Taylor Swift has officially logged 100 career weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Her album‘The Life of a Showgirl’returned to the top spot for a 14th nonconsecutive week, moving 93,000 equivalent album units, and that week pushed her past a milestone no solo artist has ever reached. Elvis Presley is second on the all-time list with 67 weeks. Swift’s 15 No. 1 albums also tie her with Drake for the most among soloists.
The rest of the top five is a reissue takeover. Drake’s‘HABIBTI’rocketed from 116 to No. 2 after a reissue added four songs. The Beatles’‘Rubber Soul’re-entered at No. 4 on the strength of an expansive deluxe edition, and Mac Miller’s‘The Divine Feminine’climbed from 159 all the way to No. 10 for its 10th anniversary. That means Swift, Drake and The Beatles, the three acts with the most No. 1 albums in chart history, all landed in the top five in the same week for the first time.
It’s a rare convergence of three different eras of pop and rock sharing one chart snapshot, and it raises an interesting question about how much reissues are shaping the Billboard 200 these days. So we want to know: does a reissue with bonus tracks count as a real chart comeback to you?
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