{"id":3835,"date":"2023-07-23T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2023-07-23T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T19:08:00","slug":"speak-now-taylors-version-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard\u00a0200"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>It&#8217;s the pop superstar&#8217;s first re-recorded album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s third re-recorded album,&nbsp;<em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>, spends a second week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated July 29). It\u2019s the first time a re-recorded Swift album has spent its first two weeks at No. 1. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/pop\/\">pop<\/a>&nbsp;superstar\u2019s re-recorded&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Red<\/em>&nbsp;each bowed at No. 1 in 2021, and then fell from the top slot in their second frames \u2014 though the former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/taylor-swift-fearless-taylors-version-billboard-200-return-number-1\/\">returned<\/a>&nbsp;to No. 1 six months later after its release on vinyl and signed CD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0earned 121,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 20 (down 83%), according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift leads a quiet top 10, where the region hosts zero debuts for the first time in six months. The top 10 was last absent of debuts on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-sos-number-one-billboard-200-sixth-week-1235203694\/\">Jan. 28-dated list<\/a>, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\/\">SZA<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;led the chart for a sixth week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nbsp;multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 29, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday (July 25). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u2019s 121,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 20, SEA units comprise 73,000 (down 65%, equaling 95.6 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 22 songs), album sales comprise 47,000 (down 91%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 72%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a second week in a row, Swift has four albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. A week ago, she became the first living artist to chart&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-four-top-ten-albums-billboard-200-chart-1235372567\/\">four albums in the top 10<\/a>&nbsp;at the same time since 1966. On the latest chart, those same four sets (all former No. 1s) are still in the top 10, as&nbsp;<em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;is joined by&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>&nbsp;(rising 5-4 with 51,000 units; down 7%),&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>&nbsp;(7-6 with 44,000; down 2%) and&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;(a non-mover at No. 10 with 34,000; up 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0is stationary at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 105,000 equivalent album units (up 2%).\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0has earned in excess of 100,000 equivalent album units in all 20 of its chart weeks. It extends its own record as the album with the most weeks of 100,000-plus units since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December of 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/peso-pluma\/\">Peso Pluma<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>G\u00e9nesis<\/em>\u00a0returns to its peak, rising 4-3 (55,000 equivalent album units; down 5%); Wallen\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0climbs 6-5 (48,000; up 3%); SZA\u2019s\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0ascends 8-7 (43,000; down 1%);\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lil-uzi-vert\/\">Lil Uzi Vert<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>Pink Tape<\/em>\u00a0dips 3-8 (40,000; down 34%); and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/gunna\/\">Gunna<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Gift &amp; a Curse\u00a0<\/em>is steady at No. 9 (nearly 40,000; down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3835\" data-postid=\"3835\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3835 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the pop superstar&#8217;s first re-recorded album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1. 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