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After the release of her album “Midnights,” Taylor Swift created music history by being the first artist to ever occupy all 10 positions at the same time, reports AFP.
Taking the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, “Anti-Hero,” led the charge.
The entire top 10 spots have been taken by one artist for the first time in the chart’s 64-year history, according to Billboard. The most recent performer to come close was Drake, who in September 2021 won nine of the coveted positions.
“10 of the Hot 100 out of 10? I’m on my tenth album? I AM IN SHAMBLES,” Swift wrote in reference to her loyal fan base’s penchant of looking for cryptic references to titles, numbers, and dates in her work.
The highly anticipated “Midnights,” Swift’s 10th studio album, was released on October 21. It also made its Billboard main albums chart debut at the top with the biggest week for a release since Adele’s “25” in 2015.
Even though the release of “Midnights” caused hours of Spotify downtime, the album nevertheless established a record for being the most streamed one in a single day, according to the service.
According to Swift, the 13 songs on the album “tell the story of 13 sleepless nights strewn throughout my life.”
When taken as a whole, they paint “a complete picture of the intensity of that baffling, insane hour.”
The seven additional tracks from the extended “3am version” as well as the three “Midnights” songs that did not make the top 10 both charted.
Following two pandemic albums that veered more toward folk, “Folklore” and “Evermore,” Swift’s most recent album sees her back to pop and bringing up some of her early songs.
It also comes out as the 32-year-old fulfills her promise to redo the recordings of her first six albums so she can retain the rights to them; she was contractually permitted to start this process in November 2020.
So far, “Fearless” and “Red,” two of them, have been made public.
