Taylor Swift narrowly achieved another win on the Billboard 200 albums chart. “The Tortured Poets Department” remained at number one during the tracking week ending June 6. It achieved 148,000 equivalent album units based on combined record sales, individual track sales and online streams (which is down just 16% from last week). This was her seventh week at number one. Across all fourteen of her chart-topping albums, she has spent more weeks at number one than any other solo artist in history. Read all about this week’s chart here on Billboard.com.
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The 148,000 units for ‘Tortured Poets’ were just enough to hold the K-pop group back ATEEZ, whose “Golden Hour: Part 1” had to settle for number two with 131,000 copies. That pushed down Billie Eilish‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ from number three, but ‘Hit Me’ still pulled in another 117,000 copies, down 19% week over week, showing impressive staying power for the 10-song collection. Morgan Wallen‘One Thing at a Time’ finished in fourth place with 71,000 units. And at number five is his compatriot Shaboozey had a breakthrough with ‘Where I’ve been is not where I’m going’, which sold 50,000 copies.
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In our weekly Billboard 200 prediction contest, most gamers correctly predicted that “Tortured Poets” would hit number one again. However, only 13 predicted the number would be between 100,000 and 149,999 album units. At number two, 15 players had correctly bet on “Golden Hour: Part 1.” Users were evenly split between “Hit Me Hard and Soft” and “One Thing at a Time” for number three; the 21 players who chose “Hit Me” received the point for that, and the 27 players who placed “One Thing” at number four scored the correct answer there. The most difficult spot to predict was number five: only one player predicted “Where I’ve Been” would appear there. In total, three players managed to answer five of the six prediction questions correctly. How did you do? Find out here.
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