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BILLBOARD 200 Week ending May 4, 2024

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

1 ** 1 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (2,610,000 (1,914,000 sales))
2 3 5 We Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 ) (69,000)
3 2 4 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 ) (66,000)
4 4 60 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (64,000)
5 ** 1 Dark Matter ‒ Pearl Jam ( 5 ) (59,000 (52,000 sales))
6 1 2 We Still Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 ) (54,000)
7 5 74 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 ) (45,000)
8 7 3 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 ) (40,000)
9 8 72 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 ) (39,000)
10 11 244 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (37,000)
11 9 172 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
12 10 7 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )
13 13 35 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 )
14 15 26 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
15 14 79 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
16 12 33 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
17 16 29 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )
18 22 23 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 15 )
19 19 101 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )
20 6 2 Papercuts ‒ Linkin Park ( 6 )
21 21 39 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )
22 20 196 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
23 18 5 Unheard (EP) ‒ Hozier ( 10 )
24 25 27 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )
25 28 44 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )
26 23 3 Ehhthang Ehhthang ‒ GloRilla ( 18 )
27 32 103 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )
28 31 15 American Dream ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )
29 26 57 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )
30 36 5 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 30 )
31 17 3 Might Delete Later ‒ J. Cole ( 2 )
32 29 3 Bryson Tiller ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 12 )
33 37 360 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )
34 34 6 Mr. Beat The Road ‒ BossMan Dlow ( 20 )
35 56 578 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )
36 38 29 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 25 )
37 43 832 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )
38 76 20 Pink Friday 2 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 1 )
39 24 23 11:11 ‒ Chris Brown ( 9 )
40 40 28 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )
41 39 11 Vultures 1 ‒ ¥$: Ye & Ty Dolla $ign ( 1 )
42 46 50 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )
43 35 31 Scarlet ‒ Doja Cat ( 4 )
44 41 153 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
45 30 2 To The Limit: The Essential Collection ‒ Eagles ( 30 )
46 55 359 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )
47 45 691 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )
48 51 217 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )
49 49 367 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )
50 50 582 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )
51 58 379 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )
52 47 337 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )
53 53 681 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )
54 42 128 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
55 44 176 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
56 57 592 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )
57 54 533 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )
58 27 292 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
59 ** 1 Rebel ‒ Anne Wilson ( 59 )
60 67 31 Emails I Can't Send ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 23 )
61 59 73 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )
62 52 42 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
63 61 600 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )
64 64 291 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )
65 60 47 Whitsitt Chapel ‒ Jelly Roll ( 3 )
66 63 20 Think Later ‒ Tate McRae ( 4 )
67 RE 990 The Dark Side Of The Moon ‒ Pink Floyd ( 1 )
68 69 304 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )
69 74 233 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )
70 72 138 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )
71 70 325 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )
72 73 32 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )
73 66 24 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )
74 81 299 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )
75 68 147 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 1 )
76 79 185 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )
77 85 315 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )
78 71 5 Tyla ‒ Tyla ( 24 )
79 77 175 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )
80 84 802 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )
81 80 415 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )
82 78 450 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )
83 87 368 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )
84 75 146 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
85 86 77 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 )
86 88 310 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )
87 83 448 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )
88 109 237 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )
89 33 3 minisode 3: TOMORROW ‒ TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 3 )
90 90 240 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )
91 82 11 Dolido Pero No Arrepentido (EP) ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 69 )
92 95 75 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )
93 ** 1 How? ‒ BOYNEXTDOOR ( 93 )
94 97 42 Hood Hottest Princess ‒ Sexyy Red ( 62 )
95 89 490 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )
96 101 154 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 91 )
97 92 138 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )
98 103 29 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )
99 93 40 Barbie: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )
