Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reaches 104 weeks — two years — on the Billboard 200. It’s her fourteenth album to hit that mark. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – DECEMBER 06: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE). Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at BC Place on December 06, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
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Taylor Swift can often be called the queen of the Billboard 200, the chart company’s list of the 200 most popular albums and EPs in the United States. The singer-songwriter usually makes space for herself inside the highest tier on the roster, but even when she does not, she typically fills more slots than any other act at the moment.
Swift does not appear at No. 1, and her latest set, The Life of a Showgirl, doesn’t occupy a spot inside the top 10 any longer. Many of her top-performing titles do land on the tally, and one of her more recent blockbusters reaches a notable milestone – one which more than a dozen of her albums have previously hit.
The Tortured Poets Department Celebrates Two Years
As of this period, Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has spent 104 weeks, exactly two years, on the Billboard 200. This frame, the Grammy-nominated effort holds inside the top 40, even as it descends from No. 30 to No. 37.
Taylor Swift’s Albums With Two Years on the Billboard 200
For most musical acts, seeing an album live on the Billboard 200 for 100 weeks, two years, or longer would be a career highlight. For Swift, it is just another frame.
The Tortured Poets Department is the superstar’s fourteenth project to make it to that milestone. She could be the artist with the most two-year charters on the tally, and if she doesn’t hold that title, she is certainly one of the names with the greatest number of albums that have crossed that landmark.
Here are all of Taylor Swift’s albums that have spent at least two years on the Billboard 200.
- 1989 – 562 weeks
- Reputation – 395 weeks
- Lover – 347 weeks
- Folklore – 299 weeks
- Taylor Swift – 285 weeks
- Fearless – 261 weeks
- Evermore – 248 weeks
- Red (Taylor’s Version) – 216 weeks
- Speak Now – 194 weeks
- Red – 185 weeks
- Midnights – 182 weeks
- Fearless (Taylor’s Version) – 175 weeks
- 1989 (Taylor’s Version) – 129 weeks
- The Tortured Poets Department – 104 weeks
The Tortured Poets Department Slips on the Streaming List
At the moment, The Tortured Poets Department appears on two Billboard rankings, and it slips slightly on both of them as it reaches a special milestone. The full-length backtracks to No. 36 on the Top Streaming Albums chart, where it celebrates 100 weeks as one of the 50 most played collections on streaming sites like Spotify, Apple Music, and others.
Several of the megastar’s releases have held on for at least a year, titles including Lover, Midnights, and Folklore, but The Tortured Poets Department is easily her longest-charting success and her only title that has managed a triple-digit week count.
The Tortured Poets Department Debuted at No. 1
The Tortured Poets Department debuted atop the Billboard 200 in May 2024. As it arrived, it gave Swift her fourteenth leader on the competitive ranking, and at the time, its immediate popularity helped her tie with Jay-Z for one of the greatest collections of winners of all time. Swift is now up to 15 champions, as her most recent project, The Life of a Showgirl, launched at No. 1 a little more than six months ago.
The Tortured Poets Department would go on to spend a total of 17 turns at the summit. It continues to hold as the singer’s project with the most weeks at No. 1 and one of only a handful, also including The Life of a Showgirl, 1989, and Fearless, to accomplish a run in the top spot that includes two digits.
Taylor Swift Places Eight Albums on the Billboard 200
This week, Swift sees eight albums take up space on the Billboard 200. Each and every one of those releases falls from where they sat last time around, and her longest project yet is her second-highest-rising studio effort, trailing only The Life of a Showgirl. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) barely manages to hang on, as it descends from No. 183 to No. 200, closing out her run of charting studio efforts.
Here is a look at where all of Taylor Swift’s albums place on this week’s Billboard 200.
- No. 15 – The Life Of A Showgirl
- No. 37 – The Tortured Poets Department
- No. 89 – Lover
- No. 98 – Folklore
- No. 124 – Midnights
- No. 134 – 1989
- No. 145 – Reputation
- No. 200 – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)