Taylor Swift’s Expanded Album Returns to Billboard 200 No. 1

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a 13th nonconsecutive week after the expanded edition, The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, added four new songs. The album earned 173,000 equivalent units in the United States, a 619% increase from the previous week, with streaming—especially of the new tracks—driving most of the total. The Encore also debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, giving Swift her 14th UK chart-topper; two of its new songs placed in the top five of the UK singles chart. In the U.S., Tinashe’s Popstar debuted at No. 6 and Kenny Chesney’s Silver Sands Marina at No. 7.