Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour in Dublin.
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Taylor Swift's newest album "The Tortured Poets Department" has returned to No. 1 for a 15th week.
"Poets" is her biggest album ever on the Billboard 200 chart, outlasting "1989" and "Fearless."
Swift's self-titled debut album performed the worst on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 5.
Taylor Swift gave us fair warning in her newest album: "Try and come for my job." Over three months later, she's still in her self-described "glittering prime."
The uninterrupted reign of "Poets" is rare for a streaming-era release. It's the first album ever by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks atop the chart, surpassing a record previously held by Whitney Houston's 1987 blockbuster "Whitney." The all-time record for a consecutive streak among women is held by Carole King's masterpiece "Tapestry," which spent 15 weeks at No. 1 in 1971.
After briefly dropping to a lower position, "Poets" returned to No. 1 for three additional weeks, extending her personal record.
"I've spoken a lot about why I'm remaking my first six albums, but the way I've chosen to do this will hopefully help illuminate where I'm coming from," Swift explained. "Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work."
"For example, only I know which songs I wrote that almost made the 'Fearless' album," she continued. "Songs I absolutely adored, but were held back for different reasons."
Those skeptics were forced to eat their words when "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" began to outpace the original on streaming platforms. According to Billboard, "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" earned more equivalent album sales in its first week of release than "Fearless" earned over the entire next year.
7 (tie). "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)""Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" was released in 2023.
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Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for two weeks
The rerecorded version of Swift's third album featured six songs from the vault, including two duets: "Electric Touch" with Fall Out Boy and "Castles Crumbling" with Hayley Williams, one of Swift's oldest friends.
6 (tie). "Reputation""Reputation" was released in 2017.
She returned with a new snake-infested aesthetic and "Look What You Made Me Do," a cheeky lead single that poked fun at her own persona.
Swift also declined to participate in interviews or media appearances while promoting her sixth album. Instead, she relied on a simple tagline: "There will be no further explanation. There will just be reputation."
6 (tie). "Evermore""Evermore" was released in 2020.
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Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for four weeks
"Evermore" was surprise-released just five months after Swift's previous album, "Folklore." The two were billed as "sister albums," created under near-identical conditions with the same team of collaborators.
"To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs," Swift explained on social media.
5 (tie). "Speak Now""Speak Now" was released in 2010.
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Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for six weeks
Swift's third album had a lot to live up to, following the blockbuster success of "Fearless."
In response to skeptics — who questioned whether the teen phenom was relying too heavily on her collaborators — Swift decided to write "Speak Now" entirely by herself. She is the only songwriter credited on the standard tracklist.
5 (tie). "Midnights""Midnights" was released in 2022.
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Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for six weeks
Swift's 10th studio album sold over 1 million copies in its debut week, the first to cross that seven-figure threshold since Swift's own "Reputation." (She has now achieved the feat on seven different occasions.)
"Midnights" also won album of the year at the Grammys, joining "Fearless," "1989," and "Folklore" in the prestigious group of victors. Swift is the only artist in history to win album of the year four times.
5 (tie). "1989 (Taylor's Version)""1989 (Taylor's Version)" was released in 2023.
"Red" is Swift's fourth studio album. It featured a mishmash of Max Martin-produced pop bangers ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "I Knew You Were Trouble") and country-rock breakup anthems ("State of Grace," "Holy Ground").
Swift's fifth album marked her official pivot from country to pop music, a move that Swift said she had to "really fight — and I mean aggressively fight — to have happen."
In addition to its double-digit streak atop the Billboard 200, "1989" yielded several hit singles on the Hot 100, including "Shake It Off," "Blank Space," and "Bad Blood."
1. "The Tortured Poets Department""The Tortured Poets Department" was released in 2024.
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Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for 15 weeks
Swift's 11th studio album did not leave the No. 1 slot for 12 straight weeks after its debut in April, fending off new releases from stars like Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, and Zach Bryan.
Swift briefly yielded the top spot to Eminem and Stray Kids before "Poets" returned to No. 1 for another round. And then two more.
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