Most albums with million-selling weeks on the US Billboard 200

Taylor Swift (USA) has released five albums that have logged million-selling weeks on the US Billboard 200: Speak Now (1.047 million on 13 November 2010); Red (1.208 million on 10 November 2012); 1989 (1.287 million on 15 November 2014); reputation (1.216 million on 2 December 2017); and Midnights (1.140 million on 5 November 2022). Adele has had three million-selling frames on the Billboard 200, but all with the same album (25).

Midnights, Swift’s 11th US No.1, was the 22nd album to sell at least 1 million copies in a week in America since Luminate (formerly Nielsen SoundScan) began tracking sales in 1991. Backstreet Boys, Eminem and *NSYNC have all had two albums that reached seven-figure sales in a week. Swift’s one-week tallies – all debut weeks – are for the albums’ pure sales (physical, including CD and vinyl, and digital), minus “album equivalent units”. Overall, Midnights launched with 1.578 million album equivalent units on 5 November 2022, made up of 1.140 million pure sales, 419,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs) and 19,000 track equivalent albums (TEAs).