Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” logs a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, becoming her longest-running ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. That tune is comfortable once more atop the tally, and as it earns ...

Shortly after the release of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, she appeared to break a record held by Adele for ten years. Swift’s massive first-week sales broke the record Adele held since the ...

In its first five days of release, Swift’s new album broke a record set by Adele’s “25” a decade ago. Swift’s equivalent sales include 1.2 million on vinyl. By Ben Sisario When Adele’s album “25” came ...

Taylor Swift is listening to audiobooks beside her bed — or, in this case, on a backstage couch — as a way to steady herself before stepping onto the Wembley Stadium stage. In a scene from her new ...