Thursday, November 20, 2014

Taylor Swift Has Topped The US Billboard Chart Again This Week

That’s right, Taylor Swift has topped the US Billboard chart again this week as Taylor Swift's 1989 went no. 1 for third week on Billboard 200.


Now, as you may know that Taylor Swift's 1989 album spends a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, according to Billboard, making it only the second album to spend three weeks atop the list in 2014. Only the Frozen soundtrack, which racked 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, spent longer at the top. Great for a Taylor Swift album.

1989 sold 312,000 copies in the week ending Nov. 16 -- down just 22 percent in its third frame -- according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the first album to sell more than 300,000 copies in its first three weeks since Beyonce's self-titled effort in December 2013. Beyonce debuted at No. 1 with 617,000 (from only three days of sales), then spent a second (374,000) and third week (310,000) at No. 1.

1989's total sales now stand at 2 million. It continues to rank as 2014's second-largest-selling album, behind the Frozen soundtrack (3.25 million). They are the only two albums to sell a million copies in 2014.

In total, Taylor Swift has spent 27 cumulative weeks at No. 1 with her four chart-topping albums. That puts her ahead of Barbra Streisand on the list of women with the most weeks at No. 1. Among leading ladies, Whitney Houston has the most (46 weeks), followed by Mariah Carey (30), Taylor Swift (27) and Barbara Streisand (26).

It's likely that Taylor Swift will step aside next week for a new No. 1: One Direction's Four. The latter could sell over 420,000 in the week ending Nov. 23, according to industry forecasters. This will make 1989 the smallest number of consecutive number 1 weeks for all the Taylor Swift albums with just 3. But wait, that’s not all.


Taylor Swift makes Hot 100 history with Blank Space. That’s right, Blank Space has peaked at number 1 on Hot 100 chart this week. In fact, over on the Digital Songs chart, Taylor Swift's Blank Space bumps up to No. 1, selling 328,000 downloads (up 100 percent).

Taylor Swift makes history on the Billboard Hot 100, where her single Blank Space blasts from No. 13 to No. 1. As the song dethrones her prior smash, Shake It Off, after four weeks atop the chart, Swift becomes the first woman in the Hot 100's 56-year history to succeed herself at the top spot.

Blank Space, released on Big Machine Records and promoted to radio by Republic Records, takes over at No. 1 following the Nov. 10 release of its official video.

So you know what that means? It's Wednesday, the day that the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100 is tallied, and we've got some blank spaces (baby) … let's see whose names get written in the chart's top 10 and more.

With her coronation, Taylor Swift tallies her third Hot 100 No. 1, following Shake It Off (which falls to No. 3) and 2012's three-week leader We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

Taylor Swift is, amazingly, the first woman in the Hot 100's history to succeed herself at No. 1. She's just the 10th act to do so overall, following the Beatles, who scored three toppers in a row (I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You and Can't Buy Me Love) in 1964; Boyz II Men (1994); Puff Daddy (as he was then billed) (1997); Ja Rule (2002); Nelly (2002); OutKast (2004); Usher (2004); T.I. (2008); and the Black Eyed Peas (2009). (Puff Daddy and Ja Rule each doubled up thanks to a lead and featured role.)

Thanks to Shake It Off and Blank Space, Taylor Swift is the only artist with two Hot 100 No. 1s this year. This will make Shake It Off and Blank Space Taylor Swift’s 10th overall US number 1 single and 11th overall US number 1 single respectively. The other US number 1 Taylor Swift singles include Our Song (US Hot Country Songs), Should’ve Said No (US Hot Country Songs), Love Story (US Adult Contemporary, US Hot Country Songs, US Mainstream Top 40),  You Belong With Me (US Adult Contemporary, US Hot Country Songs), Mine (US Adult Contemporary), Sparks Fly (US Hot Country Songs), Ours (US Hot Country Songs), We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (US Billboard Hot 100 ,US Hot Country Songs), and I Knew You Were Trouble (US Adult Top 40, US Mainstream Top 40).

