Taylor Swift [Wildest Dreams]
Measured at 53 chart weeks and just over a full year in calendar terms, the streak is finally over. Taylor Swift’s “1989” has departed the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.
The album, which generated 30,000 consumption units (album sales + track sales/10 + track streams/1500) during the October 30-November 5 tracking week, slips four places to #11 on this week’s chart (dated 11/21).
Of note: Swift’s blockbuster album only slightly trails Drake & Future’s #9 “What A Time To Be Alive” and Def Leppard’s #10 “Def Leppard.” The weekly unit totals for those albums, in fact, round to the same 30,000.
Taylor Swift’s “1989” arrived on October 27, 2014. It has since gone 5x platinum in the United States and had never before this week missed the Top 10 on the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.
— Boosted by a career-making night at the CMA Awards — an annual event at which Swift was once a regular — Chris Stapleton’s “Traveller” claims the top spot on this week’s Billboard 200.