Taylor Swift passes The Beatles for most weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 over the past 60 years

Taylor Swift carves another one Advertising sign chart record as she surpasses The Beatles for the most weeks spent in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart over the past 60 years across all of her top 10 albums combined.

As of the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated March 2), Swift has three albums in the top 10, which brings her cumulative total of weeks in the top 10 to 384 — across all 16 top 10 albums on the chart combined. It's in the top 10 of the latest list with three former No. 1s: 1989 (Taylor Edition) at No. 6, Lover in No. 7 and Midnight at No. 9.

Since the Billboard 200 combined its previous separate mono and stereo album charts on the chart dated August 17, 1963, Swift now has the most weeks in the top 10. She surpasses The Beatles, who have a combined 382 weeks in the Top 10 across their 32 albums with the top 10 charts. (The Billboard 200 began publication on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.)

Swift first visited the top 10 on the chart on November 24, 2007, when her self-titled debut climbed 26-8. The Beatles first entered the top 10 on the chart on February 8, 1964, when Meet the Beatles! vaulted 92-3. The Beatles were last in the top 10 on the chart dated 12 November 2022, when a deluxe reissue of the 1966 album Revolver pushed it back into the list at No. 4.

Among Swift's top 10 albums, the one with the most weeks in the top 10 is Midnight, with 68 weeks in the region. Followed by 1989 (60), Fearless (58), Lover (54) and Folklore (30).

As for the Beatles, the band's five albums with the most weeks in the top 10 are Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (35), Abbey Road, A hard day's night (28 each), Meet the Beatles! (21) and 1 (20).

After Swift and the Beatles among the acts with the most weeks in the top 10 (since August 1963) are the Rolling Stones (with 309), Barbra Streisand (277) and Drake and Mariah Carey (233 each).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album. The new chart dated March 2, 2024 will be posted in full on Advertising signon the user's website on February 27. For all the new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.