To take heed to “Repute” or to not take heed to “Repute”? For years, that has been the query for Taylor Swift followers, who’ve largely thought-about that album one in every of their prime favorites but felt conflicted about consuming it, because it remained one of many data that she had not but re-recorded after her contentious break up along with her unique label and the succession of firms that bought her catalog. However that ethical dilemma has handed, with Swift shopping for full rights to her first six albums and in impact issuing a full cross for everybody to guiltlessly get pleasure from them once more.

Swifties responded to that go-ahead by streaming “Repute” en masse within the week that adopted within the announcement. The brand new Billboard 200 chart sees the album returning to the higher reaches of the chart, touchdown at No. 5 with 42,000 album-equivalent items… a 73-spot leap.

In line with Luminate’s information monitoring, as reported by Billboard, album gross sales for “Repute” have been up 1,184% for the monitoring week. Most of these have been digital gross sales, since there weren’t many bodily LPs or CDs nonetheless sitting in shops when Swift made her shock announcement. The larger technique of consumption was by way of streaming, which was up 125%, to 34.75 million on-demand streams.

If that streaming improve doesn’t appear that dramatic at “solely” 125%, it’s price noting that streams for “Repute” had already been excessive main into this monitoring week. Much less ethically conflicted followers had already been streaming the album prematurely of what turned out to be a false expectation that Swift was about to announce a “Repute (Taylor’s Model)” re-recording over Memorial Day weekend, as an alternative of the a lot greater revelation she provided them the next Friday.

If Swift had had quite a lot of vinyl copies of “Repute” within the market, the sky might need been the restrict, given her followers’ confirmed penchant for LPs. Presumably, a vinyl reissue will come alongside sooner or later within the distant future.

When “Repute” does have new bodily editions, they are going to be with out the Huge Machine brand that seems on all of the copies at the moment out. Digital providers, in the meantime, are nonetheless within the course of of fixing the official document firm credit for the unique six albums she bought from Shamrock Holdings final month. The newly revised credit do or will say merely “Copyright Taylor Swift,” although Spotify, Apple and different providers have been gradual in utterly eliminating both “Apollo A-1LLC,” which was the unwieldy “label” identify assigned to her outdated recordings by Shamrock, or “Huge Machine Label Group.”

A lot of Swift’s different albums have already been lodged within the Billboard 200 and are anticipated to see fairly a lift when the complete chart is printed Monday; Sunday’s reveal by Luminate and Billboard solely covers the highest 10.

Whereas Swift’s large leap represents the most important headline, there have been two debuting albums that pulled into the chart’s prime 5 simply forward of her. The Ok-pop group Seventeen bowed at No. 2 with 48,500 equal album items for “Seventeen fifth Album Comfortable Burstday.” That’s a slight uptick from the group’s earlier full-length album, “Face the Solar,” which debuted with 44,000 items in 2022.

Miley Cyrus‘ “One thing Stunning” debuted with disappointing numbers, coming in at No. 4, with 44,000 items. That was nicely under half the numbers registered for her earlier album, “Countless Summer time Trip,” which included the smash single “Flowers”; it bowed with 119,000 items in 2023.

Cyrus will subsequent be seen on the massive display screen with a movie model of the album. The music-video compendium, which simply premiered on the Tribeca Movie Pageant, will come out in Imax theaters for one evening solely within the U.S. on June 12.

On the very prime of the Billboard 200, issues have been unchanged, with Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Downside” making it a 3rd week in a row within the No. 1 spot. The nation famous person’s newest smash effort collected one other 246,000 album-equivalent items, down simply 14% from week two. In line with Luminate, that’s the most important third week for an album in additional than a yr — since Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” in reality (which had 282,000 items in week 3).

Touchdown between Seventeen and Cyrus at No. 3 was SZA’s “SOS,” nonetheless driving excessive on the energy of a deluxe version and a large hit collaboration with Kendrick Lamar. In Nos. 6-10 are Wallen’s earlier album, “One Factor at a Time,” adopted by efforts by Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, the workforce of Partynextdoor and Drake, and Unhealthy Bunny.