Taylor Swift nabs 7th No. 1 album with folklore

To no one's surprise, Taylor Swift's surprise album folkloreis dominating the music charts.

Swift's eighth album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's 200 albums chart this week, marking the best first-week sales of the year and giving the pop star her seventh No. 1 title on the chart.

According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, the album sold 846,000-equivalent albums in the United Statesbased on a combination of sales and streams.

The last album to sell more units in a single week? Swift's Loveralbum, released last August.

The success makes Swift the first artist to have seven different albums sell at least 500,000albums in a single week.

Swift dropped folklorein a surprise form, announcing the album's release a day before it came out on July 24.

With 289.85 million on-demand streams of its songs, folklorealso marks the largest streaming week for an album by a female act this year.

Swift is third overall, behind the powerful streaming efforts of Juice WRLD's Legends Never Dieand Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake.

Folklorewas only released digitallybut will be available as a CD on Friday.