Taylor Swift 'The Tortured Poets Department' Marks New Milestone With 4 Weeks Atop Billboard 200

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department is spending another week at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart.

The Tortured Poets Department has officially spent a month or four weeks at No. 1, making it the first album in 2024 to have spent its first four weeks atop.

Billboard reported that the album earned 260,000 equivalent album units in its fourth week. With the album's tremendous feat, it now holds the record for having the largest fourth week for any album since Adele's 25 in 2015, which earned 825,000 units in January 2016.

Streaming bolstered the huge chunk of The Tortured Poets Department's reign at the top with 217,500 units or 282.4 million streams. Meanwhile, album sales are still high, with 41,000 units, while track units are 1,500.

With Swift's additional week at the top, she also widened the gap between her and Elvis Presley for the soloist with most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The late King of Rock and Roll has spent 67 weeks, while Swift has already surpassed him with 73 weeks across her 14 No. 1 albums. Swift has to release many more albums or spend more time at the summit if she wants to surpass The Beatles in 132 weeks, the most for all musicians combined.

Swift debuted The Tortured Poets Department at No. 1 with 2.61 million units on the Billboard 200 chart, putting her behind Adele's 25 as the second biggest album debut by album units in the SoundScan era.

The global pop star kicked off the Europe leg of The Eras Tour in Nanterre, Paris, with a revamped setlist that included songs from The Tortured Poets Department.

Swift has included "But Daddy I Love Him," "So High School," "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me," "Down Bad," "Fortnight," "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" and "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart."

Capital FM reported that Swift performed "My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys" and "The Alchemy" for her acoustic set at her Paris concerts and "Guilty As Sin?" and "How Did It End?" as her surprise songs for her recently concluded Stockholm concerts.

After her Paris and Stockholm concerts, Swift is headed to Lisbon, Portugal, for her two-night concert at the Estádio da Luz on May 24 and 25, 2024.

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