Taylor Swift Surpasses Whitney Houston for Most Weeks at No. 1 Among Women in Billboard 200’s History

Plus: New albums by Alicia Keys, Keith Urban, Moneybagg Yo/Blac Youngsta and Lil Tecca debut in top 10.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, collecting a seventh nonconsecutive week atop the tally. In doing so, Swift surpasses Whitney Houston’s longstanding record, among women, for the most cumulative weeks at No. 1, across all of her chart-topping albums. Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 now stands at 47, one more than Houston’s tally of 46. Folklore earned 87,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 24 (up 97 percent), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Oct. 3-dated chart (where Folklore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Sept. 29. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

 

Of Folklore’s 87,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Sept. 24, album sales comprise 56,000 (up 339 percent), SEA units comprise 30,000 (down 4 percent) equaling 39.8 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units total 1,000 (up 38 percent).

 

Folklore’s fortunes perked up in the newest tracking week, as Swift sold more signed CD copies of the album through her official webstore and via independent record stores (as she’s done in previous weeks) and also issued more merchandise/album bundles in her webstore. She additionally profits from the release of a new live version of the album’s single “Betty,” as performed on the Academy of Country Music Awards (held on Sept. 16). The live rendition was released to YouTube shortly after the awards, while it reached digital retail and other streaming services on Sept. 18. For tracking purposes, the new version of “Betty” is combined with its original version.

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https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9455925/taylor-swift-folklore-number-1-seven-weeks-billboard-200-passes-whitney-houston

 

Billboard 200: #1(+3) @taylorswift13, folklore 87,000 (1,586,000 units since release). *re-peak; seventh week at #1*

Billboard 200: #2(=) Pop Smoke, Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon 75,000 (1,265,000 units since release). *peak: #1*

Billboard 200: #3(-2) YoungBoy Never Broke Again (@GGYOUNGBOY), TOP 63,000 (189,000 units since release). *peak: #1*

Billboard 200: #4(new) @aliciakeys, Alicia 62,000 (51,000 in pure sales).

Billboard 200: #5(-2) Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die 51,000 (1,346,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 2 weeks*

Billboard 200: #6(new) @MoneyBaggYo & @BlacYoungstaFB, Code Red 40,000 [51.5 million on-demand streams].

Billboard 200: #7(new) @KeithUrban, 'The Speed of Now, Part 1' 40,000 (27,000 in pure sales).

Billboard 200: #9(-3) @lilbaby4PF, My Turn 38,000 (1,881,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 5 weeks*

Billboard 200: #10(new) @liltecca, Virgo World 34,000 [42.6 million on-demand streams].

 

BTS' 'Dynamite' Back to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100, Justin Bieber & Chance the Rapper's 'Holy' Debuts at No. 3

Bieber earns his 20th Hot 100 top 10.

BTS' "Dynamite" rebounds for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

 

Plus, Justin Bieber's "Holy," featuring Chance the Rapper, debuts at No. 3 on the Hot 100. Notably, the song is the 20th Hot 100 top 10 for Bieber, who becomes the 20th artist in the chart's history to reach the milestone.

 

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Oct. 3) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Sept. 29). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9456164/bts-dynamite-number-one-third-week-hot-100

 

Hot 100

 

Dynamite (+1) [3x #1]

#2 WAP (-1)

#3 Holy (NEW)

#4 Laugh Now Cry Later (-1)

#5 Mood (+1)

#6 Rockstar (-2)

#7 Blinding Lights (-2)

#8 Watermelon Sugar (-1)

#9 Savage Love (-1)

#10 I Hope (+1)

 

#51 Diamonds (NEW)

#62 One Two Many (NEW)

#70 Without You (NEW)

#90 Me Gusta (NEW)

#89 When You Down (NEW)

#91 Wet. (She Got That...) [NEW]

#92 Whole Lotta Choppas (NEW)

#94 Blind (NEW)

#95 Dolly (NEW)

A frontloaded flop!

Kim cancelled Her!

Flopklore

We want eight!

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The Beatles (132 weeks), Elvis Presley (67), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Taylor Swift (47)

Hopefully she joins the top 3 by next era.

Her nonstop stomping is getting boring 

Legend 

3 minutes ago, fridayteenage said:

Hopefully she joins the top 3 by next era.

There's a possibility in this era too.

Up there with the legends 

That's huge 

Queen of Country-alt-pop! 

I can't even begin to fathom this. the biggest female Artist OF ALL TIME in the US

America's biggest female artist of all time  

The way we were praying for 3 weeks at #1 and we ended up getting 7 (so far)

can't wait for the locals to fume when they hear this

Wow

The biggest female artist alive I fear 

. And exile has yet to be reached.

And some acts that debuted around her time can't even manage to chart for 7 weeks in the Top 100.

Her longevity, her power, etc etc

Only the biggest American artist

She’ll probably be 2nd when it’s all said and done. 

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Pop Smoke with all them weeks at #2

I need at least three more weeks + Grammy AOTY and Best Alternative Music Album

 

 

Country - Fearless (11 weeks #1, AOTY, Best Country Album)

 

Two albums later...

 

Pop - 1989 (11 weeks #1, AOTY, Best Pop Album)

 

Two albums later...

 

Alternative - Folklore (10+ weeks #1, AOTY, Best Alternative Album)

 

 

Make it happen, Taylor!

 

She’s impressive and in a league of her own 

she’s so massive 

Unprecedented