The Tortured Poet’s Department’s streak continues. Taylor Swift’s latest album, which has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, remains at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That’s 12 weeks in a row, tying the record set by the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.
His latest victim after Billie Eilish and Charli XCX is called Zach Bryan. The new icon of alternative country has sold 137,000 copies of ‘The Great American Bar Scene’ this week, but they are only good enough to reach number 2, since Taylor Swift holds the number 1 spot with 163,000 these days. It doesn’t seem to be something that keeps Bryan up at night either, since he had the idea of releasing the album on Thursday instead of Friday, entering at number 17 on the Billboard 200 last week.
As for Taylor Swift, she doesn’t sell 163,000 units in the US every week. These days, her CD sales have doubled because she has re-stocked 7 of the CD editions on her website, including a signed one. And she released them just when her number 1 against Zach Bryan was in danger.
Now Swift has to topple records held by Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” (19 weeks total) and Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” (14 weeks), Billboard reports. For now, Taylor Swift has extended her record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 81 across all her albums.
On another note, ‘The Eras Tour’ continues. Taylor Swift is in the news for having swallowed a mosquito during one of her concerts in Milan. You can see how she takes it with humor in the videos shared on social media.
girlie swallowed a bug #MilanTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/INsjCTGMeX
— Bobby | Milan Eras 🫶 (@swiftieboston) July 13, 2024
