(New York) Singer Taylor Swift made American music history on Monday by dropping ten songs from her new album Midnights to the first ten places of the Billboard Hot 100 ranking, a first.
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According to Billboard, this is the first time in 64 years that an artist has achieved such a performance, with the pop star doing better than rapper Drake, who had nine songs in the top 10 places in September 2021.
The October 21 release of his tenth album, Midnightseagerly awaited by her fans, and which marks a return of the American singer to her pop inclinations, had caused blackouts on Spotify before breaking the record for the album “the most listened to in a single day”, announced the platform. of streaming.
“10 out of 10 in the Hot 100? ? ? On my 10e scrapbook? ? ? I AM STUNNED,” the 32-year-old singer and songwriter reacted on Twitter.
According to Billboard, during the week of October 21 to 27, the track Anti-hero rose to the top of the rankings (59.7 million listens), ahead of Lavender Haze (41.4 million), then brown and Snow on the Beacha collaboration with Lana Del Rey.
In the album Midnightswhich also made the best debut as an album on the Billboard 200 since Adele’s, 25in 2015, Taylor Swift abandoned the indie-folk vein of her two previous albums written during the pandemic, evermore and folkloreto turn more towards electro-pop.
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