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Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' just broke a record as her biggest album on the Billboard 200. Here's how her others rank.

<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Taylor Swift performs during The Eras Tour in Dublin.Charles McQuillan/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Taylor Swift's newest album "The Tortured Poets Department" has logged 12 straight weeks at No. 1.</li><li>"Poets" is now her biggest album on the Billboard 200 chart, outlasting "1989" and "Fearless."</li></ul><p>Taylor Swift gave us fair warning in her newest album: "<a target="_blank" class href="https://youtu.be/i8_w_m6HLJ0?si=hhg5KykfHFWpXXcA">Try and come for my job</a>." Three months later, she's still in her prime.</p><p>Released on April 19, "<a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-album-review-tracklist-breakdown-2024-4">The Tortured Poets Department</a>" has logged <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-career-best-12th-week-number-one-billboard-200-tortured-poets-department-1235730713/">12 consecutive weeks at No. 1</a> on the Billboard 200, a career-best for Swift.</p><p>The uninterrupted reign of "Poets" is rare for a <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-too-many-songs-tortured-poets-department-opinion-2024-4">streaming-era release</a>. It's the first album ever by a female artist to spend its first 12 weeks atop the chart, surpassing a record previously held by Whitney Houston's 1987 blockbuster "Whitney." The all-time record for a consecutive streak among women is held by Carole King's masterpiece "Tapestry," which spent <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.billboard.com/lists/albums-no-1-billboard-200-most-consecutive-weeks/">15 weeks at No. 1</a> in 1971.</p><p><a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/artists-most-number-one-songs-hot-100-2020-9">Swift is no stranger to chart success</a>. Keep reading for a ranking of her 15 studio albums (including both originals and rerecords) based on their <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/taylor-swift/chart-history/tlp/">Billboard 200</a> performances.</p>
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