Taylor Swift’s TTPD Beats Billie Eilish for No. 1 Billboard Spot

Even Billie Eilish’s new album in its debut week could not dethrone Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department from the Billboard 200.

While Eilish, 22, did not take the top spot, she sits comfortably below Swift at No. 2 with her new studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft, which was released on May 17. This is Eilish’s third album to reach the top two of Billboard 200, the previous two being Happier Than Ever in 2021 and When We Fall Asleep in 2019.

As for Eilish, the Billboard 200 ranking comes after the singer faced significant backlash from Swifties following an interview with Billboard in March. In the interview, she criticized artists who not only perform “3-hour concerts” but also release multiple versions of their albums in different packaging for fans to purchase.

While Eilish was advocating for sustainability in the music industry, Swift fans, however, took this as a thinly veiled dig at the 34-year-old pop star. “Okay so it would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth and actually read what I said in that billboard article,” Eilish wrote in a statement via Instagram Stories. “I wasn’t singling anyone out, these are industry-wide systemic issues.

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