Taylor Swift’s latest album Midnights has taken the top spot on the Billboard 200 for a fourth nonconsecutive week, Billboard reports.
Midnights amassed 177,000 equivalent album units, of which 118,000 consisted of SEA units, equaling 155.8 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks. The remaining sum is broken down into 57,000 in traditional album sales and 2,000 TEA units.
Swift’s continued success on the Billboard 200 comes in the shadow of the Ticketmaster fiasco, which sparked an investigation from Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti.
“There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and I’m trying to figure out how this situation can be improved moving forward,” Swift wrote in response to Ticketmaster’s handling of the Eras Tour presale. “I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could.”
Elsewhere on the chart, Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss held steady at No. 2 after moving 119,000 album equivalent units, while Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti finished in a distant third with 56,000 units.
Meanwhile, Michael Jackson’s sixth studio album Thriller catapulted from No. 115 to No. 7 after being reissued in honor of its 40th anniversary. It moved 37,000 equivalent album units, representing a 283 percent increase in sales, compared to the previous week. Following its initial release, Thriller spent a staggering 37 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 from 1983 to 1984, the most for an album by a singular artist.
