BILLBOARD 200 Week ending August 17, 2024

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 1 16 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (142,000 (84,000 sales))

2 ** 1 Vultures 2 ‒ ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ( 2 ) (107,000 (60,500 sales))

3 4 20 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 3 ) (64,000)

4 2 75 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (63,000)

5 5 12 Hit Me Hard And Soft ‒ Billie Eilish ( 2 ) (57,000)

6 9 9 Brat ‒ Charli xcx ( 3 ) (56,000)

7 3 6 The Great American Bar Scene ‒ Zach Bryan ( 2 ) (51,000)

8 11 187 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (37,000)

9 10 89 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 ) (37,000)

10 8 3 Twisters: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 7 ) (37,000)

11 7 4 The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

12 14 50 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 )

13 6 3 Ate: Mini Album (EP) ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

14 13 10 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going ‒ Shaboozey ( 5 )

15 15 87 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 )

16 16 7 Exodo ‒ Peso Pluma ( 5 )

17 19 116 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

18 20 38 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 12 )

19 23 259 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

20 12 18 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 )

21 22 20 We Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

22 24 211 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

23 26 48 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

24 27 375 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

25 30 94 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

26 32 41 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

27 33 44 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 17 )

28 36 7 The Secret Of Us ‒ Gracie Abrams ( 2 )

29 34 4 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 9 )

30 41 706 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

31 37 118 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

32 17 3 Muse ‒ Jimin ( 2 )

33 38 593 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

34 39 54 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

35 45 168 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

36 43 696 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

37 49 307 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

38 35 3 9 Lives ‒ Koe Wetzel ( 15 )

39 46 382 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

40 52 352 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

41 40 6 Megan ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 3 )

42 47 615 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

43 ** 1 Sincere ‒ Khalid ( 43 )

44 53 394 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

45 51 59 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )

46 42 72 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

47 25 2 Pero No Te Enamores ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 25 )

48 48 22 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

49 55 44 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )

50 56 13 One Of Wun ‒ Gunna ( 2 )

51 54 847 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

52 60 607 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

53 58 23 A Great Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 11 )

54 44 4 Romance : Untold ‒ ENHYPEN ( 2 )

55 72 306 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

56 18 2 Y2K! ‒ Ice Spice ( 18 )

57 67 200 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

58 61 232 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

59 59 42 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )

60 66 65 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )

61 63 46 Emails I Can't Send ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 23 )

62 68 374 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

63 65 8 Hardstone Psycho ‒ Don Toliver ( 3 )

64 64 4 Charm ‒ Clairo ( 8 )

65 69 465 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

66 71 548 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

67 62 248 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

68 73 817 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

69 79 597 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

70 74 162 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )

71 75 38 11:11 ‒ Chris Brown ( 9 )

72 80 143 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

73 85 330 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

74 83 190 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

75 77 4 Descendants: The Rise Of Red ‒ Soundtrack ( 60 )

76 76 18 Ehhthang Ehhthang ‒ GloRilla ( 18 )

77 ** 1 Hungover ‒ Ella Langley ( 77 )

78 84 353 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

79 78 19 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

80 82 8 New World Depression ‒ $uicideboy$ ( 5 )

81 90 340 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

82 ** 1 Actin' Up Again ‒ Gavin Adcock ( 82 )

83 86 463 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

84 91 88 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )

85 88 162 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 1 )

86 97 578 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

87 81 8 Speak Now ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 13 )

88 102 35 Think Later ‒ Tate McRae ( 4 )

89 99 191 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

90 87 314 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

91 70 3 Mirada ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 17 )

92 98 325 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

93 94 43 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

94 105 153 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

95 104 383 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

96 96 169 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 77 )

97 89 255 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

98 93 21 Mr. Beat The Road ‒ BossMan DLow ( 20 )

99 101 39 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

100 95 20 Unheard (EP) ‒ Hozier ( 10 )

101 100 682 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

102 ** 1 I Lay Down My Life For You ‒ JPEGMAFIA ( 102 )

103 108 62 Whitsitt Chapel ‒ Jelly Roll ( 3 )

104 103 195 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

105 106 57 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

106 113 430 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

107 111 119 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

108 110 319 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

109 118 61 Elisabeth ‒ Zach Bryan ( 76 )

110 109 296 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

111 115 486 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

112 107 30 American Dream ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

113 92 76 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 )

114 121 73 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )

115 129 688 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

116 120 47 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

117 28 2 Child Of God ‒ Forrest Frank ( 28 )

118 131 432 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

119 135 106 Greatest Hits ‒ Creed ( 15 )

120 126 385 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

121 116 45 20 Number Ones ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 22 )

122 117 17 Papercuts ‒ Linkin Park ( 6 )

123 125 153 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

124 122 142 Greatest Hits ‒ blink-182 ( 6 )

125 163 50 Greatest Hits ‒ Aerosmith ( 36 )

126 124 252 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

127 112 17 We Still Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

128 123 534 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

129 138 44 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )

130 ** 1 No Name ‒ Jack White ( 130 )

131 114 4 Artificial Paradise ‒ OneRepublic ( 50 )

132 RE 8 Deeper Well ‒ Kacey Musgraves ( 2 )

133 RE 373 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

134 132 268 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

135 128 638 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

136 RE 11 Greatest Hits ‒ *NSYNC ( 47 )

137 144 280 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

138 57 3 Bando Stone And The New World ‒ Childish Gambino ( 16 )

