Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Dominates Billboard 200 for Ninth Week

Taylor Swift’s album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has secured its ninth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 126,000 equivalent album units sold in the U.S. in the week ending June 20. This album now ranks as Swift’s second-longest chart-topping album, following only ‘1989’ and ‘Fearless.’ With this achievement, Swift has extended her record as the soloist with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with a total of 78 weeks. Notable debuts in the top 10 include Don Toliver’s ‘Hardstone Psycho’ at No. 3, $uicideboy$’ ‘New World Depression’ at No. 5, Luke Combs’ ‘Fathers & Sons’ at No. 6, and NAYEON’s ‘NA’ at No. 7. This marks a significant week with four new entries in the top 10, the highest since over a year ago. The Billboard 200 chart measures album popularity in the U.S. through multi-metric consumption, including album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).