In its second week of launch, Taylor Swift’s newest blockbuster album, “The Tortured Poets Division,” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, practically doubling the remainder of the Prime 5 mixed.
One week after tallying the biggest opening week since Adele in 2015 — promoting the equal of two.6 million albums in america — “The Tortured Poets Division” offered one other 439,000 album models, down 83 p.c, in line with Billboard, however nonetheless the very best second-week whole since Adele’s “25” virtually a decade in the past. Final month, Beyoncé’s newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” opened with 407,000 gross sales in its debut, then the most important gross sales week for any launch thus far this yr.
Whereas Swift’s whole final week included 1.9 million copies in conventional album gross sales — 859,000 for vinyl alone — and factored prematurely orders, that quantity dipped 94 p.c in week two, to 107,000. As a substitute, “The Tortured Poets Division” was consumed largely through digital streaming this time, with about 429 million performs of the album’s 31 tracks, down from a file 891 million the week prior.
Additionally on this week’s chart, the nation singer Morgan Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time,” launched in March 2023, jumps two spots to No. 2, with 69,000 models. Future and Metro Boomin’s “We Don’t Belief You,” the primary of the pair’s two latest albums (and the one that includes Kendrick Lamar dissing Drake on the hit single “Like That”), is No. 3 with 61,000 models. Rounding out the Prime 5 is “Cowboy Carter” at No. 4 with 52,000 models and Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” at No. 5 with 41,000 models.
