{"id":4168,"date":"2024-05-19T20:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2024-05-19T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T20:22:49","slug":"taylor-swift-spends-a-month-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-the-tortured-poets-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4168","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Spends a Month at No. 1 on Billboard 200 with \u2018The Tortured Poets Department\u2019"},"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>Plus: Gunna scores his sixth top 10-charting set with the arrival of &#8220;One of Wun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>\u00a0locks in its fourth consecutive week atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0(dated May 25), as the set earned 260,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 16 (down 8%), according to Luminate. The effort is the first album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 since Travis Scott\u2019s\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0led in its first four weeks last summer (Aug. 12-Sept. 2, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 260,000 units earned in\u00a0<em>Poets<\/em>\u2019 fourth week, the set scores the largest fourth-week for any album since Adele\u2019s\u00a0<em>25<\/em>\u00a0tallied 825,000 units in its fourth frame (chart dated Jan. 2, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, Swift adds her 73rd career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/most-weeks-at-no-1-billboard-200-taylor-swift-the-beatles\">record among soloists<\/a>&nbsp;(Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67). The total encompasses her 14 leaders. (She\u2019s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/gunna\/\">Gunna<\/a>&nbsp;lands his sixth top 10-charting effort as&nbsp;<em>One of Wun<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 2.<\/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 May 25, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on May 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>\u2019s fourth-week unit sum of 260,000, SEA units comprise 217,500 (down 5%, equaling 282.4 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs), traditional album sales comprise 41,000 (down 19%) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (up 18%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunna lands his sixth top 10-charting effort, all of which have reached the top five, as\u00a0<em>One of Wun<\/em>\u00a0enters at No. 2 with 91,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 90,000 (equaling 118.52 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs), while album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Gunna previously visited the top 10 with\u00a0<em>A Gift &amp; a Curse\u00a0<\/em>(No. 3, 2023),\u00a0<em>DS4Ever<\/em>\u00a0(No. 1, 2022),\u00a0<em>Wunna<\/em>\u00a0(No. 1, 2020),\u00a0<em>Drip or Drown<\/em>\u00a02 (No. 3, 2019) and\u00a0<em>Drip Harder<\/em>\u00a0(No. 4, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunna announced the new project on April 15, though he did not disclose the May 10 release date for the project until May 3. The album was released only as a streaming set and as a retail-available digital download. A CD and vinyl edition of the album are up for pre-order in Gunna\u2019s official webstore, though no release date for those configurations has been announced, and his store only notes they will both ship \u201cin 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 75,000 equivalent album units (up 7%); Future and Metro Boomin\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>We Don\u2019t Trust You<\/em>&nbsp;is also a non-mover at No. 4 (53,000; down 13%); and Wallen\u2019s earlier leader&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 7-5 (44,000; up 6%). Both Wallen albums likely post increases due to the publicity and promotion around the May 10 release of Post Malone\u2019s \u201cI Had Some Help,\u201d featuring Wallen \u2014 even though the song is not on either of the Wallen albums. (The track is expected to be on Post Malone\u2019s upcoming album.) Wallen last had two titles in the top five at the same time on the July 29, 2023-dated chart, when&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;were Nos. 2 and 5, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Kahan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Stick Season<\/em>\u00a0rises 9-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 41,000 equivalent album units (up 2%); SZA\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0climbs 10-7 (38,000; down 1%); Zach Bryan\u2019s self-titled former No. 1 bumps 12-8 (38,000; up 5%); Benson Boone\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fireworks &amp; Rollerblades<\/em>\u00a0glides 11-9 (just over 35,000; down 4%); and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>\u00a0dips 8-10 (35,000; down 14%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4168\" data-postid=\"4168\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4168 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Gunna scores his sixth top 10-charting set with the arrival of &#8220;One of Wun.&#8221; Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0The Tortured Poets Department\u00a0locks in its fourth consecutive week atop the\u00a0Billboard 200\u00a0(dated May 25), as the set earned 260,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 16 (down 8%), according to Luminate. 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