Most million-selling weeks on the US albums chart

Taylor Swift (USA) has released seven studio albums that have each logged a million-selling week on the Billboard 200: Speak Now (1.047 million on 13 November 2010), Red (1.208 million on 10 November 2012), 1989 (1.287 million on 15 November 2014), reputation (1.216 million on 2 December 2017), Midnights (1.140 million on 5 November 2022), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.359 million on 11 November 2023) and The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD; 1.914 million on 4 May 2024).

Swift’s one-week tallies – all debut weeks – are for the albums’ pure sales (physical, including CD and vinyl, and digital), minus “equivalent album units”. Overall, The Tortured Poets Department raced to No.1 on the Billboard 200 on 4 May 2024 with 2.61 million equivalent album units – the second-largest week since Billboard switched to equivalent album units in December 2014. This figure is made up of 1.914 million traditional album sales, 683,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs; equating to 891.34 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 31 songs) and 14,000 track equivalent albums (TEAs).