{"id":117697,"date":"2024-05-13T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/13\/taylor-swift-scores-third-week-at-1-dua-lipa-notches-radical-2-debut\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:00:32","slug":"taylor-swift-scores-third-week-at-1-dua-lipa-notches-radical-2-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/13\/taylor-swift-scores-third-week-at-1-dua-lipa-notches-radical-2-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift scores third week at #1; Dua Lipa notches &#8216;Radical&#8217; #2 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-13\/M_TaylorSwiftTorturedPoetsAnthology_041924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Beth Garrabrant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Taylor Swift&#8217;<\/strong>s tortured poetry continues to fascinate fans. Her new album <em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-number-one-third-week-billboard-200-chart-1235681057\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spends a third week<\/a> at #1 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> album chart. It&#8217;s her first album to spend its first three weeks on top since 2020&#8217;s <em>folklore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Dua Lipa<\/strong>&#8216;s new album,<em> Radical Optimism,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C64Vy0CsGGo\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debuts at #2<\/a> on the chart &#8212; her highest-charting release ever. It sold 83,000 units, marking her best sales week ever. Her 2020 album, <em>Future Nostalgia,<\/em> peaked at #3.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.K., her home country, <em>Radical Optimism<\/em> debuted at #1.<\/p>\n<p>Dua went wall-to-wall promoting the album, appearing on the covers of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> and <em>ELLE,<\/em> hosting and performing on <em>Saturday Night Live,<\/em> performing at the <em>TIME<\/em>100 Gala after being named to the magazine&#8217;s &#8220;most influential people of 2024&#8221; list, doing a surprise concert in New York&#8217;s Time Square and opening both the BRIT Awards and the Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Garrabrant Taylor Swift&#8217;s tortured poetry continues to fascinate fans. Her new album The Tortured Poets Department spends a third week at #1 on the Billboard album chart. It&#8217;s her first album to spend its first three weeks on top since 2020&#8217;s folklore. Meanwhile, Dua Lipa&#8216;s new album, Radical Optimism,\u00a0debuts<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/13\/taylor-swift-scores-third-week-at-1-dua-lipa-notches-radical-2-debut\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}