Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl nets a 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 11, 2026) with 81,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 1 (down 42%), according to Luminate.
The Life of a Showgirl marks Swift’s sole second-longest run at No. 1. It surpasses the 11-week reigns of 1989 (2014-15) and Fearless (2008-09). Only The Tortured Poets Department, with 17 weeks at No. 1 in 2024, has more weeks atop the list among Swift’s 15 No. 1 albums, the most leaders among soloists.
The last album with at least 12 weeks at No. 1, among all releases, was Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, with 12 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2025. (The last album with more than 12 weeks at No. 1 was SZA’s SOS, which logged its 13th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the May 3, 2025-dated list.)
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA debuts at No. 6, marking the third top 10 for the former and the first for the latter.
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 Jan. 10, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 6. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 81,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 47,000 (up 10%, equaling 61.58 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it rises 16-2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 33,000 (down 66%; it notches a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 25%).
The top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 gets shaken up by the exodus of most holiday titles, as the new chart reflects the tracking week of Dec. 26 through Jan. 1. In turn, many non-holiday titles surge up the list, even with declines in overall activity.
Wallen’s I’m the Problem climbs 6-2 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%), while fellow former No. 1 the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack sails 10-3 with 51,000 (down 18%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving reaches a new high as it vaults 14-4 (surpassing its No. 5 peak in November) with 50,000 (down less than 1%). Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Man’s Best Friend rallies 19-5 with 40,000 (but down 5%).
Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, scoring the former his third top 10 and the latter, his first. The set launches with 33,000 equivalent album units earned, of which SEA units comprise essentially all (equaling 45.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums). The album was preceded by the single “Intro,” which debuted at its No. 8 high on the Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Dec. 6).
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are four former No. 1s: SZA’s SOS shoots 24-7 (32,000 equivalent album units, down 11%), Tate McRae’s So Close To What jumps 27-8 (nearly 32,000, up 2%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drives 36-9 (27,000, up 1%) and Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet zooms 30-10 (nearly 27,000, down 8%).
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