Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl topped the Billboard 200 for 12 non-consecutive weeks.
The Billboard 200 ranks albums in the United States using a combination of album sales, track-equivalent units, and streaming-equivalent units. A non-consecutive total means the album reached number one for twelve separate chart weeks, with at least one interruption between some of those runs.
The result made The Life of a Showgirl Swift’s second-longest-running number-one album. The Tortured Poets Department remained ahead of it with 17 weeks at number one, so the two figures should not be confused.
This is a chart-performance statistic, not the album’s number of tracks, weeks since release, or total time in the top ten. The standard edition has twelve songs, which makes the number easy to remember but does not explain the chart result.