Whereas ‘Midnights,’ the most recent album from Taylor Swift, is having fun with a really a lot anticipated domination of the Billboard Scorching 100 and Billboard 200, few might have foreseen the extent of its carnage.
On the Billboard 200 entrance, ‘Midnights’ entered the chart at #1 with a whopping 1.5 million items offered – a feat completed by record-breaking vinyl gross sales and streams (as we reported right here).
And whereas its prolonged record of wins on that chart are mirrored by these on the Scorching 100, there are just a few standouts on the latter tally – particularly the variety of legendary acts she leaves in her rearview within the wake of the LP’s success.
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Earlier than the announcement of the up to date Scorching 100 Monday (October 31), the Pop diva had collected 30 prime 10 hits over her profession – tying her with King of Pop Michael Jackson‘s all-time report.
As reported right here, the refreshed model of the tally exhibits Swift proudly owning your complete prime 10 by her lonesome because of cuts discovered aboard ‘Midnights.’ That is the primary time within the chart’s 64-year historical past any artist has ever completed such a feat.
With the addition of the ten new prime 10 placements, Taylor takes her career-long prime 10 whole to 40. The leap not solely sees her surpass Jackson but in addition Rihanna (31 prime 10s), The Beatles (34 prime 10s), and Queen of Pop Madonna (38 prime 10s) within the course of to turn out to be the second artist (first feminine) in historical past to personal as many prime 10 hits. At writing, the one act to have collected extra prime 10 hits is Drake (who owns 59).
Click on right here to see what different wonderful Scorching 100 wins Taylor collected because of ‘Midnights.’
