Taylor Swift will land at #1 this week with her fourth consecutive album to debut with over 1m in first-week sales.

*Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 1.32m-1.36m SPS, 1.30m-1.34m Sales
Sam Smith (Capitol) 59-63k, 29-32k
Chris Brown (RCA) 51-54k, 9-11k
Maroon 5 (222/Interscope) 38-41k, 22-25k
Post Malone (Republic) 36-39k, 2-3k
21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin (Slaughter Gang/Epic) 35-38k, 1-2k
Ed Sheeran (Atlantic) 32-35k, 9-11k
Lil Uzi Vert (Generation Now/Atlantic) 29-32k, <1k
Blake Shelton (Warner Bros.) 28-31k, 24-27k
Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) 28-31k, 27-30k
*Evanescence (BMG) 27-30k, 24-27k
Imagine Dragons (Kidinakorner/Interscope) 26-29k, 8-9k
Now 64 (NOW) 23-26k, 23-26k
Lil Pump (Tha Lights Global/Warner Bros.) 22-25k, <1k
Khalid (Right Hand Music/RCA) 22-25k, 1-2k
Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Interscope) 22-25k, 2-3k
P!nk (RCA) 21-24k, 13-15k
Demi Lovato (Hollywood/Safehouse/Island) 18-21k, 4-5k
Gucci Mane (Atlantic) 17-20k, <1k
Future & Young Thug (Epic/300/Atlantic) 17-20k, <1k

*DEBUTS

In political news, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress that he forgot to mention his meetings with Russian emissaries prior to the election, but only because his drinking to forget was highly successful.