Swift’s Chart Milestone
- Forbes reports Taylor Swift’s 'The Tortured Poets Department' reached a new chart milestone this week. - The article identifies this as Swift’s eighth release to hit that specific benchmark. - The mention appeared in broader coverage of Swift’s ongoing commercial performance and catalog strength (forbes.com).
Taylor Swift’s *The Tortured Poets Department* has now spent 104 weeks on the United Kingdom’s Official Albums Chart, giving her an eighth album to reach the two-year mark. (forbes.com) The Official Charts Company lists the album on the chart dated April 17 to April 23, 2026, two years after its April 19, 2024 release. Official Charts says the set gave Swift her 12th U.K. No. 1 album when it opened in April 2024. (officialcharts.com 1) (officialcharts.com 2) Forbes reported on April 21 that *The Tortured Poets Department* is Swift’s eighth full-length release to log at least 104 weeks on the U.K. tally. The same outlet noted in March that the album had already crossed 100 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200, where it became her 14th album to hit that threshold. (forbes.com 1) (forbes.com 2) The album’s U.K. run has been unusually strong since day one. Official Charts said it posted 270,000 chart units in its opening week, the biggest opening week for any Taylor Swift album in Britain and the biggest for any album there in seven years. (officialcharts.com 1) (officialcharts.com 2) By the end of 2024, Official Charts named *The Tortured Poets Department* the U.K.’s biggest album of the year. It finished 2024 as the country’s most-streamed album, best-selling album overall, and best-selling vinyl album, with 783,800 chart units and 313,800 physical sales. (officialcharts.com) Its chart life was also helped by repeated returns to No. 1. Official Charts said the album reached 10 non-consecutive weeks atop the British albums chart, a mark it described as the first by an international solo artist this century. (officialcharts.com) The milestone lands in the middle of a larger U.K. streak for Swift’s catalog. Official Charts says she has 14 No. 1 albums in Britain and 18 albums that have reached the Top 75, with 1,834 total weeks on that chart across her catalog. (officialcharts.com) That helps explain why a two-year run for *The Tortured Poets Department* registers as another data point, not an outlier: in Britain, Swift’s newer releases keep debuting at No. 1, while older ones keep finding enough sales and streams to stay in circulation. (officialcharts.com) (officialcharts.com)
