On the eve of the 11th month of the year, Taylor Swift has achieved her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with “Midnights.” The set enters with the chart with 1.578 million album eq…
Swift is now tied with Barbra Streisand as the female artist with the most No. 1 albums in the chart’s history. She’s the sixth act with over 10 No. 1 albums on the chart, joining the Beatles , Jay-Z , and Drake, Bruce Springsteen, and Streisand . She also becomes the only artist to have five albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week in U.S. Nielsen history.
Three hours after its release, “Midnights” was followed up with a deluxe version, aka the “3am Edition,” which included seven bonus tracks. There were five different LP editions — four of them with different cover artwork and different LP color variants, plus a separate Target edition duplicating one of those covers but with a different color.
Lil Baby’s “It’s Only Me” sits at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 110,000 equivalent album units earned after scoring the top spot a week prior. Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” slips out of the top two slots for the first time since its release earlier this May, landing at No. 3 with 67,000 units . The Arctic Monkeys’ “The Car” earns the band their fourth top 10-charting album, entering at No. 6 in its debut week with 37,500 units . YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Ma’ I Got a Family” also makes its debut on the chart this week, bowing at No. 7 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. The 19-song set is the Louisana-bred rapper’s 12th top 10-charting effort and his fifth top 10 in 2022.