Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Division” registered 439,000 album-identical devices to near relieve because the No. 1 album within the U.S. in its 2nd week out, in step with records from Luminate first reported in Billboard. That’s an 89% tumble from its huge debut week, when it racked up 2.61 million devices. Nonetheless the 439K is composed powerful elevated than every other album has accumulated in any week in 2024 to this level, making it the one year’s 2nd-easiest tally to this level.
Furthermore, the 2nd week figure for “Tortured Poets” is also the finest 2nd-week quantity for any album in nine years. The final time an album did any higher in its sophomore session used to be in 2015, when Adele’s “25” did 1.162 million in its 2nd week.
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Swift now has possession of the head two weekly album figures in 2024. The 439,000 for “Poets” in week 2 is appropriate sooner than the 407,000 that Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” racked up in its first week final month.
Of that 439,000 in album-identical devices, 107,000 devices were stout-album gross sales, while streaming accounted for 330,000 of that figure, in step with a system that interprets streams into chart devices. The album picked up 428.54 million on-ask streams in week 2, in step with Billboard.
“Tortured Poets” didn’t possess any competition for its build, incomes about six times as many devices because the closest runner-up. Morgan Wallen’s “One Speak at a Time” came in 2nd web website with 69,000 devices, followed by Future and Metro Boomin (61,000), Beyoncé (52,000) and Noah Kahan (41,000).
Partynextdoor had the suitable new entry within the head 10 of the Billboard 200, coming into at No. 10 with 34,000 devices for “Partynextdoor 4 (P4).”