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How Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift Tag Teamed for the Best Week on the Charts in Nearly a Decade · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Billy Eilish's new LP, hit Me Hard and Soft didn't
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Speaker 2: quite manage to knock Taylor Swift to Torture Post Department
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Speaker 2: out of the number one spot on Billboard's Album's two hundred,
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Speaker 2: But if you have to settle for second place, Billy
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Speaker 2: certainly did it in the best way possible. With the
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Speaker 2: two women collectively having a banner week, it marks the
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Speaker 2: first time in more than eight years that two different
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Speaker 2: projects have each moved three hundred thousand units or more
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Speaker 2: in the same week. Billy was responsible for three hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty nine thousand, our career best, while Taylor was
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Speaker 2: just a step ahead with three hundred and seventy eight thousand.
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Speaker 2: The last time it happened, Beyonte's Lemonade arrived to six
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty three thousand units, while Prince was number
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Speaker 2: two with three hundred ninety one thousand. Both The Torture
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Speaker 2: Post Department and Hit Me Hard and Softer out Now
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