Taylor Swift’s — The Tortured Poets Department continues its dominance on the Billboard 200 chart, claiming its 14th week at No. 1 on the chart dated August 17. The album earned 142,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending August 8, marking a significant 98% increase according to data from Luminate.
The last album to achieve at least 14 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which spent a total of 19 non consecutive weeks at the top between March 2023 and March of this year. Among female artists, the last to spend at least 14 weeks at No. 1 was Adele with her album 21, which accumulated 24 non consecutive weeks at the top in 2011-12.
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Elsewhere in the top 10, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign debut at No. 2 with their collaborative album Vultures 2, earning 107,000 equivalent album units. This marks Ye’s 13th album to reach the top two and Ty Dolla $ign’s third top 10 album.
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The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums in the U.S. based on a combination of album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). One equivalent album unit equals one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported streams (or 1,250 paid/subscription streams) of the songs from an album. The full chart will be published on Billboard’s website on August 13.
The Tortured Poets Department‘s success this week was bolstered by several factors, including the release of five new digital album variants available exclusively through Swift’s official webstore, each priced at $4.99 and featuring one exclusive bonus track. The store also restocked three previously available digital variants and offered a signed CD edition, alongside a 13% discount on 16 physical variants of the album. These promotions contributed to the album’s 606% increase in sales, with album sales totaling 84,000 units, SEA units totaling 57,500 (equivalent to 75.43 million on-demand streams), and TEA units at 500.
With this achievement, The Tortured Poets Department becomes Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200, and she extends her record for the most weeks at No. 1 among solo artists with 83 total weeks. This ties her with Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums among soloists, each with 14.
At No. 2, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts with 107,000 equivalent album units. The album was released on August 3 and is the follow-up to their chart-topping Vultures 1, which debuted at No. 1 on the February 24-dated chart with 148,000 units. Vultures 2‘s first-week figure includes 60,500 in album sales, 46,000 SEA units (equivalent to 50.44 million on-demand streams), and 500 TEA units. The album also debuts at No. 6 on the Top Streaming Albums chart and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess reaches a new peak at No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units, a 20% increase, following her well-received performance at Lollapalooza on August 1.
Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drops from No. 2 to No. 4 with 63,000 units, and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft holds steady at No. 5 with 57,000 units, an 8% increase.
Charli XCX’s Brat climbs from No. 9 to No. 6 with 56,000 units, a 39% increase following the release of the album’s “Guess” remix with Billie Eilish on August 1.
Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene falls from No. 3 to No. 7 with 51,000 units, while Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rises from No. 11 to No. 8 with just over 37,000 units. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season lifts from No. 10 to No. 9 with a little more than 37,000 units, and the Twisters: The Album soundtrack rounds out the top 10, dropping from No. 8 to No. 10 with 37,000 units.
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