official chart Billboard Charts (Week of December 21, 2024)

[Renan90]

 

Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' Logs 17th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

 

Plus: ROSÉ and TWICE debut in the top five, while Sabrina Carpenter's "Fruitcake" hits the top 10 for the first time.

 

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department notches a 17th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 21), as the set holds atop the list after rushing back to No. 1 a week ago after its deluxe Anthology edition was released on CD and vinyl exclusively at Target. In the tracking week ending Dec. 12, the album earned 240,000 equivalent album units (down 41%) in the U.S., according to Luminate, with over 80% of that sum driven by physical album sales.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart, ROSÉ's debut solo album rosie bows at No. 3, TWICE's Strategy enters at No. 4 and Sabrina Carpenter's holiday set Fruitcake reenters the chart at No. 10 for its first week in the top 10, after its wide physical release.

 

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. 21, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Tuesday (Dec. 17). 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-17th-week-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235857250/

 

 

Mariah Carey Ties Her Longest Hot 100 Rule With 16th Week at No. 1 for 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

 

The carol ties the reign of "One Sweet Day," with Boyz II Men, in 1995-96.

 

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" crowns the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th total week. The song matches her longest command on the chart, first set by "One Sweet Day," with Boyz II Men, in 1995-96.

 

The carol, which tops the Hot 100 for a second consecutive week this holiday season, also ties for the third-longest total domination in the chart's 66-year history, after only the 19-week No. 1 runs of Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" this year and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019.

 

Notably, with "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "One Sweet Day," Carey has logged the Hot 100's two longest-leading No. 1s by a woman artist. She's also tied for the third-longest reign among women, thanks to 14 weeks at No. 1 for "We Belong Together" in 2005.

 

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" additionally leads the Streaming Songs chart for a record-tying 20th total week, equaling "Old Town Road" for the longest No. 1 stay dating to the chart's 2013 start.

 

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" was originally released on Carey's album Merry Christmas in November 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services' playlists, it hit the Hot 100's top 10 for the first time in December 2017, and the top five for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. It led at last, prior to the past two weeks, over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four) and 2023 (two).

 

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" became Carey's 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from The Beatles' overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades (1990s, 2000s, '10s and '20s).

 

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 21, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 17). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/lists/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-hot-100-number-one-16-weeks/

[Taylor fanboy]

Robin Dessner's impact!
 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Taylor fanboy

[piotrert]

only 40% drop is devil's work

[Ger]

240k? Taylor wth

[Feanor]

6.75M album units after 34 weeks.

'Midnights' was "only" at ~5M units at the same point in its run. 'TTPD' is gonna hit diamond-eligibility in just 2-3 years.

[IBeMe]

Insane run so far! Honestly she should give this album a third single with a good mv as a farewell to the era 

[SleepingTigers]

Sabrina with two albums in the top 10 

[fridayteenage]

email I can't send: #23 peak

fruitcake: #10 peak

 

so wacky. shows how much huger she's gotten.

[Gui Blackout]

Solid debut for Rosé

[The Music Industry]

Taylor overperforming

[Blade Runner]

 

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!

[hallucinate]

rosé doing great  so happy for her

[americanlife]

Surprised at Rosie

[SharGaga]

I was supposed to be sent away but now they're coming to get me for topping the charts one too many times. 

[Popboi.]

Rosé doing BP numbers should be a wake up call to BP's management that those expensive CDs only hinder huge sales.

 

Incredible result for her, Taylor and Sabrina

[BrokenMachine]

At least Rosé wasn't blocked directly by Taylor. Still great numbers 

[MidnightsAtPeace]

2 hours ago, IBeMe said:

Insane run so far! Honestly she should give this album a third single with a good mv as a farewell to the era 

in a perfect world, we would have gotten the fifth and final music video of the era on new year's eve 

[Flames2Embers]

For ease:
 

Of The Tortured Poets Department's 240,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 12, traditional album sales comprise 201,000 (down 45%, it holds at No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a 10th nonconsecutive week), SEA units comprise 39,000 (up 6%; equaling 51.04 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs; it falls 9-10 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (up 27%).

TTPD was initially released on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as in an 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 boast four bonus acoustic tracks (which were previously released in other alternative versions of the album).

Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956, Poetsis only the 18th album to have spent at least 17 weeks at No. 1, of more than 1,200 leaders. The last album to spend at least 17 weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023 and this March. The last album by a woman to spend at least 17 weeks at No. 1 prior to Poets was Adele's 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.

