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Taylor Swift Fends Off Zach Bryan to Spend 12th Week Atop Album Chart, Breaking an Old Whitney Houston Record and Tying Recent One Set by Morgan Wallen


Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' held off Zach Bryan for a 12th straight week at No. 1, breaking an old record set by Whitney Houston.

1 on the Billboard 200 with “ The Tortured Poets Department ” continues unabated, as the album fended off a strong challenge from a new Zach Bryan release to spend its 12th consecutive week atop that chart, breaking or tying a couple of records in the process. As more contemporary benchmarks go: “Tortured Poets” is now tied with Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” for the collection that has spent the most consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 in this century. On Thursday, for a period of just hours, Swift released three digital variants, each including one separate live-from-Stockholm acoustic track as a bonus on top of the standard-edition tracklist, for $4.99 each.

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