This week’s look at the pop charts finds Taylor Swift back at the top of the Billboard 200 for a 13th nonconsecutive week — a sign of both her staying power and a dearth of major new releases. Elsewhere, country music rises and K-pop falls, while the songs chart has great news for you if you’re a fan of either Shaboozey or stasis. TOP ALBUMS Last week, the Billboard 200’s two top spots were held by K-pop titans: Stray Kids’ Ate and Jimin’s Muse made their chart debuts at No.
1 and No. 2, respectively. It was a major milestone for K-pop, which had never locked down the top two until that moment.
The milestone, it turns out, was short-lived: This week , Stray Kids fell from No. 1 to a still-strong No. 6, while Jimin dropped from No.
2 to No. 17. With last week’s debuts fading, the summer doldrums underway and no juggernauts entering this week’s chart — the loftiest debut belongs to Ice Spice’s Y2K! at No.
18 — the perennial powerhouses have settled back into their usual spots at or near the top of the chart. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department , which topped the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks earlier in the spring and summer, jumps back to No. 1 after two weeks at No.
4, extending several of Swift’s all-time records: It’s posted the most weeks at No. 1 of any Swift album and it extends Swift’s record of most overall weeks at No. 1 for any solo artist, with 82.
(Elvis Presley, at No. 2, is a relative pauper among solo acts with 67; though not a.