Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division clocks a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 17), with 142,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending Aug. 8 (up 98%) in line with Luminate.
The final album to spend no less than 14 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, which logged 19 complete nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The final album by a lady to spend no less than 14 complete weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on prime in 2011-12.
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Ye (previously Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2 with 107,000 equal album items, marking the thirteenth Ye album to achieve the highest two (his entirety of charting releases), whereas Ty Dolla $ign ups his tally of prime 10s to a few.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). 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 official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Aug. 18, 2024-dated chart will probably be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Aug. 13. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously generally known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Tortured Poets Division’s 142,000 items earned within the week ending Aug. 8, album gross sales comprise 84,000 (up 606%), SEA items comprise 57,500 (equaling 75.43 million on-demand official streams of the set’s extensively accessible deluxe version’s 31 songs) and TEA items comprise 500. Poets is No. 2 on the High Streaming Albums chart (behind Wallen’s One Factor at a Time) and No. 1 on the High Album Gross sales chart.
Poets’ album gross sales within the newest monitoring week had been bolstered by a lot of drivers. The set was launched in 5 new digital album variants through Swift’s official webstore for a restricted time, every containing the usual album’s 16 songs, together with one unique bonus observe for $4.99 every (one album contained a “first draft telephone memo” model of “My Boy Solely Breaks His Favourite Toys,” whereas the opposite 4 contained one stay observe every from latest stops throughout her The Eras Tour). As well as, for a restricted time, the shop restocked three beforehand accessible digital album variants with unique bonus cuts, and a signed CD version. Her retailer additionally staged a short sale pricing promotion, whereby 16 beforehand accessible bodily variants of the album had been all discounted by 13% (as 13 is Swift’s favourite quantity).
With Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she provides her 83rd profession week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her file amongst soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most amongst soloists, with 67.) The entire encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for probably the most No. 1s amongst soloists.)
At No. 2 on the brand new Billboard 200, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 swoops in with 107,000 equal album items earned. The album was launched on Saturday (Aug. 3). It’s the long-awaited sequel to the chart-topping Vultures 1, which opened atop the Feb. 24-dated chart with 148,000 items. Of the brand new album’s first-week determine, album gross sales comprise 60,500 in album gross sales, SEA items comprise 46,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the usual set’s songs) and TEA items comprise 500 items. Vultures 2 additionally bows at No. 6 on the High Streaming Albums chart and No. 2 on the High Album Gross sales chart.
The opening gross sales of Vultures 2 had been aided by its availability throughout a extensively accessible commonplace specific version, and a late-in-the-week-released clear version (on Aug. 8). Ye’s official webstore additionally issued 5 further specific digital album variants on Wednesday (Aug. 7) and Thursday (Aug. 8), every containing the usual album’s 16 tracks, together with one unique studio bonus observe per album. All digital albums on Ye’s webstore bought for $5 every. The Vultures 2 album, each clear and specific, was additionally discounted to $4.99 within the iTunes Retailer within the monitoring week.
Vultures 2 was initially slated for launch on March 8.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs to a brand new excessive, because it rises from its prior No. 4 greatest to No. 3 with 64,000 equal album items earned (up 20%). The album’s ascent comes after Roan’s rousing reception at Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.
Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time dips 2-4 with 63,000 equal album items (down 2%), whereas Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Gentle is regular at No. 5 with 57,000 items (up 8%).
Charli XCX’s Brat bolts 9-6 with 56,000 equal album items earned (up 39%), following the discharge of the album’s “Guess” remix with Eilish on Aug. 1.
Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene falls 3-7 (51,000 equal album items; down 16%), Wallen’s former chief Harmful: The Double Album rises 11-8 (simply over 37,000; down lower than 1%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season lifts 10-9 (just a little greater than 37,000; down 5%) and the Twisters: The Album soundtrack drops 8-10 (37,000; down 16%).
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