This week, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) topped the Billboard 200 chart.

The Lavender Haze singer, who will start her massive Eras tour in South America on November 9, made history with her record-breaking debut album, which sold 1.653 million copies upon her re-recording.

The album, which became available on October 27, is the Anti-Hero singer’s thirteenth to reach the top of the Billboard chart.

The album’s sales this week, at 1.287 million, shattered the mark she had previously established with the album’s 2014 release. 

According to Billboard, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) also has the greatest album launch since Adele’s 25 in 2015 in terms of unit sales.

Beginning with 2008’s Fearless, her second studio album, and ending with 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), all 13 of the Bad Blood singer’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects have debuted at number one.

‘I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was regained in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so much,’ the Karma hitmaker wrote on Instagram after she released the re-recorded album last week. 

“I could never have imagined the lasting magic you would bring into my life.”

‘This moment is a mirror of the woods we’ve gone through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark,’ she said. 

With immense thanks and wonder, I offer you my interpretation of 1989. It was holding out for you. Taylor.

In essence, she says, “It was all by design,” in the song “Mastermind,” which is taken from her 2022 album Midnights. Since I am a genius.

And the Shake It Off singer, 33, is a true genius since in 2019, Scooter Braun bought her masters from Scott Borchetta’s record label Big Machine, where she had spent the better part of a decade of her career. That’s when she had the notion to rerecord her albums.

Taylor expressed her disapproval at the time by creating a long Tumblr post about it. 

“I pleaded and begged for a chance to own my work for years.” Rather, she wrote, “I was offered the chance to rejoin Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in.” 

I left because I was aware that Scott Borchetta would sell the label after I signed the deal, which would mean selling both the label and my future. I had to make the painful decision to move on from my history.

“Music I wrote on the floor of my bedroom, videos I imagined and paid for with the money I made playing in bars, clubs, arenas, and stadiums,” she went on.

“Sad and grossed out, [broken heart emoji] Taylor,” was how she concluded the message.

She then made the decision to redo her first six albums, which has led to the original albums being disregarded in favor of Taylor’s Version albums, all of which have multiple “From the Vault” tracks that have never been published before.

On October 27, Swift broke the record for the most streams of any artist in a single day on Spotify, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was the most streamed album in a single day as well.

Taylor’s 1989 (Her Version) has more ‘From the Vault’ songs than any of her previous re-releases, which inspired her to pen the following:

“To tell the truth, the five From the Vault tracks are so insane that this is my most favorite re-record I’ve ever done.” It’s unbelievable that they were ever abandoned. Not for long, though!

“The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways,” she continued.