{"id":7232,"date":"2025-12-07T21:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/taylor-swift-showgirl-tops-billboard-200-8-weeks-1236130118\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:36:46","slug":"taylor-swift-showgirl-tops-billboard-200-8-weeks-1236130118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/taylor-swift-showgirl-tops-billboard-200-8-weeks-1236130118\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Life of a Showgirl\u2019 Returns to No. 1 for Eighth Week Atop Billboard\u00a0200"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart (dated Dec. 13), up from No. 3 a week ago, collecting its eighth nonconsecutive week atop the list. The set earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week ending Dec. 4 (up 12%), according to Luminate, aided by Black Friday promotions at retail and newly available signed CDs sold through the artist\u2019s webstore.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAlso in the top 10, holiday music returns to the region, as albums by Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/a>, Bing Crosby<\/a> and Vince Guaraldi Trio<\/a> jingle up the list.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 13, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Dec. 9. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u2019s 99,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 53,000 (down 18%, equaling 69.38 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks \u2014 it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 46,000 (up 121%; it climbs 4-2 Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 76%).<\/p>\n

\n\tThree former No. 1s are Nos. 2-4 on the latest Billboard 200, as Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> rises 4-2 (71,000 equivalent album units, down 6%), the KPop Demon Hunters <\/em>soundtrack steps 5-3 (66,000, down 1%) and Stray Kids<\/a>\u2019 DO IT<\/em> falls 1-4 in its second week (64,000, down 78%).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wicked: For Good<\/em> soundtrack drops 2-5 in its second frame, earning 63,000 (down 49%).<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Bubl\u00e9\u2019s former No. 1 Christmas<\/em> returns to the top 10, climbing 12-6 with 58,000 equivalent album units earned (up 70%), largely driven by streaming activity (48,000 SEA units, equaling 64.86 million on-demand official streams of the project\u2019s songs; it zooms 11-3 on the Top Streaming Albums chart). Christmas<\/em> was released in 2011, spent five weeks at No. 1 in December 2011 and early January 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every following holiday season. The set boasts Holiday 100<\/a>-charting favorites like \u201cHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,\u201d \u201cHolly Jolly Christmas,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Be Home for Christmas\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200\u2019s latest tracking week captured the first seven days following the Thanksgiving Day holiday (Nov. 28 through Dec. 4). There are three more tracking weeks during the Christmas season, as the Christmas holiday (Dec. 25) falls on a Thursday this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBing Crosby\u2019s Ultimate Christmas<\/em> rises 16-7 on the Billboard 200 with 52,000 equivalent album units earned (up 78%). Nearly all of that sum is powered by streaming activity, as SEA units comprise 48,000 (equaling 63.55 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks). The album also rockets 14-4 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Ultimate Christmas<\/em> best-of set was released in 2024 and peaked at No. 3 on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated chart. It marked the late Crosby\u2019s highest-charting album in 66 years, dating to when his former No. 1 Merry Christmas<\/em> ranked at No. 2 on the Jan. 5, 1959 chart. (Merry Christmas<\/em> previously spent a week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.)<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimate Christmas<\/em> contains such classic Holiday 100<\/a>-charting tunes from Crosby as \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d (featuring The Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,\u201d \u201cDo You Hear What I Hear?\u201d and \u201cMele Kalikimaka\u201d (with The Andrews Sisters).<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean<\/a>\u2019s The Art of Loving<\/em> falls 7-8 on the latest Billboard 200 (48,000 equivalent album units earned, down 1%).<\/p>\n

\n\tVince Guaraldi Trio\u2019s soundtrack to the A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> animated TV special is back in the top 10 for the first time in nearly three years, as it surges 18-9 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (up 68%). It was last in the top 10 on the Jan. 7, 2023-dated chart, when it ranked at No. 10. Of the 46,000 units the album earned for the week, SEA units comprise 26,000 (up 72%, equaling 33.81 million on-demand official streams of its songs; it rises 43-13 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 20,000 (up 64% and largely owed to vinyl purchases; it jumps 10-4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (up 42%). The album earns its biggest sales week in three years, since it sold 23,000 copies on the Dec. 31, 2022 chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> soundtrack was released in 1965, the same year that the Emmy Award-winning special premiered on CBS, but it did not reach any Billboard<\/em> ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). On the Billboard 200 chart, the set visited the top 10 for the first time on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated list, later peaking at No. 6 on the Jan. 1, 2022-dated chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> TV special aired annually on CBS during the holiday season from 1965 through 2000. ABC picked up the rights to the show from 2001 to 2019. In 2020, Apple TV acquired the rights to the special, along with other classic animated Peanuts programs. Each year, Apple TV also makes A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> available free for a limited time; this year, the free window will take place Dec. 13-14.<\/p>\n

\n\tClosing out the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is Tate McRae<\/a>\u2019s former leader, So Close To What<\/em>, which falls 6-10 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 31%).<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0<\/em>Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0<\/em>Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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