Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 10), and has remained there again for its 14th week (dated Aug. 17) at the top of the charts.
The Tortured Poets Department had spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 before falling to No. 4 for two weeks, and then climbing back to #1. Swift’s reign over the Billboard 200 ended in late July when it was knocked off the top spot by Eminem’s latest record, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), on the chart dated July 27.
Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 debuts at No. 2 with 107,000 equivalent album units, marking the 13th album from Ye to reach the top two (his entirety of charting releases), while Ty Dolla $ign ups his tally of top 10s to three. Vultures 2, released on Saturday (Aug. 3), is the long-awaited sequel to the chart-topping Vultures 1, which opened atop the Feb. 24-dated chart with 148,000 units.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rose from its prior No. 4 best to No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 20%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time dropped to #4 with 63,000 equivalent album units (down 2%), and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft remained steady at No. 5 with 57,000 units (up 8%). Charli XCX’s Brat jumped to #6 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (up 39%), following the release of the album’s “Guess” remix with Eilish on Aug. 1.
Per Billboard, the last album to spend at least 14 weeks at No. 1 was Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which logged 19 total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 between March 2023-March 2024. The last album by a woman to spend at least 14 total weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks on top in 2011-12.
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