Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl hits double-digit weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set collects a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the list (dated Dec. 27). It earned 104,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Dec. 18 (up 18%), according to Luminate. The album got a boost thanks to sales generated from new color vinyl variants of the album, exclusively sold via Swift’s webstore, that began shipping out to customers.
As The Life of a Showgirl notches a 10th week at No. 1, Swift becomes the first woman, and third act overall, to have at least four albums with at least 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since the chart began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March of 1956. She previously nabbed 10-week-or-more No. 1s with her previous release, The Tortured Poets Department (17 weeks in 2024), along with 1989 (11 weeks in 2014-15) and Fearless (11 weeks in 2008-09).
In total, only nine acts, including Swift, have at least two albums that have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1. Those acts are: The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Swift (four such albums each); Whitney Houston, The Kingston Trio (three each); Adele, Henry Mancini, The Monkees and Morgan Wallen (two each).
Meanwhile, 21 Savage’s WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? debuts at No. 3 on the latest Billboard 200, marking the rapper’s seventh top 10-charted project. Plus, a record-tying six holiday albums decorate the top 10.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 27, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 23. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.
Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 104,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 55,000 (up 43% — it’s steady at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 48,000 (down 4%, equaling 63.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it moves 4-6 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 3%).
In addition to adding a fourth career 10-week Billboard 200 leader, Swift scores back-to-back full-length albums with at least 10 weeks at No. 1 for the first time, with The Life of a Showgirl following The Tortured Poets Department.
Only six acts, including Swift, have notched consecutive No. 1s that ruled for at least 10 weeks. Swift joins Morgan Wallen (who has done so with his three most recent full-length albums: I’m the Problem, 12 weeks, 2025, One Thing at a Time, 19 weeks, 2023-24 and Dangerous: The Double Album, 10 weeks, 2021); Adele (25, 10 weeks, 2015-16, and 21, 24 weeks, 2011-12); Whitney Houston (Whitney, 11 weeks, 1987, and her self-titled album, 14 weeks, 1986); The Monkees (More of the Monkees, 18 weeks, 1967 and their self-titled album, 13 weeks, 1966-67); and The Kingston Trio (String Along, 10 weeks and Sold Out, 12 weeks, both in 1960).
Back on the latest Billboard 200, Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 2 with just more than 73,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%).
21 Savage’s WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 48,000 (equaling 65.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 25,000 (it debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
The album was announced on Dec. 8, shortly before its drop on Dec. 12. It was issued as a widely available 13-song digital download album, alongside a 14-track download and streaming edition (adding the track “Mr. Recoup,” with Drake) and a 14-track CD edition (which adds “Trust Nobody” with INK). The CD was available exclusively via 21 Savage’s webstore, in five variants: a signed edition and four versions each with alternate cover art.
The new set marks 21 Savage’s seventh top 10-charted title on the Billboard 200, all of which have reached the top five.
The former No. 1 KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack goes 3-4 with 71,000 equivalent album units earned (up 6%). It spends its 26th week (all consecutive from its debut) in the top 10. The last soundtrack to tally at least 26 weeks , or half a year, in the top 10 was Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, which also spent its first 26 weeks on the chart in the top 10 (including one week at No. 1), in 2018-19.
Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas shifts 4-5 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned. It leads the parade of a record-tying six holiday albums in the top 10 — a feat that has happened multiple times, most recently on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated list. The first time it occurred was on the Jan. 5, 1959, chart, when holiday sets by Mitch Miller, Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Mantovani and Perry Como dotted the region.
The rest of the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are all holiday titles. Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas dips 5-6 (66,000 equivalent album units, up 1%); Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song is pushed down 6-7 (55,000, up 9%); Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack is steady at No. 8 (50,000, up 3%); the multi-artist A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector is stationary at No. 9 (48,000, up 12%); and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas jingles back to the top 10, rising 11-10 (46,000, up 11%).
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