Taylor Swift's "Midnights' is racing for its fifth week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Based on early mid-week predictions by the Hits Daily Double, the banger album is set to finish atop the charts again.
Per early numbers, "Midnights" lead the genre-blending album charts with 55,000 pure album sales and 140,000 activity on last week's tracking week.
Comparing the album sales alone of "Midnights" to the other albums on the chart, the record is greater than the sales generated by the Top 2 all the way to the Top 13 combined.
Trailing behind "Midnights" is Drake and 21 Savage's "Her Loss," which dethroned the album on its supposed fourth week atop. The former is projected to yield around 460 albums.
Meanwhile, Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti," hailed as Spotify's Most Streamed Album of 2022 globally, is third on the list, with 1,900 album sales.
With the Christmas Season officially starting tomorrow, a handful of holiday albums have made their way back to the charts - Michael Buble's "Christmas" is at fourth, with 10,000 album sales.
Lil Baby's "It's Only Me," holds the fifth spot with 130 album sales but with 43,000 activity. On the top 10, the former No. 1 is predicted to yield the least sales with the three-digit figure.
The "Christmas Song," one of Nat King Cole's greatest hits, is at No. 6 of the expected Top 10 next week.
Morgan Wallen's "Dangerous: The Double Album" is at No. 7, while The Weekend's "The Highlights" follows at No. 8.
Meanwhile, Mariah Carey's perennial album "Merry Christmas" is at No. 9, with Vince Guaraldi Trio's "Charlie Brown Christmas" holds No. 10.
Former chart-topper "As It Was" by Harry Styles is expected to dip to No. 11 at the predicted Album 200 charts next week.
Six more Christmas albums are also expected to hit the Top 20, Bing Crosby's "Christmas Classics" peeks at No. 12, Frank Sinatra's "Ultimate Christmas" at No. 13, and Pentatonix's "The Best of Pentatonix Christmas" soared to No. 16.
The Top 18, 19, and 20 are all blocked by Christmas albums too, with Burl Ive's "Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer," Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift from Phil Spector," and Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," respectively.
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