It went without saying that TAYLOR SWIFT’s new album “Lover” would debut at #1 . . . it was only a question of how many copies she’d sell.

When the dust settled, that number was 867,000.  That’s the biggest sales week for ANY album since Taylor’s last album“Reputation” sold 1.2 million copies in its first week in November of 2017.

The full Top 10 hasn’t been released . . . possibly because the staffers at Billboard spent all their time counting Taylor’s albums.  Regardless, it’s safe to say that nobody else came close.

“Lover” is Taylor’s SIXTH #1 album . . . and she’s now the only woman with six albums to sell at least 500,000 copies in a single week.  The only other act to do it is Eminem.

And even though she didn’t do it this time (yet), Taylor is the only act to have four different albums each sell a million copies in a single week.