Taylor Swift Halts Morgan Wallen’s Three-Month Streak at No. 1, as Added Tracks Put ‘Midnights’ Back on Top
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Morgan Wallen was poised to have a 13th straight week topping the Billboard 200 album chart, but someone who more regularly weaponizes the number 13 had other plans.
Taylor Swift stopped Wallen’s possibly historic run at 12 weeks, as her 2022 album “Midnights” reclaimed the top spot due to the release of deluxe editions with hotly anticipated new tracks.
All of the different variations of “Midnights” count as one for charting purposes. After never leaving the top 10 since it came out last year, and recently spending a number of weeks at No.
2, “Midnights” returned to No. 1 with 282,000 album-equivalent units for the week. It wasn’t a close call, as Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” album registered 126,000 units to slip to No.
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