Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. (Photograph by John Sciulli/Getty Pictures for FIJI Water )
Even Billie Eilish’s new album in its debut week couldn’t dethrone Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Division from the Billboard 200.
Swift’s eleventh studio album entered its fifth week in a row as No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums charts, the primary album to take action since Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time, which led for the primary 12 weeks of 2023. Per Billboard, TTPD has earned the “largest fifth week for any album since Adele’s 25 in 2016.”
Whereas Eilish, 22, didn’t take the highest spot, she sits comfortably beneath Swift at No. 2 along with her new studio album Hit Me Onerous and Smooth, which was launched on Might 17. That is Eilish’s third album to succeed in the highest two of Billboard 200, the earlier two being Happier Than Ever in 2021 and When We Fall Asleep in 2019.
Over the weekend, Swift introduced her record-breaking Eras Tour to Portugal for 2 reveals on Friday, Might 24, and Saturday, Might 25. Following a brief break, she is going to subsequent carry out in Spain on Wednesday, Might 29, and Thursday, Might 30.
Each precocious little one prodigies turned international, Grammy-winning pop superstars, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish have had a protracted overlapping historical past. Swift and Eilish, who launched their debut albums on the ages of 16 and 17, respectively, have ceaselessly celebrated one another’s successes inside the {industry}. Swift even handed the baton to Eilish at Billboard’s 2019 […]
As for Eilish, the Billboard 200 rating comes after the singer confronted vital backlash from Swifties following an interview with Billboard in March. Within the interview, she criticized artists who not solely carry out “3-hour live shows” but in addition launch a number of variations of their albums in numerous packaging for followers to buy.
“Among the largest artists on the earth [are] making f—king 40 totally different vinyl packages which have a unique distinctive factor simply to get you to maintain shopping for extra,” Eilish advised Billboard. “It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re nonetheless at a degree the place you care that a lot about your numbers and also you care that a lot about creating wealth — and it’s all of your favourite artists doing that s–t.”
Whereas Eilish was advocating for sustainability within the music {industry}, Swift followers, nevertheless, took this as a thinly veiled dig on the 34-year-old pop star. “Okay so it could be so superior if individuals would cease placing phrases into my mouth and truly learn what I mentioned in that billboard article,” Eilish wrote in a press release by way of Instagram Tales. “I wasn’t singling anybody out, these are industry-wide systemic points.”
She added, “On the subject of variants, so many artists launch them, together with me, which ! clearly state within the article. The local weather disaster is now and it’s about all of us being a part of the issue and making an attempt to do higher sheesh.”
In a sustainability assertion on her web site, Eilish’s crew defined that the eight vinyl variants of Hit Me Onerous and Smooth use recycled supplies. “For her forthcoming album, Billie Eilish can be releasing a restrict of 8 variants of vinyl by her web site in addition to all main retailers together with Goal, Amazon, and Walmart; every on the identical day, containing the identical track-listing throughout the board and all produced with essentially the most sustainable practices accessible,” the assertion learn. “The usual black variant is constituted of 100% recycled black vinyl. The remaining 7 coloured vinyl can be constituted of ECO-MIX or BioVinyl.”
