Two Albums Surpass 300,000 Weekly Units for First Time in Eight Years, Thanks to Taylor Swift & Billie Eilish

TTPD has earned the “largest fifth week for any album since Adele’s 25 in 2016.”

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.

Over the weekend, Swift brought her record-breaking Eras Tour to Portugal for two shows on Friday, May 24, and Saturday, May 25. Following a short break, she will nextWhile 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.”