According to data from Luminate’s midyear report, Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is the biggest album of the year so far and it is not even close.

Pure sales alone accounted for 2.474 million copies through the first half of 2024. The album in second place was Billie Eilish‘s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ with 306,000 physical copies. Including Eilish, the other top 10 albums only sold 1.924 million pure units combined. Beyonce is barely passing the 250k pure album sales. Ariana Grande is and Nicki Minaj is about to surpassed her.