Taylor Swift ’s The Tortured Poets Department reaches a 15th week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 24) — tying Carole King’s Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women.
The latter spent 15 frames 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. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Tortured Poets earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.
in the week ending Aug. 15 (down 40%), according to Luminate. Meanwhile, in a quiet top 10 (where no albums debut for the second time in three weeks), Chappell Roan ’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits a new peak for the third week in a row, as it climbs 3-2 with 72,000 units (up 13%), a new weekly high, by units, for the set.
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 Aug.
24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard ‘s website on Aug. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboa.