Taylor Swift becomes first musician to claim entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100



Singer has surpassed Drake, who had held the preceding grounds with 9 of the pinnacle songs for per week remaining yr

Taylor Swift astatine the 2022 Toronto planetary movie pageant. She has travel to beryllium the superior creator successful records to accidental the Top 10 slots of the Billboard Hot a 100 chart. Photograph: Valérie Macon/AFP/Getty ImagesTaylor Swift connected the 2022 Toronto planetary movie competition. She has crook retired to beryllium the superior creator successful past to asseverate the Top 10 slots of the Billboard Hot a 100 chart. Photograph: Valérie Macon/AFP/Getty ImagesAssociated PressMon 31 Oct 2022 17.46 EDTLast modified connected Mon 31 Oct 2022 21.17 EDT

Taylor Swift scored a 10 retired of 10 to extremity up the archetypal creator successful past to assertion the Top 10 slots connected the Billboard Hot 1 100 illustration successful the US, with tracks from her state-of-the-art album, Midnights.

Billboard said connected Monday that Swift has surpassed Drake, who had held the preceding grounds with 9 of the Top 10 songs for a week successful September 2021.

“10 retired of 10 of the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM IN SHAMBLES,” the 32-12 months-antique popular celebrated idiosyncratic tweeted.

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The caller medium got present retired connected 21 October with some a thirteen-tune trendy motorboat and a deluxe mentation with 7 bonus tracks. It has had 1 of the largest medium launches successful astir 7 years. Billboard besides reported that Swift present ties with Barbra Streisand for the miss creator with the maximum No 1 albums.

The No 1 spot connected the Billboard illustration belongs to Anti-Hero, whose lyrics “It’s me/hi/I’m the trouble/It’s me” person speedy turn to beryllium a TikTok fashion. The antithetic Top 10 songs encompass Lavender Haze, Maroon, Snow astatine the Beach, Midnight Rain, Bejeweled and Question … ?

Swift has acceptable a fig of of latest statistic with Midnights: it had the biggest archetypal week of income of immoderate medium this 12 months, astir doubling the numbers of the erstwhile identify-holder, Harry’s House, the 3rd solo medium by utilizing Harry Styles. Midnights besides had the champion first-week streams of the year: seventy two.5m, erstwhile much beating Styles’ figures of 53.9m.

On the time of its release, Midnights broke worldwide Spotify statistics for the maximum streams of a unmarried medium successful 1 day.

Swift has besides overtaken Madonna to acceptable a marque caller all-time UK illustration study for the quickest succession of 9 UK No 1 albums of immoderate woman creator – contempt the information that Madonna inactive has the study for the astir UK No 1 albums of immoderate solo pistillate artist, with 12 standard. Swift is present 2d successful that list, pushing Kylie Minogue into 0.33 place.

But careless of her accomplishment successful the UK she received’t beryllium capable to reflector her domination of the Billboard Hot 1 hundred: aft 16 of the 17 songs connected Ed Sheeran’s 2017 album, ÷, charted wrong the Top 20, policies were added that mean that lone the 3 maximum fashionable songs of immoderate medium astatine the infinitesimal are eligible for the United Kingdom’s singles chart.