Taylor Swift notches her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 this year with her surprise release 'Evermore', which earned 329,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 17, Billboard reports. It's her eight No. 1 album in general, and a companion set to her earlier surprise No. 1 album, 'Folklore', which bowed atop the Billboard 200 in August. Also, Swift set a new UK chart record among female artists, with the singer achieving her six UK number one albums in a record eight years. She has beaten previous record-holder Madonna, who racked up six UK number one albums over 11 years, UK's Official Charts reports.

Machine Gun Kelly has landed his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with 'Tickets To My Downfall', which earned 126,000 equivalent album units, Billboard reports. The album was mostly written and produced by Travis Barker of Blink-182 and has been described as “pop-punk”. It also marks the first rock set to hit the top of the chart in over a year; the last was Tool’s 'Fear Inoculum'. K-pop group SuperM debuted at No. 2 with 'Super One: The First Album', Joji came in at No. 3 with 'Nectar', Pop Smoke’s 'Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon' fell from No. 2 to No. 4 and Deftones rounded out the top five with 'Ohms'.

Lil Baby is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 for a fifth non-consecutive week, which makes his 'My Turn' the longest-charting album of 2020 so far, Billboard reports. The project earned a total of 70,000 equivalent album units this week to retain its spot for the fourth straight week.

Tool first album in 13 years, 'Fear Inoculum', debuts at No. 1 with the biggest week for any rock album in over one year. The band’s fifth album sold 270,000 equivalent album units, and of that sum, 248,000 were in album sales. 'Fear Inoculum' was only sold in two formats - a digital download and a […]