Taylor Swift claims your entire prime 10 on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 : NPR


Taylor Swift, photographed throughout the 2022 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 9, 2022.

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Taylor Swift, photographed throughout the 2022 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 9, 2022.

Valerie Macon/AFP by way of Getty Photographs

Taylor Swift has taken over your entire Prime 10 of the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, changing into the first-ever artist to so do. All 10 songs atop this week’s Sizzling 100 come from Swift’s album Midnights, which was launched on Oct. 21. With the information, Swift surpasses Drake’s feat final 12 months, when he captured 9 of the Prime 10 spots on the Sizzling 100 chart.

“Anti-Hero” took the No. 1 spot, changing “Unholy” by Sam Smith and Kim Petras — each of whom made their very own mark on historical past with their No. 1 spot final week.

The album continues to interrupt a string of data, together with being the most-streamed album in in the future on each Spotify and Apple Music and logging the third-biggest streaming week ever for an album. Swift’s album Purple (Taylor’s Model) beforehand held the mantle for Swift’s largest streaming week in 2021.

Midnights additionally earned Swift her eleventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, recording the largest week for any album in 7 years (since Adele’s 25). Swift has tied Barbara Streisand for probably the most No. 1 albums launched by a feminine artist, based on Billboard.

Swift centered Midnights on the basic trope of the midnight confession, utilizing a conversational singing type to inform tales for after-hours impressed by self-loathing, fantasizing about revenge and questioning what may need been.

Together with releasing new music, Swift has been re-recording her basic albums after her former label, Massive Machine, offered her catalog for a reported $300 million to private-equity group Ithaca Holdings. She has launched re-recordings of her albums Fearless and Purple.