Taylor Swift’s ‘Poets’ Logs seventeenth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division notches a seventeenth week at No. 1 at the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 21), because the set holds atop the record after speeding again to No. 1 per week in the past after its deluxe Anthology version was once launched on CD and vinyl completely at Goal. Within the monitoring week finishing Dec. 12, the album earned 240,000 similar album devices (down 41%) within the U.S., consistent with Luminate, with over 80% of that sum pushed through bodily album gross sales.

Additionally within the most sensible 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 chart, ROSÉ’s debut solo album rosie bows at No. 3, TWICE’s Technique enters at No. 4 and Sabrina Chippie’s vacation set Fruitcake reenters the chart at No. 10 for its first week within the most sensible 10, after its extensive bodily unencumber.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. according to multi-metric intake as measured in similar album devices, compiled through Luminate. Gadgets include album gross sales, observe similar albums (TEA) and streaming similar albums (SEA). Each and every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand authentic audio and video streams generated through songs from an album. The brand new Dec. 21, 2024-dated chart might be posted in complete on Billboard‘s site on Tuesday (Dec. 17). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Division’s 240,000 similar album devices earned within the week finishing Dec. 12, conventional album gross sales include 201,000 (down 45%, it holds at No. 1 on Most sensible Album Gross sales for a tenth nonconsecutive week), SEA devices include 39,000 (up 6%; equaling 51.04 million on-demand authentic streams of the set’s songs; it falls 9-10 on Most sensible Streaming Albums) and TEA devices include a negligible sum (up 27%).

TTPD was once to start with launched on April 19 as a regular 16-song virtual obtain album, in addition to in an array of 17-song bodily configurations. Two hours after the album dropped, Swift issued an expanded 31-song version of the album, dubbed The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology, which added 15 further songs. Then again, the Anthology version was once most effective to be had as a virtual obtain and streaming set till Nov. 29, when its CD and vinyl editions changed into in the stores completely via Goal. The Goal CD and vinyl moreover boast 4 bonus acoustic tracks (that have been prior to now launched in different selection variations of the album).

For the reason that Billboard 200 started publishing on a typical, weekly foundation in March 1956, Poets is most effective the 18th album to have spent a minimum of 17 weeks at No. 1, of greater than 1,200 leaders. The ultimate album to spend a minimum of 17 weeks at No. 1 was once Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, which logged 19 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The ultimate album through a girl to spend a minimum of 17 weeks at No. 1 previous to Poets was once Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on most sensible in 2011-12.

Kendrick Lamar’s former chief GNX is a non-mover at No. 2 on the newest Billboard 200 with 125,000 similar album devices earned (down 24%). It stays at No. 1 on Most sensible Streaming Albums for a 3rd instantly week.

ROSÉ’s solo debut album, rosie, launches at No. 3 with 102,000 similar album devices earned. Pop crew BLACKPINK, of which she is a member, has logged a couple of most sensible 10s, together with the chart-topping BORN PINK in 2022.

Of the 102,000 similar album devices earned through rosie in its opening week, album gross sales include 70,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Most sensible Album Gross sales), SEA devices include 31,000 (equaling 43.85 million on-demand authentic streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 17 on Most sensible Streaming Albums) and TEA devices include 1,000. The set’s first-week gross sales have been reinforced through its availability throughout greater than 15 bodily variants of the album throughout CD and vinyl editions, many together with collectible ephemera (some randomized).

The album was once led through the one “APT.” with Bruno Mars, which debuted and peaked at No. 8 at the Billboard Sizzling 100. It debuted and peaked at No. 2 at the Streaming Songs chart, and has reached the highest 30 on Pop Airplay, Grownup Pop Airplay and the all-format Radio Songs charts.

TWICE captures its 6th overall and consecutive most sensible 10-charting set at the Billboard 200 as STRATEGY debuts at No. 4 with 88,000 similar album devices earned. It’s the second one most sensible 10 for the crowd in 2024, following their first chart-topper, With YOU-th (March 9-dated chart). Of the brand new set’s first-week devices, album gross sales include 81,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Most sensible Album Gross sales), SEA devices include 6,500 (equaling 8.86 million on-demand authentic streams of the set’s songs) and TEA devices include not up to 500 devices. The album’s first-week gross sales have been aided through its availability throughout greater than 15 CD and vinyl editions, all inclusive of collectible paper ephemera (some randomized).

Sabrina Chippie’s chart-topping Brief n’ Candy is stable at No. 5 at the Billboard 200 (75,000 similar album devices earned; up 10%); the Depraved movie soundtrack falls 3-6 (74,000; down 31%); Michael Bublé’s former chief Christmas is a non-mover at No. 7 (62,000; up 10%); Bing Crosby’s Final Christmas hits a brand new top, emerging 9-8 (56,000; up 13%); and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Cushy slips 6-9 (56,000; down 6%).

Chippie captures a 2nd album within the most sensible 10, and the second one most sensible 10 of her occupation, as her vacation effort Fruitcake re-enters the chart at No. 10 (a brand new top) following its extensive bodily unencumber on CD, vinyl and cassette on Dec. 6. Within the monitoring week finishing Dec. 12, Fruitcake earned 54,000 similar album devices (up 1,040%), with album gross sales comprising 39,000 (up 27,326%; it debuts at No. 4 on Most sensible Album Gross sales) and SEA devices comprising 15,000 (up 210%, equaling 19.65 million on-demand authentic streams of set’s songs).

Fruitcake was once to start with launched in November 2023 as a virtual obtain album for acquire and thru streaming products and services. It had a restricted vinyl unencumber, completely via Chippie’s authentic webstore in December 2023. On Dec. 6, the album changed into broadly to be had on CD, cassette and 3 vinyl variants (together with one unique to Goal).

Chippie is the 6th artist in 2024 to have a minimum of two albums within the most sensible 10 on the identical time. In the past this 12 months, Zach Bryan, Long run, Metro Boomin, Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen all notched a couple of tasks within the most sensible 10 similtaneously.

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