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In its second week of launch, Taylor Swift’s newest blockbuster album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, almost doubling the remainder of the Top 5 mixed.
One week after tallying the most important opening week since Adele in 2015 — promoting the equal of two.6 million albums within the United States — “The Tortured Poets Department” bought one other 439,000 album items, down 83 %, in line with Billboard, however nonetheless the very best second-week whole since Adele’s “25” virtually a decade in the past. Last month, Beyoncé’s newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” opened with 407,000 gross sales in its debut, then the most important gross sales week for any launch thus far this yr.
Whereas Swift’s whole final week included 1.9 million copies in conventional album gross sales — 859,000 for vinyl alone — and factored prematurely orders, that quantity dipped 94 % in week two, to 107,000. Instead, “The Tortured Poets Department” was consumed largely by way of digital streaming this time, with about 429 million performs of the album’s 31 tracks, down from a report 891 million the week prior.
Also on this week’s chart, the nation singer Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” launched in March 2023, jumps two spots to No. 2, with 69,000 items. Future and Metro Boomin’s “We Don’t Trust You,” the primary of the pair’s two latest albums (and the one that includes Kendrick Lamar dissing Drake on the hit single “Like That”), is No. 3 with 61,000 items. Rounding out the Top 5 is “Cowboy Carter” at No. 4 with 52,000 items and Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” at No. 5 with 41,000 items.
