Taylor Swift Surpasses Whitney Houston for Most Weeks at No. 1 Among Women in Billboard 200’s History – Billboard

Plus: Contemporary albums by Alicia Keys, Keith City, Moneybagg Yo/Blac Youngsta and Lil Tecca debut in high 10.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, collecting a seventh nonconsecutive week atop the tally. In doing so, Swift surpasses Whitney Houston’s longstanding fable, amongst women folk, for the most cumulative weeks at No. 1, across all of her chart-topping albums. Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 now stands at 47, one bigger than Houston’s tally of 46. Folklore earned 87,000 identical album items in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 24 (up 97 percent), in step with Nielsen Music/MRC Recordsdata.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most smartly-favored albums of the week in the U.S. essentially based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in identical album items. Units comprise album gross sales, observe identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Each and each unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular particular person tracks equipped from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-query of authentic audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The fresh Oct. 3-dated chart (where Folklore returns to No. 1) will seemingly be posted in corpulent on Billboard‘s web space on Sept. 29. For all chart data, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Folklore’s 87,000 items earned in the monitoring week ending Sept. 24, album gross sales comprise 56,000 (up 339 percent), SEA items comprise 30,000 (down 4 percent) equaling 39.8 million on-query of streams of the album’s songs) and TEA items total 1,000 (up 38 percent).

Folklore’s fortunes perked up in the latest monitoring week, as Swift equipped extra signed CD copies of the album through her authentic webstore and by project of honest fable shops (as she’s carried out in old weeks) and also issued extra merchandise/album bundles in her webstore. She furthermore profits from the discharge of a brand fresh dwell model of the album’s single “Betty,” as performed on the Academy of Country Music Awards (held on Sept. 16). The dwell rendition became released to YouTube quickly after the awards, while it reached digital retail and moderately a few streaming providers and products on Sept. 18. For monitoring capabilities, the fresh model of “Betty” is mixed with its fashioned model.

Swift also promoted Folklore on streaming providers and products with one other release (on Sept. 21) of a thematic “chapter” of songs from the album (as she’s carried out in old weeks). Such collections of songs enhance-known placement on streaming providers and products, exhibiting as the latest release from Swift.

As infamous above, Folklore returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week on high. In doing so, Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 — across all seven of her chart-topping albums — now stands at 47, a brand fresh fable amongst female artists. She surpasses Whitney Houston’s sum of 46 weeks at No. 1. (Houston held the fable for the most weeks at No. 1 amongst women folk since 1987.)

Houston notched four No. 1 albums: her self-titled debut (14 weeks at No. 1 in 1986), her sophomore release Whitney (11 in 1987), The Bodyguard soundtrack (20 in 1992-93) and I Seek for to You (one week in 2009).

Following Swift and Houston, Adele has the third-most weeks at No. 1 amongst women folk, with 34 weeks from her two No. 1s: 21 (24 in 2011-12) and 25 (10 in 2015-16).

The all-time leaders with the most weeks at No. 1 are The Beatles, with 132 weeks at No. 1 across their fable 19 chart-topping albums. The male act (and solo artist) with the most weeks atop the list is Elvis Presley, with 67.

Here’s a roundup of every act with a minimal of 30 weeks at No. 1, for the reason that Billboard 200 chart began publishing on a conventional weekly foundation on March 24, 1956: The Beatles (132 weeks), Elvis Presley (67), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Taylor Swift (47), Whitney Houston (46), The Kingston Trio (46), Elton John (39), Fleetwood Mac (38), The Rolling Stones (38), Harry Belafonte (37), The Monkees (37), Prince (35), Adele (34), Eminem (34), Eagles (30) and Mariah Carey (30).

Folklore furthermore continues to enjoy the most weeks at No. 1 for any album since Drake’s Views ruled for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2016. Folklore also continues to enjoy the most weeks at No. 1 amongst all non-R&B/hip-hop titles, and albums by women folk, since Adele’s 25 landed 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2015-16.

At No. 2 on the fresh Billboard 200, Pop Smoke’s damaged-down chief, Shoot for the Stars Way for the Moon, is a non-mover with 75,000 identical album items earned (up 2 percent).

YoungBoy By no manner Broke All all over again’s Top falls from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week on the list, incomes 63,000 identical album items (down 50 percent).

Alicia Keys collects her eighth high 10 album, as her latest studio effort, Alicia, bows at No. 4 with 62,000 identical album items earned. Of that sum, 51,000 are from album gross sales, 10,000 from SEA items (equaling 13.6 million in on-query of streams of the blueprint’s tracks) and 1,000 from TEA items. Alicia’s album gross sales were bolstered by a concert trace/album sale redemption provide alongside with her upcoming U.S. tour, which became slated to originate up on July 28, however has since been postponed to 2021.

Alicia became in the beginning blueprint for release on March 20, however became delayed which capability that of concerns relating to to COVID-19. Alicia is Keys’ first studio blueprint since 2016’s Here debuted and peaked at No. 2.

All seven of Keys’ studio albums enjoy reached the pause four on the Billboard 200. She furthermore logged a high 10 with the No. 1 dwell blueprint Unplugged in 2005. 

Juice WRLD’s damaged-down chief Legends By no manner Die slips from No. 3 to No. 5 with 51,000 identical album items (down 4 percent). 

Rappers Moneybagg Yo and Blac Youngsta crew up for the No. 6 arrival of their collaborative album Code Crimson (a cramped bit over 40,000 identical album items earned). Of that sum, nearly 37,000 are from SEA items (equaling 51.5 million in on-query of streams of the blueprint’s tracks), 3,000 from album gross sales and 1,000 from TEA items. Code Crimson is Moneybagg Yo’s second high 10 of 2020 (following the No. 3 peak of Time Served in January) and fourth high 10 total. It’s the principle high 10 for Blac Youngsta, who had previously long gone as high as No. 42 with 223 in 2018.

Keith City nabs his eighth high 10 album on the Billboard 200, as The Flee of Now, Part 1 arrives at No. 7 with 40,000 identical album items earned. Of that sum, 27,000 are from album gross sales, 10,000 from SEA items (equaling 13.3 million in on-query of streams of the blueprint’s tracks) and a pair of,000 from TEA items.

City also marks his 20th anniversary on the Billboard 200, as his self-titled debut U.S. album arrived on the list dated Aug. 26, 2000 (at No. 188). It later peaked at No. 145. He adopted it up with Golden Avenue, a No. 11-peaking blueprint in 2002. He scored his first high 10 alongside with his subsequent release, Be Here, which reached No. 3 in 2004. (City made his total Billboard chart debut — across all charts — on Aug. 28, 1999, when his single “It’s a Esteem Thing” debuted on the Sizzling Country Songs chart.)

The fashioned Broadway solid recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, falls from No. 5 to No. 8 with 39,000 identical album items earned (down 5 percent). Lil Limited one’s damaged-down No. 1 My Turn slides from No. 6 to No. 9 with 38,000 items (down 4 percent).

The fourth and closing debut in the pause 10 is Lil Tecca’s Virgo World at No. 10 with 34,000 identical album items earned. It’s the rapper’s second chart entry and second high 10, following We Esteem You Tecca (No. 4 in 2019). Of Virgo World’s beginning sum, 30,000 are from SEA items (equaling 42.6 million in on-query of streams of the blueprint’s tracks), 4,000 from album gross sales and a negligible sum from TEA items.