{"id":4213,"date":"2024-07-07T23:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2024-07-07T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T23:03:50","slug":"taylor-swift-ties-career-best-with-11th-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-the-tortured-poets-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Ties Career-Best with 11th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With \u2018The Tortured Poets\u00a0Department\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: Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Megan<\/em>&nbsp;debuts in the top three, while Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>&nbsp;gallops back to the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>&nbsp;hits an 11th consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;(dated July 13) \u2014 tying&nbsp;<em>1989<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;as her longest-leading No. 1 albums. The last album by a woman to spend 11 weeks at No. 1 was&nbsp;<em>1989<\/em>, which notched 11 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2014-15. If&nbsp;<em>Poets<\/em>&nbsp;reaches a 12th week at No. 1, it will be the first album by a woman with at least 12 weeks at No. 1 since Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>21<\/em>&nbsp;rang up 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>&nbsp;earned 114,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 4 (down 1%), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated May 4 and has yet to yield the No. 1 slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>&nbsp;is the first album by a woman to spend 11 weeks in a row at No. 1 since the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to&nbsp;<em>The Bodyguard<\/em>&nbsp;strung together 13 straight weeks at No. 1 (of its total 20 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list) from December 1992 to March 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/megan-thee-stallion\/\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>&nbsp;collects her sixth top 10 as&nbsp;<em>Megan<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 3, while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/beyonce\/\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>&nbsp;gallops 50-10 following the release of a deluxe vinyl edition.<\/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 13, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on July 9. For all chart&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/news\/\">news<\/a>, 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 114,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 78,000 (down 10% \u2014 it\u2019s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for an 11th week; its SEA units equal 102.09 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe edition\u2019s 31 songs), album sales comprise 35,000 (up 27%; it\u2019s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a fifth nonconsecutive week) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 22%). The album\u2019s sales grew 27% in the tracking week thanks largely to two new CD variants of the set that shipped to customers. The two CDs, which were sold exclusively in Swift\u2019s webstore, were briefly available to pre-order in early June for $7.99 each. Both CDs contain the standard album\u2019s 16 songs and an acoustic bonus track (one includes \u201cFortnight,\u201d featuring Post Malone, and one includes \u201cFresh Out the Slammer\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>&nbsp;matches Whitney Houston\u2019s 1987 album&nbsp;<em>Whitney<\/em>&nbsp;as the only two albums by women to spend their first 11 weeks at No. 1. All 11 of the latter\u2019s total weeks at No. 1 were from its debut atop the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just two other albums have spent at least their first 11 weeks at No. 1: Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;(first 12 weeks at No. 1, of its total 19 weeks at No. 1 in 2023-24) and Stevie Wonder\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Songs in the Key of Life<\/em>&nbsp;(first 13 weeks at No. 1, of its total 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1976). (For context, today it\u2019s common for albums to debut at No. 1. However, before 1991, when the Billboard 200 began utilizing Luminate\u2019s electronically monitored tracking information, only six albums debuted at No. 1, including&nbsp;<em>Whitney<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Songs in the Key of Life<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift is only the third act with three or more albums to spend 11 or more weeks at No. 1, following Whitney Houston (her self-titled album with 14 weeks in 1986,&nbsp;<em>Whitney<\/em>&nbsp;with 11 in 1987 and&nbsp;<em>The Bodyguard<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack with 20 in 1992-93) and The Beatles (<em>Meet the Beatles!<\/em>&nbsp;with 11 in 1964,&nbsp;<em>A Hard Day\u2019s Night<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack with 14 in 1964,&nbsp;<em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>&nbsp;with 15 in 1967 and&nbsp;<em>Abbey Road<\/em>&nbsp;with 11 in 1969-70).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift adds her 80th 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>. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She\u2019s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;rises 3-2 with 74,000 equivalent album units (up 1%). It\u2019s also the last album to spend at least 11 weeks at No. 1, prior to&nbsp;<em>Poets<\/em>. Wallen\u2019s album logged 19 total weeks at No. 1 in 2023-24 (spending its first 12 in the top slot). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Thee Stallion scores her sixth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Megan<\/em>&nbsp;enters at No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. That marks the biggest debut, by units, for any rap album released by a woman in 2024. It\u2019s also the first top 10-charting rap set by a woman released this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the album\u2019s 64,000 units earned in its first week, SEA units comprise 47,000 (equaling 62.67 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 18 songs), album sales comprise 16,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000. The album&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/megan-thee-stallion-megan-album-release-date-atlanta-1235698659\/\">was announced<\/a>&nbsp;on June 2 and was preceded by a trio of charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100: \u201cCobra\u201d (peaking at No. 32 last November), \u201cHiss\u201d (No. 1, February) and \u201cBoa\u201d (No. 39, May). The set\u2019s sales were aided by its availability across three CD variants (all with the same audio content, just different covers; all exclusively sold in the artist\u2019s webstore) and five digital download album variants (a standard widely available edition; one exclusive to Amazon, with a bonus track; two with alternate covers; and one with a printed digital signature on its cover from Megan Thee Stallion. The latter three were exclusive to the artist\u2019s webstore.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 (63,000 equivalent album units earned; down 10%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/chappell-roan\/\">Chappell Roan<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess<\/em>&nbsp;reaches the top five for the first time, rising 6-5 (60,000; down 2%). With Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Eilish and Chappell Roan at Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, there are four albums by women, or women-led acts, in the top five for the first time in over a year. It last happened on the March 25, 2023-dated list, when the all-women group TWICE was No. 2 with&nbsp;<em>Ready to Be<\/em>, followed by Miley Cyrus\u2019&nbsp;<em>Endless Summer Vacation<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 3), SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4) and Karol G\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Ma\u00f1ana Ser\u00e1 Bonito<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 5. (Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;was No. 1 that week.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallen\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;rises 7-6 on the new Billboard 200 (44,000 equivalent album units; up 1%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/peso-pluma\/\">Peso Pluma<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>\u00c9xodo&nbsp;<\/em>falls 5-7 (just over 40,000; down 37%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/shaboozey\/\">Shaboozey<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Where I\u2019ve Been, Isn\u2019t Where I\u2019m Going<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 10-8 (40,000; down 1%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/noah-kahan\/\">Noah Kahan<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Stick Season<\/em>&nbsp;rises 11-9 (39,000; up less than 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>&nbsp;charges back into the top 10 (50-10) after a deluxe edition of the album was released on vinyl. The set surges with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (up 133%), with 24,000 of that sum in traditional album sales (up 1,673%). Vinyl sales comprise a little over 23,000 of that figure (up 3,551%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4213\" data-postid=\"4213\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4213 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Megan Thee Stallion&#8217;s&nbsp;Megan&nbsp;debuts in the top three, while Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s&nbsp;Cowboy Carter&nbsp;gallops back to the top 10. Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;The Tortured Poets Department&nbsp;hits an 11th consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;(dated July 13) \u2014 tying&nbsp;1989&nbsp;and&nbsp;Fearless&nbsp;as her longest-leading No. 1 albums. 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