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From Taylor Swift to Benson Boone, Why 2024’s Midyear Charts Are the Most Unusual In a Decade
From Taylor Swift to Benson Boone, 2024's unusual midyear music report is analyzed, including Warner Records and Republic Records' top-three sweeps.
This week, Luminate released its annual midyear report on the U.S. business, providing a relatively convenient bookend to the first 10 years of what can reasonably be referred to as the official streaming era. So with the caveat that it’s still just the midway mark, and release dates and other factors weigh more heavily in smaller sample sizes, here are five stats that demonstrate that the first half of 2024 has been the most unusual year of the past decade. Swift’s Tortured Poets Department easily outstripped every other album at the midyear mark, having spent 12 of the 26 weeks of the year so far atop the Billboard 200.
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