Republic Records reported
evermore sold one million copies in its first-week worldwide, marking Taylor’s third album in 16 months to do so, and her eighth consecutive studio album to achieve it. Aided by
evermore and
folklore, Taylor was 2020’s top streamed artist on
Amazon Music across all genres. The
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) named her the best-selling soloist and female artist of 2020, and second overall.
evermore debuted at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200 and topped the chart for four weeks. Unavailable in physical copies during its first week and supported only by digital music and streaming platforms, the album opened with 329,000 units, consisting of 220.49 million on-demand streams and 154,000 pure copies; it earned the biggest sales week for an album since her own
folklore, as well as since bundles and concert ticket offers stopped factoring.
evermore is Taylor’s second number-one album in 2020 and eighth consecutive number-one debut, making her the third woman with eight number-one albums, behind Barbra Streisand (11 number-ones) and Madonna (9). Alongside
folklore at No. 3, Taylor became the first woman in the chart’s history to simultaneously have two albums in the top-three. The gap between the number-one debuts of
folklore and
evermore was 140 days, breaking the
Guinness World Record for the shortest gap between two chart-topping albums by a woman on the
Billboard 200.
All of the album’s 15 tracks entered the
Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, generating five top-40 hits.
evermore became Taylor’s third album to chart all of its standard tracks together, after
Lover (2019) and
folklore. “willow” landed at No. 1, scoring her seventh number-one single in the US, second number-one hit in 2020, and the third number-one debut of her career. Despite its availability for the last two weeks of 2020 only,
evermore became one of the top 10 best-selling albums of 2020; its sister record,
folklore, was the top best-seller of 2020.
The album scored its fourth week atop the
Billboard 200 in June 2021, when it rose 73 spots to No. 1 with 202,000 units, following its vinyl release. 192,000 of that sum were pure sales, surpassing her own
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) for the largest sales week of 2021. It marked the 53rd chart-topping week of Taylor’s career, extending her record as the female act with the most weeks at No. 1 in
Billboard 200 history and the third-most weeks overall, only behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
evermore sold 102,000 vinyl copies in the same week, breaking the record for the biggest sales week for vinyl albums since
MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991 (she surpassed this record herself in November of the same year with
RED (Taylor’s Version), the re-recording of her 2012 album,
RED).