Spotify top album debuts

Among Spotify records, one of the hardest to take is the most streamed debut album in a country. Back in 2017, Ed Sheeran destroyed former bests in plenty of countries with Divide, just like Drake who shattered these scores with Scorpion a year later. In 2022, record breakers have been the likes Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Taylor Swift.

As the platform grew, local markets started making more and more money as well, developping their own music scene. Only a few years later, local stars now lead the ranking in most countries around the World.

Drake, Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Blackpink, Capital Bra, BTS, etc, what’s safe is that getting the top album debuts on Spotify in a country requires to be immensely popular on it.

Top album debuts on Spotify – Methodology

This page presents two views, by country and by artist. The former will show you the largest debuts of all-time in a country, while the latter displays for an artist the streams and the rank of his albums among all-time lists when they performed well enough.

The methodology is simple, album streams are the total number of streams from its tracks. A debut refers to the first week of release. Numbers reflect filtered streams in the same way as spotifycharts.com. It means we exclude streams rated as non-organic by Spotify.

When the tracklist of an album isn’t entirely charted inside the weekly top 200, we estimate remaining tracks according to their relative strength during the first days. Omissions will be rare but they can happen. If you notice an album which should be added, please let us know using the comments.

For some albums, Spotify has deleted the original version, and only more extensive releases remain available. Unless we explicitely spotted and fixed it, this should negatively impact the average per track.

That said, let’s now get to our top album debuts on Spotify!

Top album debuts on Spotify – Results

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Taylor Swift debut rankings by country

Lover debuts (2019)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Asia	8	34,326,000	18	1,907,000
	United Arab Emirates	N/A	177,050	18	9,836
	Australia	19	11,380,706	18	632,261
	Brazil	N/A	10,513,161	18	584,064
	Canada	37	12,034,143	18	668,563
	Germany	N/A	5,912,889	18	328,493
	United Kingdom	42	15,496,096	18	860,894
	Hong Kong	4	1,143,274	18	63,515
	Indonesia	23	4,026,588	18	223,699
	Ireland	31	1,762,665	18	97,925
	Israel	N/A	268,665	18	14,925
	India	N/A	2,809,798	18	156,099
	Japan	N/A	1,659,394	18	92,188
	Mexico	N/A	6,832,492	18	379,582
	Malaysia	9	2,465,115	18	136,950
	Philippines	7	14,621,741	18	812,318
	Saudi Arabia	N/A	184,664	18	10,259
	Singapore	6	2,655,833	18	147,546
	Thailand	17	1,319,810	18	73,322
	Taiwan	5	1,858,940	18	103,274
	United States of America	24	127,023,600	18	7,056,866
	Viet Nam	15	1,135,128	18	63,062
	Global	26	255,190,986	18	14,177,277

evermore debuts (2020)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Asia	14	26,409,780	15	1,760,652
	United Arab Emirates	19	281,915	15	18,794
	Australia	23	9,455,685	15	630,379
	Canada	21	15,144,574	15	1,009,638
	United Kingdom	31	18,318,652	15	1,221,243
	Hong Kong	20	666,503	15	44,433
	Indonesia	N/A	2,709,023	15	180,601
	Israel	N/A	309,507	15	20,633
	India	N/A	4,792,965	15	319,531
	Malaysia	24	1,559,111	15	103,940
	Philippines	11	10,795,743	15	719,716
	Saudi Arabia	23	253,172	15	16,878
	Singapore	26	1,435,494	15	95,699
	Thailand	N/A	993,082	15	66,205
	Taiwan	25	1,015,852	15	67,723
	United States of America	23	129,688,069	15	8,645,871
	Viet Nam	20	821,637	15	54,775
	Global	27	254,596,109	15	16,973,073

folklore debuts (2020)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Asia	7	41,810,222	16	2,613,138
	United Arab Emirates	18	288,917	16	18,057
	Australia	12	14,373,809	16	898,363
	Brazil	27	13,610,487	16	850,655
	Canada	19	15,780,920	16	986,307
	Germany	N/A	6,082,739	16	380,171
	United Kingdom	20	22,803,601	16	1,425,225
	Hong Kong	7	1,059,332	16	66,208
	Indonesia	15	5,071,509	16	316,969
	Ireland	16	2,940,927	16	183,807
	Israel	N/A	304,166	16	19,010
	India	N/A	4,323,938	16	270,246
	Japan	N/A	1,113,761	16	69,610
	Mexico	N/A	6,782,402	16	423,900
	Malaysia	8	2,638,420	16	164,901
	Philippines	3	20,004,075	16	1,250,254
	Saudi Arabia	26	250,206	16	15,637
	Singapore	9	2,531,767	16	158,235
	Thailand	13	1,490,826	16	93,176
	Taiwan	9	1,489,399	16	93,087
	United States of America	12	166,270,211	16	10,391,888
	Viet Nam	10	1,243,906	16	77,744
	Global	15	329,107,955	16	20,569,247
	South Africa	N/A	579,134	16	36,195

Fearless (Taylor's Version) debuts (2021)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Australia	44	6,581,368	26	253,129
	Canada	43	9,483,572	26	364,752
	United Kingdom	65	10,865,948	26	417,921
	Philippines	6	17,161,601	26	660,061
	United States of America	43	84,072,774	26	3,233,568
	Global	48	170,307,536	26	6,550,289

