Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department tops the Billboard Hot 200 for 15th week...
and it's NOT due to digital variants By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:26 EDT, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 21:26 EDT, 19 August 2024 e-mail View comments Taylor Swift continued to assert her dominance by topping the Billboard Hot 200 chart for the 15th consecutive week with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. The 34-year-old pop star successfully moved another 85K equivalent album units in the States of the album (13K more than newcomer Chappell Roan), so she would've still been number one even if she sold zero digital album downloads this past week - according to Billboard .
Some in the industry had criticized Taylor for 'blocking' her rivals by continuously dropping new digital variants and live versions of TTPD, which amassed yet another 10K downloads this week. Among Swift's recent digital variants were The Prophecy (Long Story Short – Live From Lyon) recorded on June 2 and thank You aimEe (Mean – Live from London) recorded on June 22. When the 14-time Grammy winner debuted The Anthology double-album edition on April 18, all 31 tracks occupied the top 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time in chart history.
Taylor Swift continued to assert her dominance by topping the Billboard Hot 200 chart for the 15th consecutive week with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department The 34-year-old pop star successfully moved another.