Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Tops Hot 100 for 2nd Week, Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ Launches at No. 2 - Billboard

Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” spends a 2nd week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. A week earlier, it debuted astatine the summit, arsenic Swift made history arsenic the archetypal creator to assertion the survey’s full apical 10 successful a azygous frame.

Meanwhile, Rihanna roars onto the Hot 100 astatine No. 2 with “Lift Me Up.” The opus is her 32nd apical 10 and archetypal since 2017.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and authoritative video), vigor airplay and income data. All charts (dated Nov. 12, 2022) volition update connected Billboard.com time (Nov. 8). For each illustration news, you tin travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some Twitter and Instagram.

In the Oct. 28-Nov. 3 tracking week, “Anti-Hero,” released connected Republic Records, tallied 35.6 cardinal streams (down 40%), 37.6 cardinal vigor airplay assemblage impressions (up 17%) and 17,000 sold (up 28%, bully for apical Sales Gainer honors, aided by the availability of its instrumental mentation successful Swift’s webstore Nov. 3), according to Luminate.

The azygous posts a 2nd week atop the Streaming Songs chart; jumps 9-4 connected Digital Song Sales; and dips 13-14 connected Radio Songs. (As previously reported, this week’s Billboard airplay charts are the archetypal utilizing Mediabase-monitored data; this week’s Radio Songs illustration incorporates information from erstwhile monitoring work BDS for Oct. 28-30 and from Mediabase for Oct. 31-Nov. 3, with Mediabase information to powerfulness the survey going forward).

Swift scores 4 songs successful the latest Hot 100’s apical 10, with “Anti-Hero” followed by “Lavender Haze” (2-6), “Midnight Rain” (5-7) and “Bejeweled” (6-9). Each opus (and each 10 of her apical 10s a week earlier) is from her caller LP Midnights, which logs a second week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Rihanna blasts backmost to the Hot 100 arsenic “Lift Me Up” debuts astatine No. 2 with 48.1 cardinal successful vigor audience, 26.2 cardinal streams and 23,000 sold successful its archetypal week, pursuing its Oct. 28 release.

The ballad begins arsenic Rihanna’s 32nd Hot 100 apical 10, the fifth-most successful the chart’s history.

Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s:
59, Drake
40, Taylor Swift
38, Madonna
34, The Beatles
32, Rihanna
30, Michael Jackson
29, Elton John
28, Mariah Carey
28, Stevie Wonder
27, Janet Jackson
26, Justin Bieber
25, Lil Wayne
25, Elvis Presley (with the commencement of Presley’s vocation having predated the Hot 100’s inception)

Rihanna earns her archetypal Hot 100 apical 10 since 2017, erstwhile DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts,” connected which she and Bryson Tiller are featured, peaked astatine No. 2 for 7 weeks that July-September. She archetypal reached the apical 10 with her debut deed “Pon De Replay,” which roseate to No. 2 successful July 2005. She boasts 14 No. 1s, the third-most aft The Beatles’ 20 and Mariah Carey’s 19.

With “Lift Me Up,” Rihanna ties her champion vocation Hot 100 entrance, and makes her champion accomplishment arsenic a pb artist, aft Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie,” connected which she’s featured, debuted astatine No. 2 successful July 2010 (and went connected to reign for 7 weeks).

“Lift Me Up” soars successful astatine No. 2 connected Streaming Songs, No. 3 connected Digital Song Sales and No. 6 connected Radio Songs. Notably, the opus makes conscionable the 4th apical 10 Radio Songs commencement since the illustration became an all-genre ranking successful December 1998, aft Adele’s “Easy connected Me” (No. 4, 2021); Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” (No. 6, 2011); and Janet Jackson’s “All for You” (No. 9, 2001).

Rihanna adds her 36th apical 10 connected Digital Song Sales, her record-extending 30th connected Radio Songs (ahead of runner up Drake with 24) and her 15th connected Streaming Songs. (Helping the song’s income start, its archetypal and instrumental versions were made disposable successful Rihanna’s webstore Nov. 2, portion archetypal and instrumental options with 2 alternate covers arrived Nov. 3.)

The azygous besides opens astatine No. 1 connected the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts, which usage the aforesaid methodology arsenic the Hot 100. Rihanna adds her eighth person connected the erstwhile database (dating to her first, “Take a Bow,” successful 2008) and her sixth connected the second (which began successful 2012). She had past topped some tallies with “Wild Thoughts” successful 2017.

“Lift Me Up” is from the soundtrack, released Nov. 4, to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, owed successful theaters this Friday (Nov. 11).

Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” rebounds 11-3 connected the Hot 100, 2 weeks aft it ascended to No. 1, with 40.8 cardinal successful airplay assemblage (up 53%, arsenic it wins the Hot 100’s apical Airplay Gainer award), 25.1 cardinal streams (up 3%) and 12,000 sold (up 3%).

Steve Lacy’s chap erstwhile Hot 100 person “Bad Habits” jumps 12-4. The way concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for an 11th week each.

Harry Styles’ “As It Was” pushes 16-5 connected the Hot 100, aft 15 weeks astatine No. 1 – the fourth-longest reign successful the chart’s history. It claims its 30th week successful the apical 10, becoming conscionable the 3rd opus to scope the milestone, and rules Radio Songs for a 12th framework (60.2 million, up 2%).

Elsewhere successful the Hot 100’s apical 10, Post Malone’s “I Like You (A Happier Song),” featuring Doja Cat, climbs 17-8, aft reaching No. 3, and Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” charges 22-10, aft it opened atop the Aug. 27 chart, arsenic it tops the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs tally for an 11th week.

Again, for each illustration news, you tin travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some Twitter and Instagram and each charts (dated Nov. 12), including the Hot 100 successful its entirety, volition refresh connected Billboard.com time (Nov. 8).

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