Taylor Swift’s Showgirl Rules the Billboard 200 for a 15th Week as Olivia Rodrigo Climbs to No. 2

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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl is back on top for a 15th week, and the rest of the top five are all former No. 1s. The set earned 87,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 15, down 7%, on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 24, Billboard reports, citing Luminate.

Streams made up 47,000 of those units (48.37 million on-demand streams, down 28%) and album sales 37,000, up 38% after a stock replenishment of some physical editions in Swift’s official store. That’s her ninth week atop Top Album Sales. The album returned to No. 1 two weeks ago after the Sept. 25 Encore edition added four songs, including “Patient Zero,” and last week’s 14th turn gave Swift a 100th career week at No. 1 across 15 chart-toppers. Only The Beatles, with 132 weeks, have more.

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Behind her, Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love rises 3-2 with 65,000 units, followed by Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (5-3, 55,000), Ella Langley’s Dandelion (6-4, 53,000) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide (7-5, 45,000). Rodrigo’s “Expectations” remix with Chappell Roan arrived a day after this tracking week closed.

Drake’s HABIBTI falls 2-6 with 43,000 units, down 39%, a week after its reissue sent it from No. 116 to No. 2. His ICEMAN rises 11-10 with nearly 30,000. Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is up one spot to No. 7 (35,000) and Kahan’s Stick Season moves 9-8 (33,000). The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine, both in last week’s top 10, have dropped out.

The only new arrival is Greta Van Fleet’s Palace for the People at No. 9, the band’s fourth top 10 album. It opened with 30,000 units, 26,000 of them sales, helped by five vinyl variants (one signed), two CD variants (one signed), a cassette and a download.

The Encore’s four songs are what put the album back in front, and Swift said so when she announced them, in a note Rolling Stone Australia quoted:

I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.

Taylor Swift, in her note announcing the Encore, Rolling Stone Australia

Billboard posts the full chart, dated Oct. 24, on Tuesday (Oct. 20). The tracking week closed two days before Swift played “The Fate of Ophelia” live for the first time at the Academy Museum Gala.