A week ago, holiday titles dominated Billboard’s album chart, taking up half of the top 10. But now that streaming playlists are no longer over-indexed with roasted chestnuts, things are back to normal. Which means, of course, that Taylor Swift is (still) on top.
Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” her latest re-recording, remains at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album’s sixth time at the top since its release 10 weeks ago. However, in a slow week for music sales, the new “1989” maintained its position with the equivalent of a modest 64,000 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate, a smaller gross than any number one album. one in 2023. (The lowest sales figure last year was Morgan Wallen’s 16th No. 1 hit “One Thing at a Time,” back in October, when it scored 75,000.)
Three other Swift titles ranked high this week: “Midnights” is No. 5, “Lover” is No. 6, and “Folklore” is No. 10.
The rest of the Top 10 is all repeats, without a sprig of mistletoe in sight: Wallen’s “One Thing” (No. 2), Drake’s “For All the Dogs” (No. 3), “Pink Friday 2” by Nicki Minaj. (No. 4), SZA’s “SOS” (No. 7), Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” (No. 8) and Zach Bryan’s recent self-titled LP (No. 9).
