Taylor Swift’s latest album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ is the highest-selling album this year so far. Swift’s album sold 2.474 million copies in the first half of 2024. Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ is the second-highest-selling, with 306,000 copies sold. The rest of the top 10 most-sold albums this year, four of which were also Swift’s, sold roughly 1.924 million units combined. While ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has sold a total of 4.66 million album equivalent units with sales and streams combined. Some have criticized Swift for releasing several versions of ‘TTPD’, claiming she is exploiting her devoted fanbase. Billie Eilish criticized the practice as “wasteful,” highlighting its environmental impact due to the increased production of CDs and vinyl.