since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Swift's Eras Tour —which came to the city on May 12, 13 and 14— is being credited for the boost.
According to Fox Business, the institution wrote, "Despite the slowing recovery in tourism in the region overall, one contact highlighted that May was the strongest month for hotel revenue in Philadelphia since the onset of the pandemic, in large part due to an influx of guests for the Taylor Swift concerts in the city."
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