Making history, Taylor Swift is the first artist to have all 10 of the top songs on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Anti-Hero” at the top. Midnights, Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album, was released in October. The top song on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart is Anti-Hero. One of the most historic weeks in the chart’s 64-year history, Taylor Swift becomes the first artist to grab the entire top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in a single week.
Drake, who had nine of the top ten songs on the Hot 100 for a week in September 2021, is surpassed by Swift. Swift’s ninth career No. 1 single, “Anti-Hero,” sets her on another level from the other artists on the Hot 100.
All ten of the top singles on the Hot 100 are from Taylor Swift’s most recent album, Midnights, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart on October 21 the biggest week for any release in seven years.
With her monopoly of the top 10, Swift also surpasses Drake and The Beatles, who both dominated the top five for one week in 2021 and 1964, respectively, for the most Hot 100 titles from the top in a single week.
Swift now has 40 top 10s, which is more than Madonna’s 38, making her the female artist with the most in the history of the Hot 100. She comes in second only to Drake among all acts (59 top 10s).
Midnights also surpasses Certified Lover Boy by Drake’s nine 2021 Hot 100 top 10s to become the first album ever with ten top 10s. The album presently ranks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and broke streaming records when it was initially published.
Her song Anti-Hero, which is currently at number one, is followed by other tracks from the album, bringing her total number of number-one singles in her career to nine. With 40 top 10s, Taylor surpasses Madonna, who had 38, as the female artist with the most in the history of the chart.
Lavender Haze, Maroon, and Snow On The Beach, a tune made in conjunction with Lana Del Rey, join Anti-Hero at the top of the chart. Bejeweled, Question, and more songs are included in the top 10. The third and tenth songs are You’re On Your Own, Kid, and Karma, with Vigilante Sh*t.
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Shake It Off, Black Space, Bad Blood feat. Kendrick Lamar, Look What You Made Me Do, Cardigan, Willow, and most recently, Anti-Hero, are some of her most streamed songs that also happened to be No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album, Midnights, was made available on October 21, 2022, by Republic Records. The album, which was unveiled at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, is Swift’s first substantial body of brand-new material since her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore. With Jack Antonoff as the primary collaborator, Swift wrote and produced Midnights, a concept album about nocturnal reflection.
The album often makes me think of Lorde’s Pure Heroine and how that album’s sparse, hazy beats pierced through the richer radio singles of the early 2010s. It builds on the quietly stuttering Reputation tracks “Delicate” and “Dress.” Swift’s progress can seem uneven, even as it’s encouraging to hear her stretch her concept of pop beyond the fireworks of her pre-2020 songs.
She has also brought back some of her more theatrical tendencies in her switch from the Americana-lite of Folklore to glittering electronica. She summons her sarcastic, shit-stirring alter ego on “Karma” in a less spiteful mood, relishing in her competitors’ inescapable retribution. Swift’s attempts at edginess come over as a costume; nonetheless, the menacing, unsteady mutter hiding beneath the revenge fantasy “Vigilante Shit” calls to mind Billie Eilish’s debut.
Swift moved away from crafting autobiographical songs of 2020’s Folklore and Evermore and discovered new emotional depths in imaginary stories. She allowed herself the gift of emotional distance for what may have been the first time in a career founded on carefully controlled poetic bloodletting. She switches back to a diary-like format with Midnights, addressing the fundamental dichotomy between Taylor Swift the person, and the persona: She is excessively self-conscious yet hardly ever self-aware.
This latest release from Swift comes with a variety of supplementary tracks, as has become her recent practice. The seven extra songs on the unexpected “3 am Edition” range in quality and provide a little context for the album as a whole. In reality, she returns to electronic pop with Midnights after spending her previous two albums in what she dubbed the “folklorian woods.”
However, it may be unavoidable that people will be curious to see what Swift does next. In a world where tens of thousands of new recordings are published to streaming services every day, there has been a lot of discussion in recent years about the readiness of huge musicians to provide their fans with more of the same: creating an instantly recognizable brand.
