Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' Debuts at No. 1 With 2.6 Million Units
Marking the highest-selling album of 2024 so far.
Taylor Swift is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 with The Tortured Poets Department.
The artist’s latest full-length effort debuts with a whopping 2.61 million equivalent album units in its first week, including 1.914 million album sales from over 20 different iterations of the album, 683,000 streaming equivalent album units and 14,000 in track equivalent album units. The Tortured Poets Department gives Swift her 14th No. 1, tying her with JAY-Z for the most No. 1 efforts amongst solo artists. To top it off, the record is the highest-selling album of 2024 so far and set a new record for the largest streaming week for any album in history.
Also making its debut on this week’s chart is Pearl Jam with Dark Matter, which earned 59,000 equivalent album units in its first week. The sum includes 52,000 in album sales, 7,000 in streaming equivalent album units and the rest int rack equivalent album units.
Elsewhere in this week’s top 10 are Future and Metro Boomin’s WE DON’T TRUST YOU at No. 2, followed by Beyoncé at No. 3 and Morgan Wallen at No. 4. Future and Young Metro’s sophomore joint album, WE SITLL DON’T TRUST YOU, falls to No. 6, while Noah Kahan and Benson Boone chart at Nos. 7 and 8, respectively. Finally, SZA moves down one spot to No. 9 while Swift makes a second appearance at No. 10.
