Once the dominant format for music listening, vinyl albums began losing appeal in the late 1980s, with cassettes reigning up until the ’90s, before CDs took over. It also marked the single-largest year for US vinyl album sales in MRC Data history, with 27.54 million copies sold, Billboard reported. Sales of vinyl LPs and 45s grew 23 percent in 2020, from the year prior, according to data released by the Recording Industry Association of America in February. The 31-year-old singer’s chartbusting comes amid a broader vinyl comeback. It’s likely sales of “Evermore,” Swift’s ninth studio album, will continue to soar through the end of the tracking week on Thursday.

The title had previously been held by Jack White’s “Lazaretto,” which sold 40,000 copies in the week after it launched in June 2014. It sold more than 40,000 copies just three days after its May 28 release - already surpassing the biggest single-week sales record since MRC Data began tracking in 1991. The vinyl edition of Swift’s album “Evermore” shattered the US record for largest vinyl album sales in a single week, according to Billboard. The pop superstar charted a new peak in modern-era vinyl sales - as more music fans turned to vintage records during the pandemic.

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