100 104 37 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 97 )
101 96 61 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 )
102 110 563 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )
103 102 327 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )
104 100 66 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )
105 98 417 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )
106 94 30 20 Number Ones ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 22 )
107 111 471 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )
108 107 281 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )
109 108 667 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )
110 114 10 2093 ‒ Yeat ( 2 )
111 91 12 Hazbin Hotel, Season One ‒ Soundtrack ( 13 )
112 115 256 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )
113 105 162 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )
114 65 338 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )
115 113 519 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )
116 99 180 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )
117 118 673 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )
118 112 18 THE BIGGEST (EP) ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 112 )
119 119 104 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )
120 121 673 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )
121 ** 1 Best Of ‒ Bruce Springsteen ( 121 )
122 147 623 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )
123 131 151 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )
124 136 265 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )
125 RE 13 Wasteland, Baby! ‒ Hozier ( 1 )
126 124 301 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )
127 135 264 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )
128 128 148 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )
129 133 238 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )
130 116 46 Elisabeth ‒ Zach Bryan ( 83 )
131 130 44 I Am Music ‒ Lil Wayne ( 25 )
132 123 5 Livin' My Best Life ‒ Dylan Scott ( 60 )
133 122 323 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )
134 127 257 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )
135 129 354 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )
136 126 101 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )
137 139 38 El Comienzo ‒ Grupo Frontera ( 34 )
138 167 26 Larger Than Life ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 11 )
139 106 489 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
140 154 518 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )
141 142 300 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )
142 134 363 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )
143 137 370 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )
144 146 361 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )
145 117 57 Bluebird Days ‒ Jordan Davis ( 19 )
146 158 213 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )
147 138 35 Greatest Hits ‒ Aerosmith ( 36 )
148 132 37 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season) ‒ Karol G ( 3 )
149 145 194 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )
150 153 341 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )
151 125 9 Decide ‒ Djo ( 56 )
152 148 23 Pretty Little Poison ‒ Warren Zeiders ( 59 )
153 151 58 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )
154 ** 1 I Was / I Am ‒ Noah Kahan ( 154 )
155 141 210 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )
156 120 5 Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran ‒ Shakira ( 13 )
157 152 204 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )
158 155 195 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )
159 168 192 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )
160 176 94 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )
161 156 3 What Happens Now? ‒ Dasha ( 141 )
162 143 23 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )
163 169 264 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 )
164 165 268 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )
165 163 129 Greatest Hits ‒ blink-182 ( 6 )
166 160 143 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )
167 180 348 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )
168 159 369 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )
169 166 108 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )
170 161 157 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )
171 162 216 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )
172 ** 1 Live At SoFi Stadium ‒ The Weeknd ( 172 )
173 RE 17 A Great Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 11 )
174 150 3 Wish ‒ Soundtrack ( 150 )
175 178 161 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )
176 179 603 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )
177 175 198 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )
178 171 3 Certified ‒ NLE Choppa ( 171 )
179 177 246 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )
180 196 192 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )
181 182 366 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )
182 186 204 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )
183 195 123 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )
184 144 6 Deeper Well ‒ Kacey Musgraves ( 2 )
185 192 100 Toxicity ‒ System Of A Down ( 1 )
186 172 542 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )
187 185 80 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )
188 RE 185 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )
189 173 140 Good Girl Gone Bad ‒ Rihanna ( 2 )
190 189 314 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )
191 RE 287 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )
192 RE 115 Freudian ‒ Daniel Caesar ( 25 )
193 181 429 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )
194 174 91 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )
195 188 50 Greatest Hits Vol. I ‒ Korn ( 4 )
196 184 59 Endless Summer Vacation ‒ Miley Cyrus ( 3 )
197 198 268 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )
198 191 6 Fine Ho, Stay ‒ Flo Milli ( 54 )
199 ** 1 Children Of The Slums ‒ Mozzy ( 199 )
200 193 18 For Her ‒ Hunxho ( 84 )
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Taylor Swift Makes Historic Debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
By Keith Caulfield | 04/28/2024

