Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' Holds No. 1 on Billboard 200; Biggest 2nd Week Since 2015

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is holding its place at the summit of the Billboard 200 albums chart in its second week.

The album arrived at the top of the genre-blending charts last week with an eye-popping 2.61 million album units, the second biggest album debut week by album units in the SoundScan era.

Taylor Swift 'The Tortured Poets Department' Billboard 200

According to numbers gathered by Luminate and reported by Billboard, Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department raked in 439,000 album-equivalent units in its second week at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Although it recorded a decline of 83%, the project still earned more combined activity than any other album on the Billboard 200 chart. Of the album's staggering 439,000 units, streaming units comprise 330,000 units of 428.54 million streams, while traditional albums have 107,000 units, and track units are down to 2,000.

Swift's 439,000 units in its second week still put The Tortured Poets Department as the second-biggest album by units in 2024.

The last time that an album raked good numbers this big in its second week was in 2015 when Adele's 25 earned 1.162 million after earning 3.48 million in its first week, the biggest registered figure since the Billboard 200 began tracking weekly popularity based on overall units in December 2014.

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department's No. 1 debut, 2.61 million units, puts her behind Adele's 25 as the second biggest album debut by album units in the SoundScan era.

Billboard 200 Top 10

Swift's steady hold atop did not necessarily shake things up on the upper region of the Billboard 200.

Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time rose to No. 2, Future and Metro Boomin's We Don't Trust You fell to No. 3, and Beyonce's Cowboy Carter slipped to No. 4.

Meanwhile, Noah Kahan's Stick Season vaulted to No. 5. Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album returned to No. 6, Benson Boone's Fireworks & Rollerblades ascended to No. 7, Future and Metro Boomin's We Still Don't Trust You sank to No. 8, and SZA's SOS held No. 9.

Meanwhile, PARTYNEXTDOOR's PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) launched at No. 10, rounding out the most popular ten albums of the week based on album units.

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