Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a sixteenth nonconsecutive week, because the set vaults 8-1 on the chart dated Dec. 14, following the primary bodily launch of the album’s deluxe Anthology version, completely at Target within the U.S. The set earned 405,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Dec. 5 — up 839% — in accordance with Luminate, largely pushed by bodily album gross sales. It’s the most important week for any album since Poets’ second week, when it tallied 439,000 models.
TTPD was initially launched on April 19 as a regular 16-song digital obtain album, in addition to an in array of 17-song bodily configurations. Two hours after the album dropped, Swift issued an expanded 31-song version of the album, dubbed The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, which added 15 further songs. However, the Anthology version was solely obtainable as a digital obtain and streaming set till Nov. 29, when its CD and vinyl editions grew to become obtainable for buy completely by Target. The Target CD and vinyl moreover boasted 4 bonus acoustic tracks (which had been beforehand launched in different various variations of the album).
The announcement of Poets’ return to No. 1 comes on the identical day (Dec. 8) that Swift closes her globe-trotting, stadium-filling The Eras Tour in Vancouver, after 149 dates. The retrospective trek launched in March 2023 and visited 21 international locations throughout 5 continents.
Also within the high 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Juice WRLD’s The Party Never Ends debuts at No. 4, securing the late rapper his sixth high five-charting set. Plus, the highest 10 is getting festive, because the area welcomes its first vacation titles this season: Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas jingles 12-7 and Bing Crosby’s new compilation Ultimate Christmas dashes 18-9. With the latter, Crosby claims his first high 10 album in practically 64 years.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, observe 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 Dec. 14, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Tuesday (Dec. 10). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously generally known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 405,000 equal album models earned within the week ending Dec. 5, conventional album gross sales comprise 368,000 (up 4,377%; it surges 17-1 on Top Album Sales for a ninth nonconsecutive week on high), SEA models comprise 37,000 (up 6%; equaling 48.19 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it holds at No. 9 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum (down 21%).
Of TTPD’s 368,000 album gross sales for the week, vinyl gross sales comprise 191,000 (up 3,284%) and CD gross sales comprise 177,000 (up 7,738%), largely pushed by gross sales from the unique editions offered at Target. (Digital obtain and cassette gross sales comprise a negligible sum for the week.)
Poets spent its first 12 weeks on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 (charts dated May 4-July 20), fell to No. 4 for 2 weeks, returned to No. 1 for 3 extra weeks (Aug. 10-Aug. 24 charts) after which departed the highest slot till the most recent chart.
With a sixteenth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, The Tortured Poets Department now solely has the third-most weeks at No. 1 amongst albums by ladies (because the listing started publishing on an everyday, weekly foundation in March 1956). It steps previous Carole King’s Tapestry, which registered 15 weeks at No. 1 in 1971. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have extra weeks at No. 1 amongst ladies.
The final album to spend not less than 16 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The final album by a girl to spend not less than 16 weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on high in 2011-12.
With Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she provides her eighty fifth profession week at No. 1 on the chart, extending her file amongst soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most amongst soloists, with 67.) The whole encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for essentially the most No. 1s amongst soloists.)
Kendrick Lamar’s GNX falls 1-2 on the Billboard 200 in its second week with 165,000 equal album models earned (down 48%). The Wicked movie soundtrack dips 2-3 in its second body, with 108,000 models earned (down 22%).
The late Juice WRLD collects his sixth high 5 (and high 10) charting effort — the whole thing of his charting releases — as The Party Never Ends debuts at No. 4. The set bows with 86,000 equal album models earned. Of that sum, SEA models comprise 84,000 (equaling 123.43 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 2,000 and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
The new album was preceded by the Billboard Hot 100 chart hit “AGATS2 (Insecure)” (with Nicki Minaj), which reached No. 68 on the Nov. 30-dated chart. On the Hot Rap Songs chart, it debuted and peaked at No. 11.
The Party Never Ends is the third posthumously launched charting effort for Juice WRLD, who died on Dec. 8, 2019. Since his passing, he’s notched Billboard 200 entries with Legends Never Die (two weeks at No. 1 in 2020), Fighting Demons (No. 2 in 2021) and now The Party Never Ends.
Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet falls 3-5 on the Billboard 200 with 68,000 equal album models earned (down 1%), whereas Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft slips 5-6 with 59,000 models (although up 18%).
Bublé’s chart-topping Christmas returns to the Billboard 200’s high 10, leaping 12-7 with 56,000 equal album models earned (up 53%). The set, first launched in 2011, spent 5 weeks at No. 1 in December 2011 and early January 2012 and has returned to the highest 10 in each following vacation season. In the most recent monitoring week, of its 56,000 models, SEA models comprise 48,000 (up 59%; equaling 63.79 million on-demand official streams of its songs; it climbs 13-5 on Top Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 8,000 (up 23%; it falls 27-30 on Top Album Sales) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 10-8 on the Billboard 200 with 52,000 equal album models earned (up 23%).
The legendary Crosby is again within the high 10 on the Billboard 200 for the primary time in practically 64 years, as his new vacation compilation Ultimate Christmas climbs 18-9. The set earned 50,000 equal album models within the week ending Dec. 5 (up 59%). Of that sum, SEA models comprise 46,000 (up 62%; equaling 61.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it jumps 16-6 on Top Streaming Albums).
Crosby, who died in 1977, was final within the high 10 on the Billboard 200 together with his basic Merry Christmas album, which ranked at No. 9 on the Dec. 31, 1960-dated chart. It had beforehand spent every week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.
Merry Christmas grew to become the second vacation album to high the Billboard 200, following its launch as a frequently revealed weekly chart in March 1956. Elvis Presley’s Elvis Christmas Album was the primary chart-topping vacation set, because it topped the chart for 3 weeks in December 1957, moved apart for Crosby for every week after which returned to No. 1 for yet one more week in January 1958.
Ultimate Christmas is offered as 14-song customary album, an expanded 28-song version, and a deluxe 58-song model. All variations of the album comprise such basic Holiday 100-charting tunes from Crosby as “White Christmas” (that includes The Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” “Mele Kalikimaka” (with The Andrews Sisters) and “Silent Night” (that includes John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Max Terr’s Mixed Chorus).
Rounding out the highest 10 of the most recent Billboard 200 is Tyler, The Creator’s chart-topping CHROMAKOPIA, falling 4-10 with 49,000 equal album models earned (down 19%).
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