Kendrick Lamar's former leader GNX is a non-mover at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 with 125,000 equivalent album units earned (down 24%). It remains at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a third straight week.

ROSÉ's solo debut album, rosie, launches at No. 3 with 102,000 equivalent album units earned. Pop group BLACKPINK, of which she is a member, has logged a pair of top 10s, including the chart-topping BORN PINK in 2022.

Of the 102,000 equivalent album units earned by rosie in its opening week, album sales comprise 70,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 31,000 (equaling 43.85 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs; it debuts at No. 17 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The set's first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 physical variants of the album across CD and vinyl editions, many including collectible ephemera (some randomized).

The album was led by the single "APT." with Bruno Mars, which debuted and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. It debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart, and has reached the top 30 on Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and the all-format Radio Songs charts.

TWICE captures its sixth total and consecutive top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as STRATEGY debuts at No. 4 with 88,000 equivalent album units earned. It's the second top 10 for the group in 2024, following their first chart-topper, With YOU-th (March 9-dated chart). Of the new set's first-week units, album sales comprise 81,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 6,500 (equaling 8.86 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs) and TEA units comprise less than 500 units. The album's first-week sales were aided by its availability across more than 15 CD and vinyl editions, all inclusive of collectible paper ephemera (some randomized).

Sabrina Carpenter's chart-topping Short n' Sweet is steady at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 (75,000 equivalent album units earned; up 10%); the Wicked film soundtrack falls 3-6 (74,000; down 31%); Michael Bublé's former leader Christmas is a non-mover at No. 7 (62,000; up 10%); Bing Crosby's Ultimate Christmas hits a new peak, rising 9-8 (56,000; up 13%); and Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft slips 6-9 (56,000; down 6%).

Carpenter captures a second album in the top 10, and the second top 10 of her career, as her holiday effort Fruitcake re-enters the chart at No. 10 (a new peak) following its wide physical release on CD, vinyl and cassette on Dec. 6. In the tracking week ending Dec. 12, Fruitcake earned 54,000 equivalent album units (up 1,040%), with album sales comprising 39,000 (up 27,326%; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and SEA units comprising 15,000 (up 210%, equaling 19.65 million on-demand official streams of set's songs).

Fruitcake was initially released in November 2023 as a digital download album for purchase and through streaming services. It had a limited vinyl release, exclusively through Carpenter's official webstore in December 2023. On Dec. 6, the album became widely available on CD, cassette and three vinyl variants (including one exclusive to Target).

Carpenter is the sixth artist in 2024 to have at least two albums in the top 10 at the same time. Previously this year, Zach Bryan, Future, Metro Boomin, Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen all notched multiple projects in the top 10 concurrently.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

[woohoo]

With the Xmas freeze and last minute shopping I wonder if Taylor can pull 20 weeks when it's all said and done 

[on the line]

Does Taylor have a chance at no 1 next week?

[Popboi.]

1 hour ago, woohoo said:

With the Xmas freeze and last minute shopping I wonder if Taylor can pull 20 weeks when it's all said and done 

Depends with how Stray Kids do this week, and if SZA will release at all this year.

[Prodigal Self]

lmao will we ever be free of that garbage

[chiliam]

12 hours ago, IBeMe said:

Insane run so far! Honestly she should give this album a third single with a good mv as a farewell to the era 

Down bad and Guilty as Sin was right there.

She needs to do at least 4 single/era again,dont cut them too short. Midnights has 3 singles and 4 videos, while not super successful, they made the era a real era 

[Feanor]

9 hours ago, woohoo said:

With the Xmas freeze and last minute shopping I wonder if Taylor can pull 20 weeks when it's all said and done 

7 hours ago, Popboi. said:

Depends with how Stray Kids do this week, and if SZA will release at all this year.

HDD is predicting Stray Kids to go #1 this week with 130-150k units. After that there's only 1 week left of Christmas shopping (if no one else drops next week ofc), so 18 weeks seems like the ceiling cause I think Kendrick will return to #1 post-Xmas week.

[Popboi.]

4 hours ago, Feanor said:

HDD is predicting Stray Kids to go #1 this week with 130-150k units. After that there's only 1 week left of Christmas shopping (if no one else drops next week ofc), so 18 weeks seems like the ceiling cause I think Kendrick will return to #1 post-Xmas week.

Yeah Kendrick will log a few weeks in January and then again after Super Bowl (unless SZA and/or another Kendrick album drops along the SB as it's rumored)