MAKE WAY FOR THE QUEEN.
Taylor Swift scores one of the most historic weeks in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as she becomes the first artist to claim the survey’s entire top 10 in a single frame. She surpasses Drake, who logged nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 for a week in September 2021.
All 10 songs are from Swift’s newly released album ‘Midnights,’ which has sold 1 million copies in the U.S. in just three days. “Anti-Heroes” held the number one spot as of Monday night, making it the 11-time Grammy winner’s ninth number one hit.
Taylor Swift has been doing queen things effortlessly with this new album—she has set a new number of new records with Midnights, for it had the biggest first week of sales of any album this year, almost doubling the numbers of the previous title-holder, Harry’s House, the third solo album by Harry Styles.
FUN FACT: On the day of its release, Midnights broke global Spotify records for the most streams of a single album in one day.
The top songs on the list include Anti-Hero, Lavender Haze, Maroon, Snow on the Beach, Midnight Rain, Bejeweled, Question, You’re on your own Kid, Karma, and Vigilante Shit.
She’s been rolling out videos, actually making an edit to “Anti-Hero” amid that fatphobic backlash. Her song “Bejeweled” came out last week and the Cinderella-with-a-twist themed video was star-studded with appearance by Laura Dern, the HAIM sisters, and Dita Von Teese.
Taylor Swift has always been dubbed as the queen of productivity. She has been a music-making machine, including re-recording her old albums, starting with Fearless and Red in 2021. The new versions allow her to own her masters — or the original recordings of the songs.
