Taylor Swift spends second week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 with 'The Tortured Poets Department'

By Taylor Swift Department of Tormented Poets remains steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated May 11) in its second week, gaining 439,000 equivalent US album units in the week ending May 2 (down 83%), according to Luminate. It topped the chart a week ago with a whopping 2.61 million units.

Although the set is down 83%, it still marks the biggest second week, by units, for any album since the Adele era 25 grossed 1.162 million units in its second week (chart dated December 12, 2015, up from 3.482 million in its opening week).

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, PARTYNEXTDOOR debuts at No. 10 with PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4).

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 May 11, 2024 will be posted in full on Advertising signon the user's website on May 7. For all the new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Department of Tormented PoetsThe second week's unit total is 439,000, SEA units consist of 330,000 (down 52%, accounting for the set's 428.54 million official song streams on demand), traditional album sales include 107,000 (down 94%) and 2,000 TEA units (2,000 reduction). 82%).

The rest of the Billboard 200's top four titles are former No. 1. Morgan Wallen's One thing at a time rises 4-2 (69,000 equivalent albums, up 8%), Future and Metro Boomin's We Don't Trust You falls 2-3 (61,000, down 11%) and Beyoncé Cowboy Carter dips 3-4 (52,000, down 21%). By Noah Kahan Stick Season rounds out the top five, going 7-5 (41,000, down 10%).

The top of Wallen's graph Dangerous: The Double album climbs 11-6 (his highest rank since charting at No. 5 on July 29, 2023) with 40,000 equivalent album units (up 9%). Benson Boone's Fireworks & Rollerblades slips 8-7 (40,000, down 1%), former Future and Metro Boomin leader We Still Don't Trust You falls 6-8 (39,000, down 28%) and SZA tops warning sign is steady at No. 9 (nearly 39,000, down 1%).

Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 is PARTYNEXTDOOR and his arrival PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) at No. 10. Released with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that amount, SEA units make up 34,000 (equivalent to 45.94 million official streams of the set's on-demand songs), album sales make up 3,000, and TEA units make up a negligible amount. PARTYNEXTDOOR4 marks the singer/songwriter and producer's third set of top 10 charts, following PARTYMOBILE (No. 8 in 2020) and PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3) (No. 3 in 2016).

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