Taylor Swift is no stranger to breaking records, but her latest achievement saw her surpassing the King of Rock’n’Roll himself! The pop hitmaker returned atop the Billboard 200 chart for her 68th week, breaking Elvis Presley’s for most weeks at No. 1 for a solo artist.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned atop the Billboard 200 for a fifth non-consecutive time in the tracking week ending on December 28, during an extremely slow period for new music releases. It soared to No. 1 with 98,000 equivalent album units, including 61,000 in album sales, 36,000 SEA units (48.5 million official streams of the set’s songs), and 1,000 TEA units.
This is the 68th week overall that one of Swift’s albums spent at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, helping her set another major record along the way. She surpassed Elvis Presley to become the solo artist with the most weeks at No. 1 but is still far behind The Beatles, with 132 weeks atop the Billboard 200 overall.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) was released on October 27, 2023, on the ninth anniversary of the original 1989, which produced Swift’s signature hits “Shake It Off”, “Blank Space”, and “Bad Blood”. The re-release was celebrated with two singles: “S–t!” and “Is It Over Now?”, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
