Taylor Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl secures its ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated December 20, earning 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. for the week ending December 11. Of Swift’s 15 No. 1 albums, only The Tortured Poets Department (17 weeks), 1989, and Fearless (each 11 weeks) have spent more time atop the chart. This week’s sales included 50,000 streaming equivalent albums (down 5% with 65.83 million streams), and 39,000 pure album sales (down 16%), with Showgirl climbing back to No. 1 on Top Album Sales while falling two spots to No. 4 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.
Half of the Top 10 on this week’s Billboard 200 are holiday albums, led by Michael Bublé’s Christmas, which climbs up two spots to reach No. 4, followed by Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas ascending two slots to No. 5, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song jumps up five places to No. 6, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack move up a spot to No. 8, and A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector vaults up four slots to No. 9. The non-holiday albums rounding out the Top 10 are Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem holding at No. 2, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack remaining at No. 3, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving moves up a spot to No. 7, while Stray Kids’ former chart-topper DO IT falls six slots to No. 10 in its third week. (Billboard)