Red (Taylor's Version) debuts (2021)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Asia	3	59,872,491	30	1,995,749
	United Arab Emirates	7	515,216	30	17,173
	Australia	10	15,089,876	30	502,995
	Canada	10	19,888,122	30	662,937
	United Kingdom	14	25,498,069	30	849,935
	Hong Kong	10	842,169	30	28,072
	Indonesia	7	7,368,329	30	245,610
	Ireland	10	3,351,386	30	111,712
	Israel	N/A	352,163	30	11,738
	India	12	7,101,115	30	236,703
	Japan	N/A	1,338,488	30	44,616
	South Korea	33	269,032	30	8,967
	Malaysia	7	2,856,451	30	95,215
	New Zealand	11	2,790,508	30	93,016
	Philippines	2	31,351,592	30	1,045,053
	Saudi Arabia	12	365,521	30	12,184
	Singapore	2	3,719,965	30	123,998
	Thailand	12	1,546,878	30	51,562
	Taiwan	20	1,115,407	30	37,180
	United States of America	9	178,903,691	30	5,963,456
	Viet Nam	16	1,130,166	30	37,672
	Global	8	379,701,119	30	12,656,703

Midnights (3am Edition) debuts (2022)

	Country	Top	Streams	Songs	Average
	Asia	1	107,755,749	20	5,387,787
	United Arab Emirates	1	1,105,195	20	55,259
	Africa	13	2,718,517	20	135,925
	Argentina	6	9,672,376	20	483,618
	Austria	9	1,931,304	20	96,565
	Australia	1	30,735,158	20	1,536,757
	Belgium	5	2,904,457	20	145,222
	Bulgaria	5	414,752	20	20,737
	Bolivia	N/A	384,897	20	19,244
	Brazil	1	33,875,552	20	1,693,777
	Canada	2	38,288,813	20	1,914,440
	Switzerland	19	1,769,459	20	88,472
	Chile	16	6,337,462	20	316,873
	Colombia	13	3,146,237	20	157,311
	Costa Rica	7	1,220,570	20	61,028
	Cyprus	3	200,346	20	10,017
	Czech Republic	9	1,651,756	20	82,587
	Germany	27	18,564,559	20	928,227
	Denmark	28	2,822,101	20	141,105
	Dominican Republic	N/A	354,254	20	17,712
	Ecuador	15	1,053,455	20	52,672
	Estonia	2	348,815	20	17,440
	Egypt	5	537,927	20	26,896
	Spain	11	12,841,845	20	642,092
	Europe	2	154,112,728	20	7,705,636
	Finland	25	2,035,609	20	101,780
	France	N/A	6,493,425	20	324,671
	United Kingdom	3	50,981,314	20	2,549,065
	Greece	23	1,468,639	20	73,431
	Guatemala	11	1,032,978	20	51,648
	Hong Kong	1	1,560,117	20	78,005
	Honduras	6	581,134	20	29,056
	Hungary	4	1,202,321	20	60,116
	Indonesia	5	11,739,745	20	586,987
	Ireland	2	6,054,063	20	302,703
	Israel	2	1,298,348	20	64,917
	India	3	14,174,116	20	708,705
	Iceland	38	225,969	20	11,298
	Italy	N/A	6,662,337	20	333,116
	Japan	N/A	2,121,063	20	106,053
	South Korea	4	880,780	20	44,039
	Kazakhstan	N/A	129,715	20	6,485
	Latin America	4	89,866,516	20	4,493,325
	Lithuania	6	366,173	20	18,308
	Luxembourg	4	155,224	20	7,761
	Latvia	2	347,241	20	17,362
	Morocco	N/A	272,009	20	13,600
	Mexico	6	25,299,426	20	1,264,971
	Malaysia	1	5,122,598	20	256,129
	Nicaragua	4	339,343	20	16,967
	Netherlands	26	7,928,694	20	396,434
	Norway	20	3,546,496	20	177,324
	New Zealand	1	5,019,866	20	250,993
	Panama	N/A	443,563	20	22,178
	Peru	11	2,926,987	20	146,349
	Philippines	1	53,448,745	20	2,672,437
	Pakistan	1	964,072	20	48,203
	Poland	28	5,633,430	20	281,671
	Portugal	1	3,049,676	20	152,483
	Paraguay	N/A	792,107	20	39,605
	Romania	5	1,112,393	20	55,619
	Saudi Arabia	1	1,174,750	20	58,737
	Sweden	28	5,878,270	20	293,913
	Singapore	1	5,434,481	20	271,724
	Slovakia	18	537,169	20	26,858
	El Salvador	5	738,268	20	36,913
	Thailand	3	3,642,929	20	182,146
	Turkey	10	6,505,086	20	325,254
	Taiwan	2	2,080,511	20	104,025
	Ukraine	N/A	308,903	20	15,445
	United States of America	1	338,478,561	20	16,923,928
	Uruguay	4	912,164	20	45,608
	Venezuela	5	755,744	20	37,787
	Viet Nam	5	3,008,208	20	150,410
	Global	1	776,481,256	20	38,824,062
	South Africa	8	1,713,944	20	85,697

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