Taylor Swift Makes Historic Debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ https://t.co/XIml7lFEuC
— billboard (@billboard) April 28, 2024
To no one’s surprise, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4), making it her 14th No. 1 album on the chart.
The album sold 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, with traditional album sales (digital download albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) being 1.914 million. Of that sales figure, vinyl sales were 859,000. The 31 songs deluxe edition of the album generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.
Her album sales were bolstered by its availability across 19 different physical configurations (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes, with four of the physical configurations exclusively sold by Target stores) and two digital download offerings (the standard 16-song album, and a surprise deluxe 31-song edition that was released two hours after the original album dropped).
TTPD is the seventh Swift album to have sold at least 1 million copies in a single week, following the debuts of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, OG 1989, Red and Speak Now.
[Billboard’s recap of the top 10 biggest-selling weeks by albums in the modern era (1991-present), ranked in order by sales volume.]Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Adele, 25, 3.378 million, Dec. 12, 2015
2, *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2.416 million, April 8, 2000
3, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 1.914 million, May 4, 2024
4, *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1.88 million, Aug. 11, 2001
5, Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1.76 million, June 10, 2000
6, Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1.591 million, Dec. 9, 2000
7, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.359 million, Nov. 11, 2023
8, Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1.322 million, June 15, 2002*
9, Britney Spears, Oops! …I Did It Again, 1.319 million, June 3, 2000
10, Taylor Swift, 1989, 1.287 million, Nov. 15, 2014
My mind is blown. I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album.
2.6 million ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?? Thank you for listening, streaming, and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed.
I was already so fired up to get back to the tour… pic.twitter.com/L7lS7WTa2Y— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 28, 2024
What do you MEAN https://t.co/Ziuoib3AOb
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 28, 2024