As expected, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department makes a gigantic debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4), securing the superstar her 14th chart-topping album. She ties Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists in the nearly-70-year history of the chart. Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more.

The Tortured Poets Department launches with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, with traditional album sales (purchases of digital download albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) comprising 1.914 million of that sum. Of that sales figure, vinyl sales represent a staggering 859,000. The collected 31 songs on the deluxe edition of the album generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.

Those eye-popping figures mark the largest streaming week for an album ever, the second-largest week for an album (by total equivalent album units earned) since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014, the third-largest sales week (by traditional album sales) in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991) and the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week unit sum of 2.61 million, album sales comprise 1.914 million (a number bolstered by its availability across more than 20 different iterations of the album), SEA units comprise 683,000 (equaling 891.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 31 songs, on its deluxe edition) and TEA units comprise 14,000. (All figures are rounded.)

With 1.914 million sold, The Tortured Poets Department is instantly the top-selling album of 2024, year-to-date. The second-biggest selling album, counting weekly sales from January through the present, is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, with 228,000 copies sold in total.

Swift announced the album during the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, and her official webstore began accepting pre-orders for the project that same day. The set was released on April 19, alongside its first single, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone.

The Tortured Poets Department (abbreviated as TTPD) was initially released at midnight ET on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as an array of 17-song physical configurations (more details on the assorted versions later in this story). Two hours after the album’s release, Swift announced an expanded 31-song edition of the set and released it as a digital download and streaming album. She wrote: “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

Swift’s 14th No. 1 on the Billboard 200
With a 14th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, Swift ties Jay-Z for the most chart-toppers among soloists. Overall, only The Beatles have more, with 19 leaders. All 14 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and rerecorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department have debuted at No. 1.

Here’s a look at the acts with at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

19, The Beatles
14, Jay-Z
14, Taylor Swift
13, Drake
11, Bruce Springsteen
11, Barbra Streisand
11, Ye (formerly Kanye West)
10, Eminem
10, Future
10, Elvis Presley


Largest Streaming Week Ever
The Tortured Poets Department’s collected 31 songs on its deluxe edition generated 891.37 million on-demand official streams in the week ending April 25 in the U.S. That marks the single-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total combined streams for its songs. Here’s a recap of the top 10 largest streaming weeks for albums (all were debut weeks):

Rank, Artist, Title, Streams, Chart Date
1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 891.37 million, May 4, 2024
2, Drake, Scorpion, 745.92 million, July 14, 2018
3, Drake, Certified Lover Boy, 743.67 million, Sept. 18, 2021
4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 549.26 million, Nov. 5, 2022
5, Drake, For All the Dogs, 514.01 million, Oct. 21, 2023
6, Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss, 513.56 million, Nov. 19, 2022
7, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 498.28 million, March 18, 2023
8, Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V, 433.02 million, Oct. 13, 2018
9, Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys, 431.34 million, May 12, 2018
10, Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die, 422.63 million, July 25, 2020
(Streaming data source: Luminate)

Second-Largest Week, by Equivalent Album Units Earned
In December 2014, the Billboard 200 began ranking the week’s most popular albums by equivalent album units. (Previously, the chart was ranked strictly by traditional album sales.) Since that changeover, The Tortured Poets Department has the second-biggest week for any album by units earned. Here’s a recap of the top 10 biggest weeks, by units, since December 2014:

Rank, Artist, Title, Units, Chart Date
1, Adele, 25, 3.482 million, Dec. 12, 2015
2, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 2.61 million, May 4, 2024
3, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.653 million, Nov. 11, 2023
4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 1.578 million, Nov. 5, 2022
5, Taylor Swift, reputation, 1.238 million, Dec. 2, 2017
6, Adele, 25, 1.193 million, Jan. 9, 2016*
7, Adele, 25, 1.162 million, Dec. 19, 2015*
8, Drake, Views, 1.039 million, May 21, 2016
9, Taylor Swift, Lover, 867,000, Sept. 7, 2019
10, Taylor Swift, Folklore, 846,000, Aug. 8, 2020
(Equivalent album units source: Luminate; All weeks are debuts, except for those marked with an asterisk.)

Third-Largest Sales Week in Modern Era
The Tortured Poets Department sold 1.914 million copies in traditional album sales in its first week (purchases of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassette tapes). That marks the third-largest sales week for an album in the modern era — since Luminate began electronically tracking music sales in 1991.

The Tortured Poets Department’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 19 different physical configurations (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes, with four of the physical configurations exclusively sold by Target stores) and two digital download offerings (the standard 16-song album, and a surprise deluxe 31-song edition that was released two hours after the original album bowed). All of the variants are itemized later in this story.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week sales of 1.914 million, physical sales comprise 1.64 million (859,000 vinyl LPs — a modern-era single week record for an album on vinyl, 759,500 CDs and a little over 21,500 cassettes) and digital downloads comprise 274,000.

The Tortured Poets Department is the seventh Swift album to have sold at least 1 million copies in a single week, following the debuts of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with seven different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the modern era. In total, there have been 26 instances — by 24 different albums — in which an album has sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks.

Six of the top 10 million-selling weeks occurred in the early 2000s, in the pre-digital and pre-streaming heyday of the CD — when essentially the only way to listen to music on-demand was by purchasing an album. The year 2000 was the high-water mark in the modern era for album sales, when 785 million albums were sold in the U.S. Comparably, in 2023, there were 105.32 million albums sold, and Swift sold the most of any act — accounting for 6% of all U.S. album sales in 2023. (Popular streaming services Spotify and Apple Music did not launch in the U.S. until 2011 and 2015, respectively.)