139 161 279 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

140 RE 209 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )

141 133 505 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

142 137 377 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

143 146 228 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )

144 151 618 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

145 ** 1 Cosmic (EP) ‒ Red Velvet ( 145 )

146 136 338 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

147 29 2 Made By These Moments ‒ The Red Clay Strays ( 29 )

148 130 231 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

149 162 315 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

150 164 24 Bewitched ‒ Laufey ( 18 )

151 165 533 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

152 143 272 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

153 194 158 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

154 154 313 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

155 145 225 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

156 140 397 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

157 152 15 PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) ‒ PARTYNEXTDOOR ( 10 )

158 156 219 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

159 ** 1 Stampede ‒ Orville Peck ( 159 )

160 142 52 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season) ‒ Karol G ( 3 )

161 139 52 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 97 )

162 153 161 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

163 158 688 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

164 157 81 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )

165 167 123 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

166 134 338 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )

167 155 450 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

168 173 53 El Comienzo ‒ Grupo Frontera ( 34 )

169 177 20 Livin' My Best Life ‒ Dylan Scott ( 60 )

170 174 38 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )

171 191 754 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

172 160 163 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

173 169 349 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

174 184 384 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

175 172 14 Radical Optimism ‒ Dua Lipa ( 2 )

176 190 90 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )

177 181 177 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

178 168 356 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

179 159 8 Fathers & Sons ‒ Luke Combs ( 6 )

180 183 253 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

181 141 206 Cry Baby ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 6 )

182 166 72 Bluebird Days ‒ Jordan Davis ( 19 )

183 150 116 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

184 193 92 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 )

185 186 55 Barbie: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

186 175 172 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

187 179 504 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

188 185 302 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

189 188 329 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

190 50 2 Faith Of A Mustard Seed ‒ Mustard ( 50 )

191 176 207 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

192 RE 606 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

193 200 206 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

194 180 376 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )

195 171 46 Scarlet ‒ Doja Cat ( 4 )

196 170 11 In Sexyy We Trust ‒ Sexyy Red ( 17 )

197 196 363 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

198 189 200 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

199 RE 11 T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits ‒ T-Pain ( 181 )

200 199 552 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Clocks 14th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

By Keith Caulfield | 08/11/2024

 

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department clocks a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 17), with 142,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 8 (up 98%) according to Luminate.

 

The last album to spend at least 14 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The last album by a woman to spend at least 14 total weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2 with 107,000 equivalent album units, marking the 13th Ye album to reach the top two (his entirety of charting releases), while Ty Dolla $ign ups his tally of top 10s to three.

 

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 142,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 8, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 606%), SEA units comprise 57,500 (equaling 75.43 million on-demand official streams of the set’s widely available deluxe edition’s 31 songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Poets is No. 2 on the Top Streaming Albums chart (behind Wallen’s One Thing at a Time) and No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

 

Poets’ album sales in the latest tracking week were bolstered by a number of drivers. The set was released in five new digital album variants via Swift’s official webstore for a limited time, each containing the standard album’s 16 songs, along with one exclusive bonus track for $4.99 each (one album contained a “first draft phone memo” version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” while the other four contained one live track each from recent stops during her The Eras Tour). In addition, for a limited time, the store restocked three previously available digital album variants with exclusive bonus cuts, and a signed CD edition. Her store also staged a brief sale pricing promotion, whereby 16 previously available physical variants of the album were all discounted by 13% (as 13 is Swift’s favorite number).

 

With Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she adds her 83rd career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 swoops in with 107,000 equivalent album units earned. The album was released on Saturday (Aug. 3). It’s the long-awaited sequel to the chart-topping Vultures 1, which opened atop the Feb. 24-dated chart with 148,000 units. Of the new album’s first-week figure, album sales comprise 60,500 in album sales, SEA units comprise 46,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the standard set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500 units. Vultures 2 also bows at No. 6 on the Top Streaming Albums chart and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart.

 

The opening sales of Vultures 2 were aided by its availability across a widely available standard explicit edition, and a late-in-the-week-released clean edition (on Aug. 8). Ye’s official webstore also issued five additional explicit digital album variants on Wednesday (Aug. 7) and Thursday (Aug. 8), each containing the standard album’s 16 tracks, along with one exclusive studio bonus track per album. All digital albums on Ye’s webstore sold for $5 each. The Vultures 2 album, both clean and explicit, was also discounted to $4.99 in the iTunes Store in the tracking week.

 

Vultures 2 was originally slated for release on March 8.

 

Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs to a new high, as it rises from its prior No. 4 best to No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 20%). The album’s ascent comes after Roan’s rousing reception at Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 2-4 with 63,000 equivalent album units (down 2%), while Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is steady at No. 5 with 57,000 units (up 8%).

 

Charli XCX’s Brat bolts 9-6 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (up 39%), following the release of the album’s “Guess” remix with Eilish on Aug. 1.

 

Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene falls 3-7 (51,000 equivalent album units; down 16%), Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album rises 11-8 (just over 37,000; down less than 1%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season lifts 10-9 (a little more than 37,000; down 5%) and the Twisters: The Album soundtrack drops 8-10 (37,000; down 16%).