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Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” is the No. 1 album as soon as once more, main the Billboard 200 chart for a seventh straight time.
Since it got here out in April with historic numbers — breaking data for streaming and vinyl gross sales, and posting the largest opening week of Swift’s profession — “Tortured Poets” has been unstoppable, whilst its efficiency has progressively cooled. In latest weeks it has held off challenges from Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa, and this week it blocks the most recent from the Ok-pop boy band Ateez.
In its newest week out, “Tortured Poets” had the equal of 148,000 gross sales within the United States, together with 157 million streams and 27,000 copies bought as an entire package deal, in response to the monitoring service Luminate. Since its launch, the album has had the equal of about 4.3 million gross sales and simply shy of two.5 billion streams within the United States alone.
Of the 14 albums that Swift has despatched to No. 1 in her profession — going again to “Fearless,” her second LP, again in 2008 — “Tortured Poets” has now had the longest consecutive stretch on the high, exceeding “Folklore,” which in 2020 spent its first six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s flagship LP chart. (Several of Swift’s albums, together with “Folklore,” have had extra turns at No. 1 total, however not in a row.)
Also this week, Ateez’s “Golden Hour: Part.1,” a six-track “mini-album,” opens in second place with 131,000 equal gross sales, largely from its recognition on CD and vinyl. “Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going” by Shaboozey, a singer-songwriter who was featured on Beyoncé’s newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” opens at No. 5 with the equal of fifty,000.
Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” falls to No. 3 after spending its first two weeks in second place, and Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” is No. 4 in its 67th week on the chart.
