Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Racks Up 439,000 Objects in Week 2, the Simplest Second Week for Any Album Since 2015

Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Division” registered 439,000 album-equal units to return because the No. 1 album within the U.S. in its 2d week out, in conserving with records from Luminate first reported in Billboard. That’s an 89% tumble from its massive debut week, when it racked up 2.61 million units. Nonetheless the 439Okay is quiet noteworthy elevated than any other album has accrued in any week in 2024 up to now, making it the one year’s 2d-most efficient tally up to now.

Furthermore, the 2d week figure for “Tortured Poets” is furthermore the superb 2d-week number for any album in nine years. The closing time an album did any greater in its sophomore session used to be in 2015, when Adele’s “25” did 1.162 million in its 2d week.

Swift now has ownership of the stop two weekly album figures in 2024. The 439,000 for “Poets” in week 2 is correct before the 407,000 that Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” racked up in its first week closing month.

Of that 439,000 in album-equal units, 107,000 units had been chubby-album gross sales, whereas streaming accounted for 330,000 of that figure, in conserving with a formula that interprets streams into chart units. The album picked up 428.54 million on-quiz of streams in week 2, in conserving with Billboard.

“Tortured Poets” didn’t be pleased any rivals for its build, incomes about six events as many units because the closest runner-up. Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” came in 2d residence with 69,000 units, adopted by Future and Metro Boomin (61,000), Beyoncé (52,000) and Noah Kahan (41,000).

Partynextdoor had the appropriate contemporary entry within the stop 10 of the Billboard 200, entering at No. 10 with 34,000 units for “Partynextdoor 4 (P4).”