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For two months now, Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” has dominated the Billboard album chart, keeping off challenges from Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and the Ok-pop group Ateez, usually with the assistance of particular “variations” that includes additional tracks.
This week, “Tortured Poets” logs its eighth consecutive time at No. 1, with the equal of 128,000 gross sales within the United States, together with 136 million streams and 23,000 copies bought as a full package deal, in response to the monitoring service Luminate.
Although two of Swift’s earlier albums have posted extra instances at No. 1 general — “Fearless” and “1989” had 11 every — none has held the highest spot for as many weeks in a row. Consecutive runs of eight weeks or longer are uncommon on the chart. The final releases to take action have been each by Morgan Wallen: “One Thing at a Time,” which logged 12 final 12 months, and “Dangerous: The Double Album,” with 10 in 2021. For one other instance it’s important to return to Drake’s “Views,” which led the chart for 9 straight weeks at No. 1 in 2016.
Also this week, Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” is No. 2 in its fourth week out, whereas “Brat,” the newest from the British pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX, opens in third place with the equal of 82,000 gross sales. Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” holds at No. 4 and Bon Jovi’s newest, “Forever,” begins at No. 5, helped by collectible vinyl and CD editions.
