{"id":4721,"date":"2025-10-26T21:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:51:53","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-notches-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4721","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019 Notches Third 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>Plus, Tame Impala&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Deadbeat<\/em>\u00a0makes top a five debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>&nbsp;adds a third week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart (dated Nov. 1), with 194,000 equivalent album units earned (down 43%) in the United States in the week ending Oct. 23, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>&nbsp;is only the second album in 2025 to spend its first three weeks at No. 1, following&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>, which spent its first eight weeks atop the list (of its total 12 at No. 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in the top 10 of the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tame-impala\/\">Tame Impala<\/a>\u00a0claims its third top five-charted album, as\u00a0<em>Deadbeat<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on 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, Nov. 1, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday (Oct. 28). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u2019s 194,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 156,000 (down 34%, equaling 200.68 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks \u2014 it ranks at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a third week), album sales comprise 38,000 (down 63% \u2014 it\u2019s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a third week) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 42%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chart-topping&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 (96,000 equivalent album units, down 8%) and Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>&nbsp;is stationary at No. 3 (83,000, up 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tame Impala\u2019s first full-length studio album in five years,&nbsp;<em>Deadbeat<\/em>, debuts at No. 4 with 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, pure album sales comprise 37,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 33,000 (equaling 41.72 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks; it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Deadbeat<\/em>&nbsp;is the third top five (and top 10) project for Tame Impala, following 2020\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Show Rush<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 3) and 2015\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Currents<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new album was preceded by a trio of charted songs: \u201cEnd of Summer\u201d (No. 20 on Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs, No. 7 on Hot Dance\/Pop Songs), \u201cLoser\u201d (No. 15 on Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs) and \u201cDracula\u201d (No. 7 on Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs, No. 19 on Alternative Airplay, No. 55 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Deadbeat<\/em>\u2019s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl variants and five deluxe CD boxed sets (containing a copy of CD and branded merch), alongside a standard CD, cassette and digital download album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 5 on the latest Billboard 200 (43,000 equivalent album units, down 5%) and Cardi B\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>AM I THE DRAMA?<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-6 (40,000, down 21%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Dean\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Art of Loving<\/em>&nbsp;is pushed down 6-7, though it gains 1% in its fourth week on the chart (and fourth week inside the top 10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 8 (31,000 equivalent album units, down 2%), Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;rises 10-9 (30,000, down 3%) and Alex Warren\u2019s&nbsp;<em>You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid<\/em>&nbsp;dips 9-10 (nearly 30,000, down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4721\" data-postid=\"4721\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4721 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Tame Impala&#8217;s\u00a0Deadbeat\u00a0makes top a five debut. 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