According to Billboard, this is the first time in 64 years that an artist has achieved such a success, the pop star doing better than rapper Drake, who had collected nine songs on the first 10 places in September 2021.
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Singer Taylor Swift made American music history on Monday with a first.
The release on October 21 of his tenth album Midnights, eagerly awaited by her fans, and which marks a return of the American singer to her pop leanings, had caused blackouts on Spotify before breaking the record for the album “the most listened to in a single day”, announced the streaming platform.
“10 out of 10 in the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM AMAZED”, reacted the 32-year-old singer and songwriter on Twitter.
10 out of 10 of the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM IN SHAMBLES. https://t.co/q1n5Zc6pYA
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 31, 2022
According to Billboard, during the week of October 21 to 27, the song 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 Midnights, which 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 “folklore”, to turn more towards electro-pop. Taylor Swift shares her thoughts on love and advancing age inexorably.