{"id":588146,"date":"2026-05-17T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588146\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:17:11","slug":"taylor-swifts-fan-favorite-album-reaches-a-longevity-chart-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588146\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s Fan-Favorite Album Reaches A Longevity Chart Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778977031_502_0x0.jpg\" alt=\"Night Three Of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - London, UK\" data-height=\"3402\" data-width=\"2329\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s Lover becomes her third album to spend 350 weeks on the Billboard 200, joining 1989 and Reputation in the feat. LONDON, ENGLAND &#8211; JUNE 23: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE)) Taylor Swift performs on stage during &#8220;Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour&#8221; at Wembley Stadium on June 23, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole\/TAS24\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management )<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/p>\n<p>Every single one of <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2026\/05\/02\/taylor-swifts-surprise-album-arrives-at-a-chart-milestone\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2026\/05\/02\/taylor-swifts-surprise-album-arrives-at-a-chart-milestone\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Taylor Swift&#039;s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Swift&#8217;s<\/a> albums has been a success on the Billboard charts. Each of her 12 original studio LPs, as well as several re-recordings, have performed well on the Billboard 200, which ranks the most-consumed albums and EPs in the United States each week, and many of them have held on for years. <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the charts and promotional campaigns, none experienced a stranger run than Lover. Originally released in 2019, the pure pop effort narrowly missed out on scoring a No. 1 on the <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" aria-label=\"Billboard Hot 100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> on two occasions, as both &#8220;Me!&#8221; with Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco and <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY\" aria-label=\"&quot;You Need to Calm Down&quot;\">&#8220;You Need to Calm Down&#8221;<\/a> peaked at No. 2, stuck behind &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus. <\/p>\n<p>Swift had to cease promotion of Lover when the COVID-19 pandemic took over the globe, and that shift allowed her to write and record both Folklore and Evermore. Years after she stopped pushing Lover, the song &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221; began to go viral after it was included in her setlist during The Eras Tour, and Swift and company chose it as a late-in-life single. That track became the album&#8217;s first leader on the Billboard Hot 100, and its continued popularity helps Lover find space on the <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Billboard+200&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Billboard+200&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" aria-label=\"Billboard 200\">Billboard 200<\/a> nearly every week. <\/p>\n<p>As the full-length holds on, it becomes one of only a few albums by the singer-songwriter to reach an impressive and notable milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s Lover Reaches 350 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>Lover has now spent 350 weeks on the Billboard 200 as of this period. That is a milestone that few artists will ever reach, but it is one that Swift has seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the 21 projects Swift has debuted on the Billboard 200 have racked up 350 stays. 1989, her longest-running success, is up to 565 weeks on the 200-space tally. Reputation will reach 400 frames in less than a month. Both of those studio efforts are present this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift Charts Eight Albums This Week<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO &#8211; NOVEMBER 14: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE). Taylor Swift performs onstage during &#8220;Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour&#8221; at Rogers Centre on November 14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/TAS24\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/p>\n<p>Swift is often the artist that claims the most spaces on the Billboard 200, and this week, eight of her albums appear on the tally. Lover is the third-highest-ranking of the bunch, as it climbs from No. 90 to No. 85. Lover sits behind only Swift&#8217;s two more recent releases, The Life of a Showgirl and The Tortured Poets Department. <\/p>\n<p>Of the eight projects by the country and alternative and rock and pop star that make a home on the Billboard 200, five do not appear on any other Billboard chart, and Lover is counted among them. Swift&#8217;s sum improves this time around as 1989 (Taylor&#8217;s Version) reenters the roster at No. 173. <\/p>\n<p>Here are all of Swift&#8217;s albums that are present on this week&#8217;s Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>No. 17 &#8211; The Life of a ShowgirlNo. 42 &#8211; The Tortured Poets DepartmentNo. 85 &#8211; LoverNo. 95 &#8211; FolkloreNo. 123 &#8211; MidnightsNo. 126 &#8211; 1989No. 135 &#8211; ReputationNo. 173 &#8211; 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)Taylor Swift\u2019s Lover Led the Billboard 200 Only Once<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo\" aria-label=\"Lover\">Lover<\/a> is counted among Swift&#8217;s 15 No. 1s on the Billboard 200. That&#8217;s the second-most of all time, behind only the Beatles, and the most among soloists, although that order will change very soon. Jay-Z and Drake land one winner behind Swift, and Drake recently released not one, not two, but three albums, and one of them is bound to debut at the summit in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat surprisingly, only two of Swift&#8217;s champions on the chart have managed just one stay on the throne. Lover is joined by Red (Taylor&#8217;s Version), and the former is her longest-charting success story that only ruled one time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"embed-base color-body color-body-border link-embed embed-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2026\/05\/02\/taylor-swifts-surprise-album-arrives-at-a-chart-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Taylor Swift\u2019s Surprise Album Arrives At A Chart Milestone\" data-ga-track=\"forbesEmbedly:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2026\/05\/02\/taylor-swifts-surprise-album-arrives-at-a-chart-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForbesTaylor Swift\u2019s Surprise Album Arrives At A Chart MilestoneBy Hugh McIntyre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s Lover becomes her third album to spend 350 weeks on the Billboard 200, joining 1989 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,201092,96376,201091,201093,201085,201087,201086,201090,201088,201089,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift-billboard","tag-taylor-swift-billboard-200","tag-taylor-swift-charts","tag-taylor-swift-forbes","tag-taylor-swift-lover","tag-taylor-swift-lover-billboard-200","tag-taylor-swift-lover-charts","tag-taylor-swift-lover-number-one","tag-taylor-swift-lover-sales","tag-taylor-swift-lover-vinyl","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}