Taylor Swift Rules Billboard 200 for Third Week With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department spends a 3rd straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 18), marking her first title to spend its first three weeks atop the chart since 2020’s Folklore spent its first six weeks at No. 1. (Between Folklore and the brand new album, Swift earned six No. 1 albums.) The Tortured Poets Department is the primary album to spend its first three weeks within the pole place since Travis Scott’s Utopia led in its first 4 weeks final summer time (Aug. 12-Sept. 2, 2023).

The Tortured Poets Department earned 282,000 equal album items within the U.S. within the week ending May 9 (down 36%), in accordance with Luminate. That marks the biggest third-week for any album since Swift’s personal Midnights clocked 299,000 items in its third body (Nov. 19, 2022-dated chart).

Also within the high 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Dua Lipa achieves her highest-charting album but, as Radical Optimism debuts at No 2. Plus, SEVENTEEN logs its fifth high 10-charting effort with the No. 5 arrival of SEVENTEEN Best Album ’17 Is Right Here.’

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. Units comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered 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 new May 18, 2024-dated chart will likely be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on May 14. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s third-week unit sum of 282,000, SEA items comprise 229,500 (down 30%, equaling 298.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), conventional album gross sales comprise 51,000 (down 53%) and TEA items comprise 1,500 (down 43%).

Swift provides her 72nd profession week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her report amongst soloists (Elvis Presley has the second-most amongst soloists, with 67). The complete encompasses her 14 leaders. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for essentially the most No. 1s amongst soloists.)

Dua Lipa scores her highest-charting album but on the Billboard 200 as her third studio effort, Radical Optimism, bows at No. 2. It enters with 83,000 equal album items earned — a private finest for the singer-songwriter. Of its beginning sum, album gross sales comprise 51,500 (it’s the top-selling album of the week, and it’s Lipa’s finest gross sales week ever), SEA items comprise 30,500 (equaling 39.7 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA items comprise 1,000.

The album’s gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 20 bodily variants, all with the identical 11 songs. There had been 11 vinyl editions in assorted colours (one among which was signed, and most variants had been unique to particular retailers) and two cassette tapes. In phrases of CDs, there was a extensively accessible normal CD with a lenticular cowl, after which a number of CD iterations offered solely in Lipa’s webstore (a signed normal CD, a zine CD package deal, and 4 deluxe CD boxed units — every containing a branded T-shirt and a CD, and two of the containers additionally included a signed artwork card).

In addition, the album was issued as a extensively accessible normal 11-song digital obtain and a deluxe digital album with two stay bonus tracks offered solely in Lipa’s webstore.

Radical Optimism is Lipa’s second high 10-charting effort, following her sophomore set, 2020’s Future Nostalgia, which peaked at No. 3.

The new 11-song album was introduced on March 13 following two previously-released singles “Houdini” and “Training Season.” The former dropped final November and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 that month, whereas the latter topped out at No. 27 in March. A 3rd single, “Illusion,” bowed at No. 43 on the chart dated April 27.

On the promotional entrance, Lipa opened each the Brit Awards (March 2) and the Grammy Awards (Feb. 4). On the previous, she carried out “Training Season,” whereas on the latter she introduced a medley of “Training Season,” the Grammy-nominated Barbie soundtrack hit “Dance the Night” and “Houdini.” On May 4, a day after the album’s launch, Lipa hosted and carried out on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, performing “Illusion” and the album’s “Happy for You.” Further, the entertainer was named to Time 100 record of essentially the most influential individuals of 2024 (and appeared on the journal’s April 29 cowl), graced the covers of each Rolling Stone (for its February challenge) and Elle (May challenge), sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe for an hour-long interview (May 1) and even went day consuming with Seth Meyers (Dec. 11, 2023).

Two former No. 1s are up subsequent on the Billboard 200, as Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is pushed down 2-3 regardless of a 3% achieve (to 71,000 equal album items) and Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You falls 3-4 (down 1% to 61,000 items).

SEVENTEEN collects its fifth high 10 on the Billboard 200, all consecutive, as SEVENTEEN Best Album ‘17 Is Right Here’ debuts at No. 5. The retrospective compilation earned 53,000 equal album items in its first week. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 49,000, SEA items comprise 4,000 (equaling 5.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA items comprise a negligible sum. The set’s gross sales had been supported by its availability throughout a dozen CD variants, all containing branded paper merchandise like posters and photocards (some randomized). Exclusive iterations had been offered by Barnes & Noble and Target, whereas signed editions had been additionally accessible.

Ye (previously Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s chart-topping Vultures 1 flies again into the highest 10, because it wings 52-6 following the set’s arrival on vinyl. The effort earned 45,000 equal album items within the monitoring week (up 173%), whereas album gross sales comprising 31,000 of that sum (up 37,841%). Essentially all of its gross sales had been from vinyl — almost 31,000, which marks the largest gross sales week on vinyl for each Ye and Ty Dolla $ign. The vinyl version of the album was solely offered through Ye’s official webstore, and was initially offered as a pre-order when the album was first launched on Feb. 10 (as a paid obtain and through streaming providers). At that point, when clients pre-ordered the vinyl, the webstore said the vinyl would ship in “2024.”

Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is squeezed 6-7 on the brand new Billboard 200, although with a 4% achieve (to 42,000 equal album items). Beyoncé’s chart-topping Cowboy Carter falls 4-8 with 41,000 items (down 21%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 5-9 with 40,000 items (down 2%) and SZA’s former chief SOS falls 9-10 with 39,000 (down 1%).

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