Taylor Swift Dominates Billboard Charts: 'Midnights' Week 2 Sales Greater than Top 7 Combined?

Taylor Swift is on a roll and is not stopping anytime soon.

After a massive rollout of her latest album, "Midnights," the project debuted at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart; it marks Swift's biggest opening week of her career at around 1.578 album-equivalent units, attributing a million units from pure album sales alone.

On its second week on the charts, the album holds down the fort as it still remains at the summit of the genre-blending album charts.

According to Luminate, "Midnights" generated 342,000 album equivalent units on last week's tracking week, its second week since it opened on Oct. 21, 2022.

Of the 342,000 are 114,000 pure album sales, 224,000 streaming equivalent units, and 4,000 track equivalent units.,

Billboard reports that "Midnights'" second-week sales hold the third spot of this year's biggest single-week debut. The project's first week tops the ranking, followed by Harry Styles' "Harry's House" at 521,000, and lastly, the "Midnights'" second week with 342,000. It has eclipsed Beyonce's "Renaissance" by 10,000 units as it debuted at 332,000 last Jul. 29, 2022.

The publication also noted the massive second-week sales had outshone most of the albums in the Billboard 200 Top 10.

Lil Baby's "It's Only Me" retains at No. 2 with 81,000 units, Bad Bunny's opus, "Un Verano Sin Ti," trails behind with 62,000, and The Beatles' "Revolver," which rebounded to No. 4 earned 54,000.

Morgan Wallen's "Dangerous: The Double Album" is at No. 5 with 41,000 units, while The Weekend's "The Highlights" ranks No. 6 with 41,000, as Baby Keem's 37,000 units-strong vaulted to No. 7 from No. 105 last week.

With the six albums combined album units, it would only amount to 316,000 album-equivalent units, 8,000 units short of overtaking Taylor Swift's second-week records.

Over the Billboard Hot 100 charts, Swift dominates most of the Top 10 with four songs on the chart solely from "Midnights."

"Anti-Hero," which recently got a remixed version from Jack Antonoff earlier today, is steady at the No. 1 spot. Meanwhile, Rihanna's "Wakanda Forever" anthem "Lift Me Up" soared to No. 2 in its opening week.

Meanwhile, Swift's song to beau Joe Alwyn, "Lavander Haze," sits at No. 6, with "Midnight Rain" at No. 7. On the other hand, "Bejeweled," thanks to its easter egg-full of a music video, is at No. 9.

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