Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Takes Back No. 1 on the Chart

The first Billboard chart of the new year belongs to Taylor Swift.

Swift’s “Reputation” (Big Machine) returns to No. 1 for a fourth time on the latest chart, with the equivalent of 107,000 sales, according to Nielsen. Of that total, 79,000 copies were sold as full albums, and the rest were made up of streams and downloads of individual tracks.

The latest chart counts sales made in the seven days through Dec. 28, which means that Swift probably benefited from last-minute holiday shopping, although the total for “Reputation” was down slightly from the week before, when it logged 133,000.

Also this week, Huncho Jack, the new duo of rappers Travis Scott and Quavo (of Migos), started at No. 3 with “Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho” (Quality Control), with cover art by 81-year-old Ralph Steadman (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”). The album had the equivalent of 90,000 sales, the vast majority from streams.

Ed Sheeran’s “÷” is No. 2 in its 43rd week on the chart. Eminem’s new “Revival,” last week’s top seller, falls to No. 4 in its second week out. And the soundtrack to “The Greatest Showman,” the P.T. Barnum biopic starring Hugh Jackman, is No. 5.

In the new year, Billboard will adjust its chart formulas to give greater weight to streams from paid subscription services, and less to free streams. That may penalize some genres, like rap and Latin pop, that have been most popular on streaming, and have come to dominate the charts because of it.

In an announcement in October, Billboard said the changes were being made to “accurately portray in an unbiased manner” the way music is listened to, as well as the economic differences of various online formats.