After releasing the “Anthology” edition of his album “The Tortured Poets Department” on vinyl (4 LPs, 35 songs, $59.99) and CD, the album will regain first place tomorrow for a sixteenth week at the top of the Billboard 200, the list of best sellers in the United States.
With 16 weeks at No. 1, “The Tortured Poets Department” is now the album with the third most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women (since the chart began regular, weekly publication in March 1956), surpassing Carole King’s “Tapestry,” which logged 15 weeks at No. 1 in 1971.
Only Adele’s “21” album (24 weeks in 2011-12) and Whitney Houston’s “The Bodyguard” soundtrack (20 weeks in 1992-93) have more weeks at No. 1 among all-female albums in history.
