Taylor Swift’s ‘Poets’ Tallies 10th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department achieves a 10th consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated July 6). With a 10th week atop the list, Swift has now collected 3 albums with at least 10 weeks at No. 1, as it joins 1989 and Fearless, every single with 11 weeks on prime.

Swift is just the fifth act with 3 or extra albums to devote 10 or extra weeks at No. 1, standing alongside Whitney Houston (3 albums, in 1986-93), The Beatles (4, 1964-67), The Kingston Trio (3, 1959-69) and Elvis Presley (4, 1956-61). Swift is the only act with 3 albums to devote at least 10 weeks at No. 1 this century.

The Tortured Poets Department earned 115,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending June 27 (down 9%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated May 4 and has however to relinquish the No. 1 slot.

Swift adds her 79th profession week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record amongst soloists. (Presley has the second-most amongst soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s amongst soloists.)

Also in the prime 10 of the most recent Billboard 200, Gracie Abrams lands her 1st prime 10-charting set and ideal week ever by units, as The Secret of Us bows at No. 2. Plus, Peso Pluma captures his second prime 5-charting work with the No. 5 arrival of Éxodo.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most common albums of the week in the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals a single album sale, or 10 person tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 6, 2024-dated chart will be posted in complete on Billboard‘s web site on July 2. For all chart news, stick to @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, formerly recognized as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 115,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 87,000 (down 7% — it is No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a 10 th week its SEA units equal 113.21 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 28,000 (down 16%) and TEA units comprise much less than 1,000 (up 24%).

As noted above, Swift is the fifth act with 3 or extra albums to devote 10 or extra weeks at No. 1. She joins Whitney Houston (her self-titled album with 14 weeks in 1986, Whitney with 11 in 1987 and The Bodyguard soundtrack with 20 weeks in 1992-93) The Beatles (Meet the Beatles! with 11 in 1964, A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack with 14 in 1964, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with 15 in 1967 and Abbey Road with 11 in 1969-70) The Kingston Trio (The Kingston Trio at Large with 15 in 1959, Sold Out with 12 in 1960 and String Along with 10 in 1960) and Elvis Presley (his self-titled album with 10 in 1956, the Loving You soundtrack with 10 in 1957, the G.I. Blues soundtrack with 15 in 1960-61 and the Blue Hawaii soundtrack with 20 in 1961-62).

As The Tortured Poets Department has spent its 1st 10 weeks at No. 1, it joins just 4 other albums that have accomplished that identical feat: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time (1st 12 weeks at No. 1, of its total 19 weeks at No. 1 in 2023-24) Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (all 10 of its weeks at No. 1 have been from its debut atop the chart, 2021) Whitney Houston’s Whitney (all 11 of its weeks at No. 1 have been from its debut atop the chart, 1987) and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (1st 13 weeks at No. 1, of its total 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1976). (For context, right now it is typical for albums to debut at No. 1. However, just before 1991, when the Billboard 200 started using Luminate’s electronically monitored tracking facts, only six albums debuted at No. 1, such as Whitney and Songs in the Key of Life.)

The Tortured Poets Department is the 1st album by a lady to devote 10 weeks in a row at No. 1 considering the fact that 2012, when Adele’s 21 strung collectively 10 straight weeks at No. 1 (of its total 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list) that January-March.

With 10 weeks at No. 1, The Tortured Poets Department is a single week away from tying Swift’s individual record for her most weeks atop the list, as each 1989 and Fearless every single notched 11 weeks at No. 1.

In the 21st century, only 11 albums such as The Tortured Poets Department have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Swift has 3 of them (1989 and Fearless, every single with 11, and Poets with 10), Adele (21, with 24, and 25, with 10) and Wallen (One Thing at a Time, 19, and Dangerous: The Double Album, 10) every single have two and though Bad Bunny (Un Verano Sin Ti, 13), Drake (Views, 13), the Frozen soundtrack (13) and SZA (SOS, 10) represent the rest of the No. 1s with 10 or extra weeks on prime considering the fact that the turn of the century.

