Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for a 14th nonconsecutive week on the chart dated Oct. 17, earning 93,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 8, a 46% decline, according to Luminate. The album returned to the top a week earlier, jumping 21-1, after its Sept. 25 deluxe reissue added four previously unreleased songs, including the Billboard Hot 100-topping "Patient Zero."
The milestone marks Swift's 100th career week at No. 1 across her 15 chart-topping albums, extending her record among soloists. Elvis Presley holds the second-most weeks at No. 1 among soloists with 67. Swift is tied with Drake for the most No. 1 albums among soloists, though only The Beatles have more weeks at No. 1 (132) and more No. 1 albums (19) among all artists. The Billboard 200 has published weekly since March 1956.
Of The Life of a Showgirl's 93,000 units, streaming equivalent albums (SEA) accounted for 65,000 (down 52%, equal to 66.64 million on-demand official streams), while album sales made up 27,000 (up 28%). The album falls 1-2 on Top Streaming Albums but moves 5-2 on Top Album Sales; track equivalent albums (TEA) made up the remainder, down 90%.
Drake's HABIBTI returns to its peak, soaring 116-2 with 71,000 units (up 506%) after an Oct. 2 reissue dubbed HABIBTI (FOMO) added four tracks: "Solar Eclipse" (with Don Toliver), "Quebec," "Cold Shoulder" (with Toliver and Yebba) and "Classic PT2." Nearly 70,000 of its units came from SEA activity, up 497%. All versions of the album are combined for charting purposes.
Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love slips to No. 3 with 66,000 units (down 2%). The Beatles' Rubber Soul re-enters at No. 4 following an expansive reissue released Oct. 2 across multiple formats, its first appearance on the chart since Jan. 16, 2016, and first time in the top 10 since April 9, 1966. The album, which spent six weeks at No. 1 in 1966 and features "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Michelle" and "In My Life," earned 58,000 units (up 1,626%), including 50,000 in sales (reentering at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and 7,000 SEA units, equal to 7.4 million streams (up 144%). It's the Beatles' best week by units and sales in seven years, since Abbey Road earned 81,000 units and 70,000 in sales on the Oct. 12, 2019, chart after a similar deluxe reissue — and their highest rank since Revolver reentered at No. 4 on the Nov. 12, 2022, chart.
With Swift, Drake and The Beatles occupying the top five simultaneously, it marks the first time the three acts — who collectively hold the most No. 1 albums of all time, with the Beatles' 19 leading Drake's and Swift's 15 apiece — have shared the top five or top 10 in the same week.
Rounding out the top 10: Morgan Wallen's The the Problem falls 4-5 (55,000 units, down 2%); Ella Langley's Dandelion dips 3-6 (54,000, down 7%); Noah Kahan's The Great Divide drops 5-7 (46,000, up 2%); Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving falls 6-8 (35,000, down 1%); and Kahan's Stick Season holds at No. 9 (33,000, up less than 1%). Mac Miller's The Divine Feminine closes out the top 10, vaulting 159-10 after its Oct. 2 tenth-anniversary reissue added three tracks. The album, which peaked at No. 2 in 2016, earned 32,000 units (up 218%), with 18,000 in sales (up 2,995%, reentering at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and 14,000 SEA units, equal to 14.68 million streams.
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