BILLBOARD 200 Week ending August 24, 2024

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 1 17 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (85,000 (28,000 sales))

2 3 21 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 2 ) (72,000)

3 4 76 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (63,000)

4 5 13 Hit Me Hard And Soft ‒ Billie Eilish ( 2 ) (57,000)

5 7 7 The Great American Bar Scene ‒ Zach Bryan ( 2 ) (48,000)

6 6 10 Brat ‒ Charli xcx ( 3 ) (47,000)

7 9 90 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 ) (38,000)

8 8 188 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (38,000)

9 10 4 Twisters: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 7 ) (34,000)

10 12 51 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 ) (34,000)

11 15 88 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 )

12 14 11 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going ‒ Shaboozey ( 5 )

13 16 8 Exodo ‒ Peso Pluma ( 5 )

14 17 117 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

15 ** 1 Sugar Honey Iced Tea ‒ Latto ( 15 )

16 11 5 The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

17 19 260 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

18 20 19 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 )

19 2 2 Vultures 2 ‒ ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ( 2 )

20 22 212 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

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

22 13 4 Ate: Mini Album (EP) ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

23 23 49 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

24 RE 11 The First Time ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 24 )

25 24 376 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

26 25 95 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

27 26 42 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

28 ** 1 Hood Poet ‒ Polo G ( 28 )

29 27 45 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 17 )

30 30 707 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

31 28 8 The Secret Of Us ‒ Gracie Abrams ( 2 )

32 33 594 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

33 31 119 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

34 ** 1 This Is How Tomorrow Moves ‒ beabadoobee ( 34 )

35 34 55 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

36 35 169 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

37 37 308 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

38 39 383 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

39 40 353 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

40 36 697 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

41 63 9 Hardstone Psycho ‒ Don Toliver ( 3 )

42 44 395 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

43 45 60 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )

44 42 616 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

45 ** 1 Ultra 85 ‒ Logic ( 45 )

46 49 45 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )

47 50 14 One Of Wun ‒ Gunna ( 2 )

48 46 73 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

49 29 5 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 9 )

50 48 23 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

51 41 7 Megan ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 3 )

52 52 608 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

53 60 66 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )

54 38 4 9 Lives ‒ Koe Wetzel ( 15 )

55 47 3 Pero No Te Enamores ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 25 )

56 55 307 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

57 51 848 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

58 32 4 Muse ‒ Jimin ( 2 )

59 80 9 New World Depression ‒ $uicideboy$ ( 5 )

60 53 24 A Great Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 11 )

61 58 233 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

62 RE 221 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

63 57 201 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

64 62 375 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

65 61 47 Emails I Can't Send ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 23 )

66 70 163 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )

67 59 43 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )

68 69 598 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

69 65 466 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

70 66 549 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

71 73 331 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

72 68 818 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

73 67 249 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

74 72 144 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

75 74 191 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

76 64 5 Charm ‒ Clairo ( 8 )

77 54 5 Romance : Untold ‒ ENHYPEN ( 2 )

78 81 341 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

79 78 354 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

80 71 39 11:11 ‒ Chris Brown ( 9 )

81 ** 1 Doing It For Me ‒ Larry June ( 81 )

82 75 5 Descendants: The Rise Of Red ‒ Soundtrack ( 60 )

83 76 19 Ehhthang Ehhthang ‒ GloRilla ( 18 )

84 84 89 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )

85 83 464 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

86 86 579 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

87 88 36 Think Later ‒ Tate McRae ( 4 )

88 79 20 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

89 99 40 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

90 89 192 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

91 90 315 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

92 85 163 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 1 )

93 94 154 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

94 95 384 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

95 92 326 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

96 93 44 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

97 97 256 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

98 109 62 Elisabeth ‒ Zach Bryan ( 76 )

99 87 9 Speak Now ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 13 )

100 104 196 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

101 118 433 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

102 106 431 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

103 96 170 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 77 )

104 101 683 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

105 107 120 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

106 100 21 Unheard (EP) ‒ Hozier ( 10 )

107 98 22 Mr. Beat The Road ‒ BossMan DLow ( 20 )

108 114 74 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )

109 108 320 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

110 103 63 Whitsitt Chapel ‒ Jelly Roll ( 3 )

111 110 297 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

112 105 58 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

113 91 4 Mirada ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 17 )

114 119 107 Greatest Hits ‒ Creed ( 15 )

115 ** 1 Lungu Boy ‒ Asake ( 115 )

116 111 487 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

117 115 689 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

118 ** 1 Flight b741 ‒ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ( 118 )

119 121 46 20 Number Ones ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 22 )

120 RE 15 {Rotten Apples}: The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits ‒ The Smashing Pumpkins ( 31 )

121 116 48 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

122 126 253 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

123 112 31 American Dream ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

124 117 3 Child Of God ‒ Forrest Frank ( 28 )

125 123 154 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

126 113 77 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 )

127 129 45 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )

128 120 386 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

129 128 535 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

130 139 280 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

131 135 639 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

132 140 210 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )

133 125 51 Greatest Hits ‒ Aerosmith ( 36 )

134 134 269 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

135 127 18 We Still Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

136 146 339 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

137 141 506 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

138 142 378 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

139 131 5 Artificial Paradise ‒ OneRepublic ( 50 )

140 137 281 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

141 157 16 PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) ‒ PARTYNEXTDOOR ( 10 )

142 143 229 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )

143 161 53 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 97 )

144 144 619 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

145 149 316 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

146 154 314 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

147 150 25 Bewitched ‒ Laufey ( 18 )

148 152 273 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

149 77 2 Hungover ‒ Ella Langley ( 77 )

