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Taylor Swift's Dominance Continues

Singer Retains Top Position on Billboard Albums Chart

Aug 20, 2024 07:41 162

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Singer Taylor Swift leads 15th week at No. 1 on the "Billboard" for albums, the publication's website announced.

Swift maintains her lead with The Tortured Poets Department, which sold 85,000 equivalent units in the one-week reporting period.

Marking 15 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, Taylor Swift is tied with Carole King, with whom she shares the third spot among women. The artists with more weeks at the top of the chart are only Adele with the album 21 (24 weeks) and Whitney Houston with the soundtrack to the movie "Bodyguard" (20 weeks).

Taylor Swift has spent a total of 84 weeks at the top of the "Billboard" with 14 albums, breaking his own record among solo artists. Leaders in this indicator are "Beatles" with 132 weeks at the top.

No.2 on the Billboard 200 chart goes to singer-songwriter Chappelle Roan with 72,000 equivalent units sold for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Roan has climbed one position compared to the previous week.

In a week that again saw no new albums in the Top 10, country singer Morgan Wallen was third with 63,000 equivalent units sold of One Thing at a Time.

The top five on the Billboard 200 album chart is rounded out by Billie Eilish with Hit Me Hard and Soft (57,000 equivalent units sold) and Zac Bryan with The Great American Bar Scene (48,000 equivalent units sold).