official chart Lover debuts at no 1 on Billboard’s Catalog Albums

[DesiredConsternation]

 

 

[DesiredConsternation]

7 minutes ago, DesiredConsternation said:

 

 

Taylor Swift's "Lover" is the first ever album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard Catalog Album chart since its creation.

[Badgalbriel]

Oh great. Taylor is going to be the queen of this chart 

[RobynYoBank]

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

Oh great. Taylor is going to be the queen of this chart 

TV will wipe all of her albums off this chart for years except Lover 

[Space Cowboy]

What are the requirements to be a “catalog album”

[Badgalbriel]

3 minutes ago, RobynYoBank said:

TV will wipe all of her albums off this chart for years except Lover 

Ohhhh that's true. Welp 

[fridayteenage]

12 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

What are the requirements to be a “catalog album”

Yeah im confused lover wasn't here already. Maybe 200 weeks?

[Nights]

18 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

What are the requirements to be a “catalog album”

I think it's albums older than 2 years (or 3 years?) that have at some point fallen out the top 100 on the Billboard 200.

[cat1867]

7 minutes ago, fridayteenage said:

Yeah im confused lover wasn't here already. Maybe 200 weeks?

Our fellows over a pulse music board realized that the Billboard wasn't following its own catalogue rules, complained, and so Billboard corrected the error and reclassified lover as a catalogue album. The rule is that an album counts as a catalogue if its more than 18 months old and has fallen below position 100 at some point. 

[Summer Boy]

wait, can someone explain this chart to me? Because The Fame and Teenage Dream, which are much older than Lover, are still charting on the BB200, right? 

[Cruel Summer]

If anyone else was curious, I had to look it up - Lover has only spent three weeks in its entire chart run below #100. The first was Evermore's second week, and the other two happened in April 2022.

[Isaiah]

48 minutes ago, Summer Boy said:

wait, can someone explain this chart to me? Because The Fame and Teenage Dream, which are much older than Lover, are still charting on the BB200, right? 

Yes you're correct.

Just because albums are on this chart, doesn't mean they aren't allowed to also chart on the bb200. Lover 1989 and reputation are 1-2-3 on this chart and all of them are top 25 on the bb200 this week. Teenage Dream & TFM are on both as well.

[cat1867]

49 minutes ago, Summer Boy said:

wait, can someone explain this chart to me? Because The Fame and Teenage Dream, which are much older than Lover, are still charting on the BB200, right? 

Lover is still charting in the BB 200. It was 6 last week. Its a chart like the country album charts that doesn't prevent albums from charting on the main chart.

 

An album is classified as  catalog if its older than 18 months and at one point charted below 100 on the Billboard top 200.

[MingYouToo]

3 hours ago, RobynYoBank said:

TV will wipe all of her albums off this chart for years except Lover 

Taylor a flop in the catalog chart. Why?

[Fifteen]

9 minutes ago, MingYouToo said:

Taylor a flop in the catalog chart. Why?

I can see it

OT: Lover getting multiple weeks at #1 in this chart would be a kii

[PrudenceHCharmed]

Didn't we have this kind of chart before?

[Steve Johnson]

39 minutes ago, MingYouToo said:

Taylor a flop in the catalog chart. Why?

L*ve Again making this thread as we speak. 

[Summer Boy]

9 hours ago, Isaiah said:

Yes you're correct.

Just because albums are on this chart, doesn't mean they aren't allowed to also chart on the bb200. Lover 1989 and reputation are 1-2-3 on this chart and all of them are top 25 on the bb200 this week. Teenage Dream & TFM are on both as well.

 

9 hours ago, cat1867 said:

Lover is still charting in the BB 200. It was 6 last week. Its a chart like the country album charts that doesn't prevent albums from charting on the main chart.

 

An album is classified as  catalog if its older than 18 months and at one point charted below 100 on the Billboard top 200.

oh okay, thank you guys! I thought it was some kind of recurrent chart