Another day, another record forTaylor Swift.
As expected, SwiftsThe Tortured Poets Departmentdebuts at No.
1 on theBillboard 200albums chart (dated May 4).
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It is her 14th album to reach that plateau, tying Jay-Z for the most No.
The Beatles, with 19 No.
Of that sales figure, vinyl sales represent 859,000 units.
The collected 31 songs on the deluxe edition of the album generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.
It is alsothe largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era.
Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
The Tortured Poets Departmentwas released at midnight ET on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album.
