Friday, June 5, 2026

Taylor Swift’s Mega Album “Tortured Poets” Takes 6th Week at Number 1, Beating Billie Eilish, twenty one pilots

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The numbers are in. Taylor Swift has taken the number 1 spot on the album chart for the SIXTH week.

“The Tortured Poets Department” wracked up 177,000 in sales mixing CDs, LPs, and streaming. The album beat Billie Eilish’s new album for a second week in a row. “Hit Me Hard and Soft” came in at around 149,000.

Taylor didn’t win everything. twentyone pilots’ album, “Clancy,” sold 139,000 copies. And get this: 110,000 of those were hard sales — CDs, downloads, etc. So the Pilots outsold Swift, whose album count was 42,444.

On the chart and on the rise: a singer named Chappell Roan, who my niece tells me is the big deal right now. Her album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess,” sold 27,000 copies this week and has been on the chart for a couple of weeks. It’s unclear who her label or publicist are. I emailed someone and they didn’t respond.

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