Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is back in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart for the first time in more than six months, as the 2024 set jumps from No. 18 to No. 10 on the chart dated Aug. 30, following the Aug. 12 announcement of her forthcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl (due Oct. 3).
The next day (Aug. 13), she appeared on a highly watched episode of her now-fiancé’s podcast, New Heights, to discuss the upcoming release.
Poets spent 17 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 beginning in May 2024, the most weeks atop the list of any of Swift’s 14 No. 1 albums.
Swift has a total of 10 albums on the latest Billboard 200, with five of them in the top 40. It’s not uncommon for Swift to have a bevy of albums on the chart in any given week, though this week marks the first time she’s had five albums in the top 40 at the same time since the Jan. 25-dated chart.
Here’s a look at all of Swift’s albums on the latest Billboard 200 chart, dated Aug. 30:
Rank, Title (Last Week’s Rank)
No. 10, The Tortured Poets Department (No. 18)
No. 20, Lover (No. 38)
No. 21, folklore (No. 29)
No. 26, reputation (No. 32)
No. 28, Midnights (No. 44)
No. 50, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (No. 87)
No. 57, Red (Taylor’s Version) (No. 111)
No. 82, 1989 (No. 98)
No. 123, evermore (No. 193)
No. 177, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (reentry)
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.
In the 10 days following Showgirl’s announcement (Aug. 12-21), Swift’s catalog of albums earned 299,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That’s an increase of 43% as compared to the 10 days prior (208,000; Aug. 2-11). Further, in terms of song streams, Swift’s catalog of songs tallied 334.7 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. during the Aug. 12-21 frame — a gain of 39% versus the 10 days prior (241.57 million, Aug. 2-11).
