official chart Billboard Charts (Week of December 14, 2024)

[Renan90]

 

Taylor Swift's 'TTPD' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for 16th Week After Physical Release of 'Anthology' Edition

 

Plus: Juice WRLD's "The Party Never Ends" debuts in the top five, while Bing Crosby returns to the top 10 for the first time in nearly 64 years.

 

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set vaults 8-1 on the chart dated Dec. 14, following the first physical release of the album's deluxe Anthology edition, exclusively at Target in the U.S. The set earned 405,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 5 — up 839% — according to Luminate, largely driven by physical album sales. It's the biggest week for any album since Poets' second week, when it tallied 439,000 units.

 

TTPD was initially released on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as an in array of 17-song physical configurations. Two hours after the album dropped, Swift issued an expanded 31-song edition of the album, dubbed The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, which added 15 additional songs. However, the Anthology edition was only available as a digital download and streaming set until Nov. 29, when its CD and vinyl editions became available for purchase exclusively through Target. The Target CD and vinyl additionally boasted four bonus acoustic tracks (which were previously released in other alternative versions of the album).

 

The announcement of Poets' return to No. 1 comes on the same day (Dec. 8) that Swift closes her globe-trotting, stadium-filling The Eras Tour in Vancouver, after 149 dates. The retrospective trek launched in March 2023 and visited 21 countries across five continents.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Juice WRLD's The Party Never Ends debuts at No. 4, securing the late rapper his sixth top five-charting set. Plus, the top 10 is getting festive, as the region welcomes its first holiday titles this season: Michael Bublé's former No. 1 Christmas jingles 12-7 and Bing Crosby's new compilation Ultimate Christmas dashes 18-9. With the latter, Crosby claims his first top 10 album in nearly 64 years.

 

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, compiled by Luminate. 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 Dec. 14, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Tuesday (Dec. 10). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-number-one-anthology-target-billboard-200-1235847986/

Edited December 9, 2024 by Renan90

[Cruel Summer]

Four months at #1 with one album, legend 

[IBeMe]

amazing  when do we get the numbers?

[Popboi.]

[SylMacPer]

a legend 

[Ms. Togekiss]

How many units? 

[Squall]

I mean, at least wait for the actual article and numbers, I thought they were out

[The Music Industry]

But ATRL will try convincing us that it's not the biggest album of 2024 

[yourfaveisaflop]

That's MOTHER 

[Renan90]

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-number-one-anthology-target-billboard-200-1235847986/

[YellowRibbon]

405K!!! Only 3K away from being the third biggest week of the year!

Edited December 8, 2024 by YellowRibbon

[Hunter_13]

Of TTPD's 368,000 album sales for the week, vinyl sales comprise 191,000 (up 3,284%) and CD sales comprise 177,000 (up 7,738%), largely driven by sales from the exclusive editions sold at Target. (Digital download and cassette sales comprise a negligible sum for the week.)

 

 

Oh the cds smashed too. I guess since the vinyl sold out so quick that's all people could buy. Slay 

[Zaram]

20 minutes ago, The Music Industry said:

But ATRL will try convincing us that it's not the biggest album of 2024 

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album and not some confused Swifties 

[Popboi.]

4 minutes ago, Zaram said:

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album and not some confused Swifties 

Even when removing all physical variants and all digital download she has the most consumed album of the year, so. 

[AshleyLovescats887]

TTPD the overhated diva that you are will forever be one of my favorite albums of all time.

[pride4jc1222]

Taylor Swift's birth chart (iconic Top 3)

 

December 16, 1989

01 01 We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel (2nd and final week at #1)
02 02 Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins
03 05 Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville

[1989]

Incredible 

[Michael196]

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With a 16th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, The Tortured Poets Department now solely has the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women (since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956). It steps past Carole King's Tapestry, which registered 15 weeks at No. 1 in 1971. Only Adele's 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have more weeks at No. 1 among women.

Insane 

 

[aotearoa]

[dumbsparce]

I just found out that her tour concludes tonight and her bday is in a few days. There's no way she won't announce sth today.

[Dear Reader]

Not some people already fuming, she's so powerful omg 

 

[greento]

1 hour ago, Zaram said:

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album and not some confused Swifties 

The GP are Swifties at this point, haven't we already established that? 

Edited December 8, 2024 by greento

[By the Water]

1 hour ago, Zaram said:

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album and not some confused Swifties 

The GP is fickle. One day they're streaming your Bruno Mars collab, the next one they're ignoring your solo single 

 

Having a fanbase will never be a drag. Artists need one or they'll just end up joining Katy's boat

[Hunter_13]

1 hour ago, Zaram said:

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album and not some confused Swifties 

Having a loyal fanbase isn't the drag you think it is. 

[Feanor]

1 hour ago, Zaram said:

I'm sure the GP is buying the thousand variant of a 6? month old album 

and not some confused Swifties 

Clearly they are, given the fact that the album sold more units this week than any other album release this entire year except for one.

Unless you're suggesting that all these other artists lack GP support?