Gracie Abrams scores her highest-charting album, and 1st prime 10, on the Billboard 200 as her second complete-length studio set, The Secret of Us, debuts at No. 2 with 89,000 equivalent album units earned, also her ideal week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 50,000 (her ideal sales week ever — it is the prime-promoting album of the week and debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 38,000 (equaling 47.57 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 13 songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Abrams previously charted with her debut complete-length work, Good Riddance, which debuted and peaked at No. 52 in March of 2023. The current Grammy nominee for ideal new artist created her Billboard Hot 100 songs chart arrival later in 2023, when Noah Kahan’s “Everywhere, Everything,” featuring Abrams, hit No. 79 in December. On the June 22, 2024-dated chart, the new album’s “Close to You” debuted at No. 49.

After Good Riddance debuted, Abrams joined her pal Swift as an opening act for 29 dates of the latter’s stadium-filling The Eras Tour among April and August 2023. She’ll rejoin Swift as an opening act come October, when The Eras Tour returns to the U.S. and Canada, staying on by way of the trek’s final show in Vancouver on Dec. 8.

During the new album’s release week, Abrams joined Swift onstage in London (June 23) at Wembley Stadium through The Eras Tour for the 1st reside functionality of the album’s “Us,” featuring Swift.

The 1st-week sales of The Secret of Us was supported by the album’s availability across seven vinyl variants (all colour variations, two of which have been signed and exclusive to Abrams’ webstore, as effectively as a single that was exclusive to Target with an option cover). Vinyl sales accounted for 41,000 of the album’s total sales for the week — her ideal week on vinyl, and the sixth-biggest week for a vinyl set in 2024.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 4-3 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (up much less than 1%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft dips 2-4 with 70,000 (down 17%).

Peso Pluma lands his second prime 5-charting album as Éxodo enters at No. 5 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise basically all of that sum, equaling 87.51 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 24 songs. (Album sales and TEA units comprise much less than 1,000 units combined the album was obtainable to buy only as a digital download.) The guest-laden work consists of collaborations with Anitta, Cardi B, DJ Snake, Eslabon Armado, Junior H, Quavo and Rich the Kid, amongst quite a few other individuals.

The good results story of Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess continues to add new chapters, as the album rises 8-6 (a new peak) on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (up 32%), a new single-week higher in units for the artist. Of that sum, album sales comprise 15,000 (up 87%, her ideal sales week however) and SEA units comprise 46,000 (up 21%, equaling 60.5 million official on-demand streams of the set’s 14 songs — its ideal streaming week however).

Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album bumps 10-7 on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%). Ariana Grande’s chart-topping Eternal Sunshine returns to the prime 10, vaulting 23-8 with 41,000 units (up 87% thanks largely to sales of a signed CD sold exclusively in Grande’s webstore for a restricted time).

Rounding out the prime 10 of the new Billboard 200 are Charli XCX’s Brat (holding at No. 9 with almost 41,000 down 8%) and Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going (increasing 12-10 with virtually 41,000 up 1%).

With Swift, Abrams, Eilish, Chappell Roan, Grande and Charli XCX at Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9, respectively, there are six albums by girls in the prime 10 for the 1st time considering the fact that the Jan. 27-dated chart. That week, Kali Uchis, Nicki Minaj, SZA and Swift have been in the prime 10, with Swift holding 3 titles in the area. Further, this week marks the 1st time there are at least six unique girls (or girls-led acts) in the prime 10 in almost 5 years. It final occurred on the Sept. 21, 2019-dated chart, with Swift’s Lover (No. 1), Melanie Martinez’s K-12 (No. 3), Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You (No. 6), Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (No. 8), Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (No. 9) and all-girls band The Highwomen’s self-titled album (No. 10).

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