Taylor Swift made music history on Monday, becoming the first artist ever to hold all 10 spots on the US singles chart at the same time following the release of her album ‘Midnights’.
Taylor Swift. Photo: @taylorswift13/Twitter
NEW YORK – Taylor Swift made music history on Monday, becoming the first female artist to simultaneously hold all 10 spots on the US singles chart following the release of an album At midnight.
Antihero led the way, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
It’s the first time in the chart’s 64-year history that one artist has topped the entire top 10, according to Billboard.
The last artist to come close was Drake, who took nine of the coveted spots in September 2021.
“10 out of 10 from the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM IN SHAMBLES,” Swift tweeted, nodding to her devoted fans’ love of finding hidden clues in her content, including names, numbers and dates.
Swift released the long-awaited At midnight – her 10th studio album – October 21, which also debuted atop Billboard’s main album chart with the biggest weekly release since Adele 25 in 2015.
Liberation At midnight took Spotify down for a few hours, but still set the record for the most-streamed album in a day, according to the platform.
“The album’s 13 songs tell ‘the story of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life,'” Swift said.
Together they form “a complete picture of the intensity of that mysterious, maddened hour.”
Three songs are excluded At midnight is also not in the top 10, as are seven more tracks from the extended “3am edition”.
Swift’s latest album sees her return to pop music and reminisce about some of her earliest hits after two pandemonium albums, Folklore and Alwaysleaned towards birth.
It also comes down as the 32-year-old fulfills her vow to re-record her first six albums so she can control the rights to them – a process she is contractually allowed to begin in November 2020.
So far, she has released two of them: Fearless and Red.
