Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl collects a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 20), with 89,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Dec. 11 (down 10%). Of Swift’s 15 No. 1 albums, only three have spent more weeks at No. 1: The Tortured Poets Department (17), and 1989 and Fearless (each with 11).
Plus, half of the top 10 on the Billboard 200 are holiday albums, led by Michael Bublé’s former leader Christmas, which sleighs up the list two spots to No. 4.
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. 20, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 16. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.
Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 89,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 50,000 (down 5%, equaling 65.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; falls 2-4 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 39,000 (down 16% — it rebounds 2-1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 4%).
Former chart-toppers populate the rest of the top four on the Billboard 200, as Morgan Wallen I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 2 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (up 4%), the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is steady at No. 3 (67,000, up 1%) and Bublé’s Christmas climbs 6-4 (64,000, up 11%).
Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas ascends 7-5 with 59,000 equivalent album units (up 15%), while Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song returns to the top 10 with an 11-6 jump (50,000, up 17%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving bumps 8-7 (49,000, up 2%) and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack skates 9-8 (48,000, up 6%). A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector is back in the top 10 with a 13-9 increase (43,000, up 15%), while Stray Kids’ former No. 1 DO IT dips 4-10 in its third week (42,000, down 35%).
There are two more tracking weeks during the Christmas season, as the Christmas holiday (Dec. 25) falls on a Thursday this year, the first time Christmas is on a Thursday since 2014. The Billboard 200’s tracking week, like all other Billboard charts, runs from Friday through Thursday each week.
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