No one would have expected Taylor Swift ‘s “ The Life of a Showgirl ” to lose its grip on the album chart in week 2, and it indeed held on at the top of the Billboard 200 , with 338,000 equivalent album units in its second week out.

Last week, Swift set a record in the modern data-keeping books with 4.002 million units tallied. Even though this week’s figure marked a predictably significant drop-off from that record-buster, even the second week for “Showgirl” ranked as the fifth best week for any album this year, per Billboard and Luminate. The only albums that had a higher number than 338,000 units in a single frame this year were first-week figures for releases from Wallen, the Weeknd, Sabrina Carpenter and, of course, Swift’s own debut tally.

Breaking down that 338K figure for

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