Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Chappell Roan‘s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” continues its run as one of the pop phenomena of the year, reaching a new high of No.
2 on the Billboard 200, in results released Sunday. The album chart continues to be dominated, however, by Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which hit the No.
1 spot for the 15th non-consecutive week. Swift’s album stayed on top with 85,000 equivalent album units, a 40% decline from the previous week, in Luminate data first reported by Billboard.
Roan’s very hot freshman album rose a spot to second place, with 72,000 units, a 13% increase, and her best weekly tally to date.
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