Plus, parent album 1989 earns the increasingly rare honor of seeing its first two singles top the Hot 100. The album is the first to send its first two singles (officially promoted to radio) to the top since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's The Heist (Thrift Shop, Can't Hold Us) last year. It's the first by a woman since Adele's 21 (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You) in 2011-12.

And, with its 13-1 vault, Blank Space logs the biggest jump to the apex since Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball swung 22-1 on Sept. 28, 2013, also after the release of its official (and oh-so-buzzed-about) video. (Shake If Off became just the 22nd single in Hot 100 history to debut at No. 1, while We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together flew 72-1 following its first full week of retail availability after it initially charted from early airplay.) How did Blank Space rocket to the top of the Hot 100? Its video arrival spurs the song's No. 1 debut on the Streaming Songs chart with 19.2 million U.S. streams in the week ending Nov. 16, according to Nielsen BDS. (Of the sum, almost all is from clicks for the clip on Vevo on YouTube.) It's the second-highest weekly streaming total this year; Nicki Minaj's Anaconda snared 32.1 million, after its video premiere, as well, on the Sept. 6 chart.

The Blank Space video's premiere likewise drives sales, as the track returns for a second week atop Digital Songs (2-1; 328,000 downloads sold, up 100 percent).

While still fairly new at radio, Blank Space is moving fast: in its second week on Radio Songs, it bounds 23-9 with a 42 percent increase to 70 million in all-format audience, according to BDS. Just three songs since 2006 have reached the Radio Songs top 10 in two weeks or less … and Shake It Off and Blank Space are two of them (two weeks each); Lady Gaga's Born This Way launched at No. 6 in 2011.

All the activity leads to Blank Space earning the Hot 100's top Digital and Airplay Gainer awards.

As Taylor Swift claims the Hot 100's top rank (becoming the 1,040th No. 1 in the chart's history), Meghan Trainor's former eight-week Hot 100 No. 1 All About That Bass holds at No. 2. It slips 1-3 after eight weeks atop Digital Songs (126,000, down 34 percent); stays at No. 2 on Streaming Songs, which it led for nine weeks (11.9 million, down 3 percent); and drops 4-5 on Radio Songs (95 million, down 20 percent), which it ruled for three frames.

After spending its first 12 weeks on the Hot 100 at either No. 1 or 2 (four at the former), Shake It Off falls 1-3. As on the Hot 100, Blank Space replaces Shake It Off atop Streaming Songs (where it reached No. 1 last week).

Now, if only Avril Lavigne should bring back number 1 peaks in general much like Taylor Swift did if it wasn’t for Sony Music, RCA and Epic Records. Why America Avril Lavigne number 1s only have Let Go singles and Girlfriend? Why can’t Avril Lavigne songs in general be huge in America like My Happy Ending (despite the song peaked at number 1 on Mainstream Top 40 chart) and Here’s To Never Growing Up? Avril Lavigne is suppose to make more number singles after 2007’s Girlfriend. But no, RCA and bratty songs ruined number 1 Avril Lavigne singles after 2002. Avril Lavigne should’ve been perfect artist for among more number 1 singles, but Sony Music blew it. I guess the only way is inventions. So, if Avril Lavigne’s sixth album’s lead single is a different Avril Lavigne single rather than a radio unfriendly bratty single and make it similar to Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off except it’s an angry rock anthem single, then it will be a big win for Avril Lavigne and number 1 singles. So what AL can do is to move to Universal Music Group after resigning Sony Music and have her making her first rock album. OK, rant over. Back to Taylor Swift. Shall we?

With Blank Space becoming her 11th number 1 single in the US, it’s time for Taylor Swift to team up with MTV for a Taylor Swift MTV marathon coming this December. We’re all exciting to see more Taylor Swift on MTV this Christmas. It should have all the Taylor Swift music videos including her first music video from 2006 for Tim McGraw along with Highway Don’t Care and the music video for The Last Time. So make it happen, MTV and Taylor Swift. Next up, Out Of The Woods and later, Bad Blood, her 2015 Christmas EP and her 2016 great hits album. Can't wait. :D

So what do think about Blank Space peaked at number 1 on Hot 100?

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