Here’s a recap of the top 10 biggest-selling weeks by albums in the modern era (1991-present), ranked in order by sales volume.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Adele, 25, 3.378 million, Dec. 12, 2015
2, *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2.416 million, April 8, 2000
3, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 1.914 million, May 4, 2024
4, *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1.88 million, Aug. 11, 2001
5, Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1.76 million, June 10, 2000
6, Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1.591 million, Dec. 9, 2000
7, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.359 million, Nov. 11, 2023
8, Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1.322 million, June 15, 2002*
9, Britney Spears, Oops! …I Did It Again, 1.319 million, June 3, 2000
10, Taylor Swift, 1989, 1.287 million, Nov. 15, 2014
(Sales source: Luminate. *All weeks are debuts, except for The Eminem Show, which debuted on the chart dated June 8, 2002, from a partial week of sales due to an off-cycle early release. The June 15, 2002, chart reflected the album’s first week of availability.)

Biggest Sales Week for a Vinyl Album in Modern Era
Swift continues to be a dominant force when it comes to vinyl album sales, as The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week vinyl figure of 859,000 is the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era. Swift has the top four-selling weeks on vinyl, and six of the top 10-selling weeks.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 859,000, May 4, 2024
2, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 693,000, Nov. 11, 2023
3, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 575,000, Nov. 5, 2022
4, Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 268,000, July 22, 2023
5, Harry Styles, Harry’s House, 182,000, June 4, 2022
6, Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version), 114,000, Nov. 27, 2021
7, Adele, 30, 108,000, Dec. 4, 2021
8, Taylor Swift, Evermore, 102,000, June 12, 2021
9, Olivia Rodrigo, Guts, 94,000, Sept. 23, 2023
10, Travis Scott, Utopia, 93,000, Aug. 26, 2023
(Sales source: Luminate; all weeks reflect albums’ first week of availability on vinyl.)

In 2023, Swift loomed so large on vinyl that her 1989 (Taylor’s Version) became the first vinyl album in the modern era to sell 1 million copies in a calendar year. Further, in 2023, Swift accounted for 7% of all vinyl album sales in the U.S. From 2021 through 2023, vinyl albums were the leading configuration for album purchases in the U.S. Vinyl was the dominant configuration for album purchases in the U.S. up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD configuration blossomed and remained king until 2021, when vinyl retook the top slot.

Recap of the Retail-Available Versions of The Tortured Poets Department

Standard 16-song digital download album (Widely available through all digital retailers.)

“The Manuscript” edition (Standard CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, ghosted white-colored vinyl, Target-exclusive clear vinyl, and white-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Manuscript.” The standard CD and vinyl editions are widely available through all retailers, the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore. Swift also sold signed copies of the standard CD and vinyl variants exclusively through her webstore.)

“The Albatross” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, smoke-colored vinyl, smoke-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Albatross.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

“The Bolter” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, beige-colored vinyl, beige-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Bolter.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

“The Black Dog” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, charcoal-colored vinyl, charcoal-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Black Dog.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

Deluxe 31-song digital download album (Widely available through all digital retailers. Contains the 16 songs on the standard digital album, plus the four bonus tracks that were issued on the above four variants [“The Manuscript,” “The Albatross,” “The Black Dog” and “The Bolter”] and 11 additional songs.)

Pearl Jam’s ‘Dark Matter’ Debuts in Top Five on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | 04/28/2024

Pearl Jam debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 4) with its latest studio album, Dark Matter, marking the 13th top 10-charting effort for the band. The set launches with a little over 59,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, according to Luminate.

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, as earlier reported, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department makes a milestone debut atop the list, with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in its first week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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.

Of Dark Matter’s first-week sum of 59,000 units, album sales comprise 52,000, SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 11 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Notably, of its 52,000 sales sum, vinyl sales comprise a little over 24,000, enhanced by its availability across 12 different color vinyl variants.

The new album was led by the set’s title track, which hit No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in March (the group’s fourth No. 1 and first since 1998) and has reached the top 10 on Alternative Airplay (the act’s 20th top 10 hit).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Future and Metro Boomin’s former leader We Don’t Trust You rises one spot with 69,000 equivalent album units earned (down 17%). Beyoncé’s chart-topping Cowboy Carter slips 2-3 with 66,000 (down 33%), and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 with 64,000 (down 11%).

Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You falls 1-6 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned (down 57%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 5-7 with 45,000 units (down 11%) and Benson Boone’s Fireworks & Rollerblades glides 7-8 with 40,000 units (down 8%). Rounding out the top 10 is a pair of former No. 1s: SZA’s SOS dips 8-9 with 39,000 units (down 2%) and Swift’s Lover climbs 11-10 with 37,000 (down 6%).
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