By: Michael Xia

Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” has notched its 11th straight week at No. 1, holding off all challengers once again.

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions, she is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, with estimated global sales of 200 million records.Taylor Swift has been one of the most influential artists in contemporary music since she was named the best new artist by the Country Music Association in 2007. In 2023 she was named Spotify’s most-played artist, and in 2024 she became the only person ever to win the Grammy Award for album of the year four times.

“Tortured Poets” now ties Swift’s career total for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

“Tortured Poets” has so far been consecutive and uninterrupted. It started at No. 1 — way back in April — with record-breaking numbers, and has never left that position, beating out releases from Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, the Atlanta rapper Gunna and the K-pop group Ateez.

According to Billboard, the last LP by a woman to spend at least 11 weeks in a row at No. 1 was Whitney Houston’s soundtrack to “The Bodyguard,”“Tortured Poets” had the equivalent of 114,000 sales in the United States, nearly flat from the week before. That includes 102 million streams and 35,000 sales as a complete package, according to the tracking service Luminate.Throughout its run, the weekly sales of “Tortured Poets” have benefited from strategic drops of new “versions” of the album, offered with bonus tracks and for limited times.

So look out for Taylor Swift!