Eminem pushes Taylor Swift out of the album charts

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Also: Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” falls to number 4 and Clairo’s album lands at its highest chart position of all time.

Taylor Swift has finally passed the baton: Eminem is now at number one on the Billboard 200, dethroning “The Tortured Poets Department” for the first time since its release in April.

The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), the rapper’s twelfth album, tops the genre charts in the US with 281,000 album sales. It also has 220 million streams and 114,000 sales, according to data from Luminate.

Eminem first announced “Death” during the NFL Draft in April and later published an obituary in the Detroit Free Press saying goodbye to Slim Shady, his alter ego who he played as a character in his songs and videos throughout his career. The LP is Eminem’s first record since “Music to Be Murdered By,” a January 2020 release.

“Death” is Eminem’s eleventh album to reach No. 1, a number that puts him at No. 5 on the charts and puts him on par with Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (Kanye West).

Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” meanwhile, slips to No. 4 after spending a record-breaking 12 weeks at No. 1. It held the post with unrivaled availability in variants – several different vinyl, CD or cassette versions of an already released album or EP – released over multiple weeks. This approach is a trending topic for the music industry, as according to Luminate Data’s 2024 Mid-Year Report, the top 10 U.S. physical albums of 2024 came in an average of seven different vinyl variants.

Enhypen scores the best-selling album of the week with “Romance: Untold,” achieving 2,117,000 sales across 17 different CD variants. “Romance” opens at number 2, becoming the K-pop group’s most successful album of all time and fourth top 10 album. The nine-song album opens with 124,000 album units and nearly 10 million streams.

Also new in the top 10 this week is Clairo, who can boast her most successful album of all time and her first top 10 album: “Charm” enters at number 8 with 47,000 album units sold. It starts with an incredible 32,000 units sold on vinyl and in deluxe box sets.

Megan Moroney’s second album also lands her first top 10 album on the Billboard 200. “Am I Okay?” landed at number 9 with 43,000 units in its first week.

Zach Bryan’s “The Great American Bar Scene” is at No. 3 and is the second most streamed album of the week behind Eminem. Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” is at No. 5, Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” is at No. 6 and Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” is at No. 7. Rounding out the top 10 is Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season.”