Taylor Swift’s album The Tortured Poets Department has been at number one for 10 consecutive weeks now. It’s become one of only five albums to have ever debuted at the top and stayed there for 10 weeks straight, the other four being Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks), Whitney Houston’s Whitney (11 weeks), another of Wallen’s, One Thing at a Time (12 weeks), and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (13 weeks). At this rate, TTPD is making history with every passing week.
Swift now has three albums under her belt that have all spent 10 or more weeks at number one, with the others being 1989 and Fearless, both of which were up there for 11 weeks. Only five acts have ever released three or more albums that stayed at number one for at least 10 weeks: Elvis Presley (four albums), the Kingston Trio (three), the Beatles (four), Whitney Houston (three), and Swift. Houston joined the club with albums released from 1986 to 1993, while the other three artists all did so prior to 1970. That makes Swift the first to pull this off in around 30 years, and the only singer to do so this century.
Her closest competitors are Adele and Morgan Wallen, each with two albums that hit the 10-week mark. Both musicians could realistically release a third album to bring them in line with that record at any time, and other artists, like Bad Bunny, Drake, and SZA, already have one such album to their name each.

Looking at the artists in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 for the week of July 6, six of them are women: Taylor Swift (number one), Gracie Abrams (two), Billie Eilish (four), Chappell Roan (six), Ariana Grande (eight), and Charli XCX (nine). This is the first time six women have been in the top 10 since September 2019—a list that again included Swift and Eilish.

After a one-week stint down at number two, Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s single “I Had Some Help” is back on top, logging their sixth week overall after their previous five-week streak—the only song to reach six weeks on top so far this year. The steady increase in airplay finally pushed the song up to number one in radio and consequently overall, marking Malone’s second number-one radio hit after “Circles,” and Wallen’s first. Though country music is in high rotation on American airwaves and boasts a loyal following, it can’t claim the same dominance across as diverse a slice of radio stations as pop and hip hop do, so it’s quite rare for a song to top both the genre-agnostic Radio Songs and specific Country Airplay charts—an honor that’s been afforded to only six songs since 1990. Of those six, “I Had Some Help” reached the top of Radio Songs the fastest in just eight weeks. The previous record was 14 weeks, and one took as long as 35.

The songs waiting at number two and three to dethrone “Some Help” also happen to be number one in sales and streaming, respectively. At number two is “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey, which has spent seven weeks at number one on the Digital Songs Sales chart, the third highest after BTS’s songs “Butter” and “Dynamite,” both of which held onto number one for 18 weeks. Number three on the Hot 100 is Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” jumping from its position at number six last week thanks to a massive 45.4 million streams that pushed it to the top of the streaming chart and bolstering its overall performance. It's likely the reason for this surge in popularity was thanks to Lamar performing the song for the first time ever—and then four more times, back to back—at his special one-off concert, The Pop Out: Ken & Friends, on June 19.
Sabrina Carpenter currently sits at numbers four and five with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” but the latter continues to claim the top of the Global 200, while the former does the same but for the Global Excl. US chart. She’s only the second artist in history to occupy the top of both charts with different tracks since Peso Pluma first achieved the feat last June.

It might be time to create a new category of performers called “emerging female artists who have performed on the Eras Tour.” That list would include Sabrina Carpenter, of course, but also Gracie Abrams. Abrams’ second album, The Secret of Us, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with weekly sales reaching 89,000 units, 50,000 of which were from album sales, ushering in her best sales streak ever and elevating her to number one on Top Album Sales. Vinyl sales made up a whopping 40,000 copies of those sold, on top of which the album logged over 47.5 million streams, or roughly 38,000 additional units.
Abrams shot to fame after putting out her debut single, “Mean It,” back in 2019. Notably, she worked with Aaron Dessner, who also produced Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore set, to release her debut album, Good Riddance, early last year. She then joined the US leg of Swift’s Eras Tour through summer, playing 29 shows and receiving a nomination for Best New Artist for the 2024 Grammys last fall.
While performing at Eras, Abrams got to work on her sophomore album. Expectations ran high for the Dessner-produced Secret of Us once the tracklist was published and Swift’s name showed up as a featured artist. That most talked-about track, titled “us.” and produced in part by Jack Antonoff as well, wasn’t even released as a single—people had to wait until the album dropped on June 21 to hear it. Abrams performed the song live for the first time on June 23 at Swift’s concert in London, with Swift on guitar and Abrams on piano. “us.” debuts this week at number 36 on the Hot 100, while Abrams herself is number two on the Artist 100. The album debuted at number one on the UK and Australian charts. Abrams is set to return to the stage when the Eras Tour heads back to North America this fall.

Over on the Global 200, the NewJeans tracks “Supernatural” and “Right Now” debut at numbers 25 and 81, while Lee Young Ji and D.O.’s single “Small girl” enters at number 38. Here’s where K-pop artists stand on the chart this week:

Meanwhile, on the Billboard 200, ATEEZ’s album GOLDEN HOUR: Part 1 is number 93, and NAYEON’s second mini album, NA, is 101.
On the Top Album Sales chart, ATEEZ’s and NAYEON’s albums sit at numbers eight and nine, respectively. TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s minisode 3: TOMORROW is number 16, SEVENTEEN’s 17 IS RIGHT HERE is number 35, and RM’s Right Place, Wrong Person is number 48.
Looking at the Artist 100 chart, ATEEZ sits at number 36, NAYEON at number 44, and TOMORROW X TOGETHER at number 65.
Finally, on the Emerging Artists chart, ILLIT re-enters at number 20, and BOYNEXTDOOR stays at number 24. The Emerging Artists chart is calculated the same way as the Artist 100 chart, but it only includes artists who have never ranked in the top 25 of either the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200.