Taylor Swift threatens Beatles record with Tortured Poets Department album

American singer Taylor Swift’s new album called ‘Tortured Poets Department’ makes a historic debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200 sales chart, breaking music records as one of the artists with the most albums on the chart, second only to The Beatles.

The set launches with the biggest streaming week ever for an album and marks her 14th No. 1, tying her for the most among solo artists.

Those astounding numbers mark the biggest album streaming week in history, the second biggest week for an album (by total album equivalent units earned) since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014, the third biggest sales week (by traditional album sales) in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales electronically in 1991) and the biggest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US according to multi-metric consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).