Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl scores its 10th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making her the first woman and third act ever to have four albums each spend at least 10 weeks atop the chart. This milestone follows her previous long-running No. 1 albums – The Tortured Poets Department, 1989, and Fearless – and marks Swift’s first time with back-to-back albums each spending 10 weeks at No. 1, a feat shared by only six acts in Billboard history. In the latest tracking week, The Life of a Showgirl earned 104,000 equivalent album units, including 55,000 in sales and 63 million streams, with numbers boosted by the sales of new color vinyl variants of the album exclusively available from Swift’s webstore.
Other notable moves in this week’s Billboard 200 Top 10 include 21 Savage’s WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? debuting at No. 3, marking the rapper’s seventh Top 10-charting project of his career, all of which have cracked the Top 5. Meanwhile, a record-tying six holiday albums are featured in the Top 10, led by Michael Bublé’s Christmas, which drops one spot to No. 5, followed by Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas falling one slot to No. 6, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song slides down one place to No. 7, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack remains at No. 8, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector stays at No. 9, and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas returns to the Top 10, rising one spot to reach No. 10. The chart’s top tier is rounded out by Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, which remains at No. 2, and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which drops one spot to No. 4. (Billboard)
