Taylor Swift set more records than we can count throughout 2023, and she ended the year by breaking another one. She returned atop the Billboard 200 chart with her album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), breaking Elvis Presley’s record for most weeks at No. 1 among soloists.
With 98,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending on December 28, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for its fifth non-consecutive week. Album sales comprise 61,000, SEA units comprise 36,000 (48.5 million official streams of the set’s songs), while TEA units make up for 1,000 equivalent album units.
This brings Swift’s total of weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 to 68, helping her surpass Elvis Presley for the most weeks at No. 1 by a soloist. She’s still not close to breaking the all-time record, which is held by The Beatles with 132 weeks at No. 1 across 19 albums.
Swift reached this number across all 13 of her chart-topping releases, starting with Fearless, which spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 following its release in 2008. Folklore came close, with eight weeks at No. 1, followed by Red with seven and Speak Now and Midnights with six each.
