Taylor Swift dominates best-selling albums of 2024 in US so far; 3 K-pop acts also…see more

Taylor Swift dominates best-selling albums of 2024 in US so far; 3 K-pop acts also in the mix. See top 10

TXT, Ateez and TWICE scored their ranks in the top 10 selling albums of the year in the US (so far).

Taylor Swift was the clear winner of the first half of 2024 as far as music charts are concerned. Not only was her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, the most popular record in the US, but the top-selling album also broke records on the traditional album sales front and digital downloads at the midyear point.

In addition to being perched at the top, The Eras Tour concert-maker occupied several spots on the top 10 best-selling albums of the year in the US at the midyear point. Alongside her latest musical release, her previous fan-favourite albums – 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Lover, Folklore and Midnights firmly held on to five out of ten ranks. Nevertheless, Poets’ aura was unbeatable, charting as the only album in the top 10 selling chart with sales recorded in millions.

According to data tracking firm Luminate’s (formerly MRC Data, Nielsen Music and SoundScan) midyear music report for 2024, Swift’s TTPD earned 4.66 million equivalent album units for the tracking period of December 29, 2023, through June 27, 2024. Having spent 12 weeks leading the weekly Billboard 200 chart, the Republic Records production became the first album by a woman to spend its opening 12 weeks at the top.

Equivalent album units “comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sales, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official and audio streams generated by songs from an album,” as reported by Billboard.

With 2.47 million traditional album sales, Swift’s Poets also sat atop the top-selling album of the year (thus far) chart as a combined result of 1.07 million CDs, 988,000 vinyl sales and 395,000 digital downloads in the first six months of 2024.

On the popularity board, Taylor Swift was at the top with her TTPD. Morgan Wallen’s 2023 release One Thing at a Time, Noah Kahan’s October 2022 release Stick, Beyonce’s March 2024 release Cowboy Carter and SZA’s December 2022 release SOS trailed behind Swift, rounding out the top 5 popular albums of the year so far.

As for the best-selling records of the year at midpoint also included Swift’s contemporaries, Billie Eilish and Beyonce’s album releases. In contrast with the popular albums chart, the best-selling list also made room for K-pop releases.

While three of Taylor’s albums and Billie Eilish and Beyonce’s albums dominated the top five ranks, the second half of the list saw three South Korean music acts take the lead with their combined physical and digital album sales.