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Taylor Swift ’s The Tortured Poets Department captures a 12th consecutive and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated July 20) — beating 1989 and Fearless (each with 11 weeks at No. 1) as her longest-leading No.

1 album. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Tortured Poets Department earned 163,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.



in the week ending July 11 (up 43% — its first gain in seven weeks), according to Luminate. The album debuted atop the chart dated May 4 and has yet to yield the No. 1 slot.

The Tortured Poets Department surpasses Whitney Houston’s 1987 album Whitney to become the only album by a woman to spend its first 12 weeks at No. 1. The latter spent all 11 of its weeks atop the list from its debut frame (June 27, 1987-dated chart).

Only two other albums have spent at least their first 12 weeks at No. 1: Morgan Wallen ’s One Thing at a Time (first 12 weeks at No. 1, of its total 19 weeks at No.

1 in 2023-24) and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (first 13 weeks at No. 1, of its total 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1976).

(For context, today it’s common for albums to debut at No. 1. However, before 1991, when the Billboard 200 began utilizing Luminate’s electronically monitored tracking information, only six albums debuted at No.

1, including Whitney and Songs in the Key of Life .) Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Zach Bryan ’s The Great American Bar Scene soars 17-2 in its first .

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