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Taylor Swift lands 12th No. 1 album on Billboard 200 chart (July 22) Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)She also has 10 previous No. 1 hits with three, marking the first time in 60 years that a living artist has had at least four albums in the top 10 at the same time.
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) She joins former chart toppers. Midnight (Fall 4-5) Lover (8-7) and Folklore (13-10) She is the first live act to have four albums in the Top 10 at the same time since the chart’s entry on April 2, 1966, when Herb Alpert had four albums in the Top 10.Places to go On number 2, Whipped cream and other fun things On number 3, South of the border In verse 9 and of A lonely bull in verse 10).
Between Alpert and Swift, only one other act has placed at least four titles in the top 10, and that was his death in 2016, when he had five albums in the top 10 on May 14, 2016. That week, purple reigned in the top 10 The best of the prince (1-2 falls), the Purple rain Soundtrack (With the Revolution, 2-3); Hits/The B-sides (6-4), last one (61-6) and In 1999 (31-7). (Swift is the only woman with four albums in the same top 10 since the Billboard 200 merged the previously separate mono and stereo album charts into one comprehensive list in August 1963.)
The Billboard 200 chart measures the week’s most popular albums in the U.S. based on several consumption metrics, compiled by Luminet and measured by units of the same album. Categories include album sales, equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 single tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscribed official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 22, 2023-date chart will be posted in its entirety at BillboardWebsite on July 18. Follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram for all chart news.
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