Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is US’ biggest album of 2024 so far
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is the biggest album of the year so far in the US, while Benson Boone’s ‘Beautiful Things’ has been the most-streamed song.The album, which NME gave three stars, was only released on April 19, but earned 4.66 million equivalent album units in the first half of this year. It also became the first album by a woman to spend its first 12 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.Equivalent album units comprise not only traditional album sales, but also track equivalent albums and streaming, with each unit equalling either one album sale, ten individual tracks sold from an album, 3,750 ad-supported on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official and audio streams generated by songs from an album.However, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has also been the top-selling album by traditional album sales, with 2.47million sold.