Yep, Taylor Swift still #1 on Billboard 200 with ‘Tortured Poets,’ while Don Toliver’s ‘Hardstone Psycho’ launches at #3
It’s nine weeks and counting for Taylor Swift, whose “Tortured Poets Department” refuses to relinquish the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart. But while it was stable at the top, there was plenty of activity in the top 10 with four new albums getting off to a good start there. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
“Tortured Poets” achieved 126,000 equivalent album units based on its combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams. That’s down just one-percent week-to-week because she cranked out another two CD variants of the collection. Meanwhile, Billie Eilish‘s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” stayed steady at number-two with 84,000 units.
Don Toliver‘s “Hardstone Psycho” debuted at number-three with 76,500 units, the best total ever for the artist. Morgan Wallen‘s “One Thing at a Time” held on to number-four with 73,000 units. And $uicideboy$ debuted at number-five with “New World Depression” achieving 66,000 units. Also in the top 10, Luke Combs debuted with “Fathers and Sons” at number-six (60,000 units) and Nayeon came in at number-seven with “NA” (47,000 units).
In our weekly Billboard 200 predictions contest, most game players correctly predicted that Swift supremacy would continue with “Tortured Poets” repeating at number-one. Our odds were also right that it would achieve between 100,000 and 149,999 units for yet another week and that “Hit Me Hard and Soft” would follow again at number-two.
Only one person anticipated “Hardstone Psycho” at number-three, but our consensus was right again about “One Thing at a Time” at the number-four spot. “New World Depression” wasn’t in our predictions center this week, and none of our users correctly picked “None of These” for number-five. But 14 users — myself included — managed to get four out of six prediction questions correct. How did you do? Find out here.
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