If Swift hits number one at the end of the week she will extend her record as the female solo artist with the most chart-topping albums this century.
The new 21-track offering marks the next stage of the ambitious re-record of her entire back catalogue to regain control of her masters.
It follows an ongoing and high-profile feud with her music manager Scooter Braun, who acquired the recordings of Swift's first six albums after he bought her former label, Big Machine, for $300 million .This is why she has been re-releasing all of her albums - they are all notably labelled 'Taylor's Version'.Credit: AP
1989 features hit songs including Blank Space, Bad Blood and Shake It Off, as well as never-before-released songs “from the vault” such as Say Don’t Go, Now That We Don’t Talk and Suburban Legends. The release of the re-recorded album comes shortly after the launch of the concert film of her Eras Tour in cinemas, which has broken box office records.
OMD are on the way to hit the number two spot with Bauhaus Staircase, according to the midweek charts.Duran Duran are poised to enter the charts at number four with Danse Macabre while James Blunt looks set to take the fifth spot with his album Who We Used to Be.
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