150 158 220 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

151 151 534 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

152 156 398 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

153 167 451 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

154 175 15 Radical Optimism ‒ Dua Lipa ( 2 )

155 148 232 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

156 163 689 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

157 RE 58 I Am Music ‒ Lil Wayne ( 25 )

158 171 755 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

159 160 53 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season) ‒ Karol G ( 3 )

160 162 162 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

161 18 39 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 12 )

162 174 385 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

163 164 82 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )

164 155 226 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

165 165 124 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

166 169 21 Livin' My Best Life ‒ Dylan Scott ( 60 )

167 168 54 El Comienzo ‒ Grupo Frontera ( 34 )

168 136 12 Greatest Hits ‒ *NSYNC ( 47 )

169 153 159 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

170 184 93 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 )

171 178 357 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

172 RE 296 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

173 173 350 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

174 177 178 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

175 188 303 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

176 180 254 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

177 170 39 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )

178 183 117 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

179 172 164 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

180 187 505 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

181 186 173 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

182 182 73 Bluebird Days ‒ Jordan Davis ( 19 )

183 185 56 Barbie: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

184 82 2 Actin' Up Again ‒ Gavin Adcock ( 82 )

185 199 12 T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits ‒ T-Pain ( 181 )

186 192 607 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

187 194 377 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )

188 197 364 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

189 191 208 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

190 200 553 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

191 RE 153 Good Girl Gone Bad ‒ Rihanna ( 2 )

192 176 91 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )

193 179 9 Fathers & Sons ‒ Luke Combs ( 6 )

194 RE 12 Orquideas ‒ Kali Uchis ( 2 )

195 RE 280 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

196 189 330 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

197 RE 258 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

198 RE 33 Pink Friday 2 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 1 )

199 195 47 Scarlet ‒ Doja Cat ( 4 )

200 RE 165 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Hits 15th Week Atop Billboard 200

By Keith Caulfield | 08/18/2024

 

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reaches a 15th week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 24) — tying Carole King’s Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. The latter spent 15 frames 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 more weeks at No. 1 among women.

 

Tortured Poets earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 15 (down 40%), according to Luminate.

 

Meanwhile, in a quiet top 10 (where no albums debut for the second time in three weeks), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits a new peak for the third week in a row, as it climbs 3-2 with 72,000 units (up 13%), a new weekly high, by units, for the set.

 

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 85,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 15, SEA units comprise 57,000 (down 1%, equaling 74.77 on-demand official streams of the set’s widely available deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 28,000 (down 67%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (up 5%). On the Top Streaming Albums chart, Poets falls 2-3 and on the Top Album Sales chart, it clocks an eighth week at No. 1.

 

With Tortured Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she adds her 84th 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.)

 

In the tracking week of Aug. 9-15, news continued to emerge from the foiled terror attack on Swift’s cancelled Eras Tour dates in Vienna. The three Vienna dates (Aug. 8-10) were nixed on Aug. 7 and were the first cancelled shows of the tour, which began on March 17, 2023. On Aug. 15, the tour continued on to its scheduled five-night stand at London’s Wembley Stadium (Aug. 15-17, 19-20), for The Eras Tour’s final shows in Europe.

 

During the last day (Aug. 15) of the chart’s tracking week, Swift introduced one all-new digital album variant of Poets on her official webstore, which was available for six hours and sold for $4.99. The set included the standard album’s 16 songs, plus one exclusive bonus track, “The Prophecy (Long Story Short – Live From Lyon),” recorded during The Eras Tour on June 2.

 

Also on Aug. 15, for only six hours, Swift’s webstore restocked a $4.99 digital album variant that was available briefly the previous tracking week — it contained the standard album’s 16 songs plus a live version of “thank You aimEe (Mean – Live from London),” recorded on June 22 during her The Eras Tour. In the previous tracking week, the same digital album variant was sold in Swift’s webstore, but with one slight difference — the stylization of the letters in the title of bonus live song. It was initially stylized as “thanK you aIMee” (mirroring the studio version on the Poets album), and then on Aug. 15, its stylization changed to “thank You aimEe.” The capitalization of the specific letters in the title — KIM and YE — could reference Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband (and longtime Swift foe), Ye, formerly Kanye West.

 

In the tracking week ending Aug. 15, Tortured Poets sold nearly 10,000 in digital album downloads across all variants through all sellers (including her webstore, the iTunes Store and others). Even if Poets had not sold a single digital album in the latest tracking week, it still would have been No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The No. 2 title, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, trails Poets by 13,000 units.

 

As for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, the album reaches a new peak for a third week in a row, as it steps 3-2 with 72,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week by units earned; up 13%). In the last 10 weeks, the album has steadily inched its way up the list. It broke into the top 10 on the June 22-dated chart, rising 12-10. It has since moved 8-6-5-5-7-8-4-3-2.

 

The 3-2 ascent for Rise reflects the tracking week that contained a buzzy festival performance from Roan — her Aug. 11 gig at Outside Lands in San Francisco. The latter generated a quasi-viral moment where she chastised the VIP section for not singing along to the album’s “Hot To Go!”

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 4-3 on the latest Billboard 200 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). It also claims a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.

 

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft steps 5-4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 (up 1%), while Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene climbs 7-5 with 48,000 (though down 6%).

 

Charli XCX’s Brat is a non-mover at No. 6 (47,000; down 16%); Noah Kahan’s Stick Season steps 9-7 (just over 38,000; up 3%); Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 8 (38,000; up 2%); Twisters: The Album rises 10-9 (34,000; down 7%); and Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper returns to the top 10, climbing 12-10 (nearly 34,000; up 6%).