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Taylor Swift spends a record-extending 84th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Nov. 11) thanks to the explosive chart start of her latest rerecorded LP, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), plus nine additional albums on the Billboard 200, and 22 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Explore See latest videos, charts and […]
There’s not so much as a morsel of hope for a reunion, though a U.K. No. 1 album should give some comfort to long-suffering fans of Oasis.
The Britpop-era heavyweights lead the chart race with The Masterplan (via Big Brother), which enjoys a revival thanks to a 25th anniversary reissue.
Originally released in 1998, the LP collects b-sides from the Manchester band’s classic first three albums, 1994’s Definitely Maybe, 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? and 1997’s Be Here Now, and is led-off by “Acquiesce,” considered a stone-cold Oasis classic.
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The original version of The Masterplan peaked at No. 2 on the national chart. If it does manage to go one better, it would give Oasis a ninth leader (including all seven studio albums), and first in 13 years — since 2010 hits compilation Time Flies… (1994-2009).
The Masterplan would need to dethrone Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (via EMI), which is does on the Official Chart Update. The fourth in Swift’s recording projects, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) dips 1-2 on the chart blast.
Meanwhile, BTS singer Jung Kook is on track to land the top debut on the national chart with Golden (Interscope), which is forecast to start at No. 3. That would Jung Kook the highest-charting solo album in the U.K. from a member of BTS.
Legendary English pop singer Cliff Richard is on course for a 48th U.K. top 10 appearance with Cliff with Strings – My Kinda Life (EastWest/Rhino). The career retrospective, which collects some of Richard’s top hits, reimagined with orchestral arrangements by Chris Walden, is set to start at No. 4.
The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr could nab a fifth U.K. top 10 album with Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr (BMG), new at No. 6 on the midweek tally, while records from Caroline Polachek (Desire, I Want To Turn Into You reentering at No. 7 via Perpetual Novice) and Van Morrison (Accentuate The Positive at No. 9 via Exile) are close behind.
Finally, as the The Beatles fly towards a record-setting 18th No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart with “Now And Then,” the Fab Four’s hits collection 1 (Apple Corps) is set for a top 40 reentry, at No. 19. The album led the survey for nine consecutive weeks following its release back in 2000.
As previously reported, “Now And Then” is currently outselling the rest of the top 5 combined.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Albums and Singles Charts are published late Friday, Nov. 10.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 11), selling a whopping 1.359 million copies in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Luminate. As previously reported, that marks the biggest sales week of 2023, the largest sales week of any album since 2015, and the sixth-biggest sales week for an album since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s 13th No. 1 on Top Album Sales.
The first-week sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) were so large, they accounted for 43.8% of all albums sold in the U.S. in the tracking week: 1.359 million of the total 3.102 million sold. Further, focusing just on the physical copies of the album Swift sold (CD, vinyl and cassettes), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 1.261 million copies – representing 46.9% of all physical album sales last week (2.689 million physical albums were sold across all titles in the U.S.).
The sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) were enhanced by its availability in 15 collectible physical formats: five color vinyl variants, eight CD editions and two cassette editions. Of the five vinyl variants, Target carries a color variant that includes one bonus track (“Sweeter Than Fiction”). The album is also available to buy in two digital download editions: a standard 21-song version and a deluxe 22-song version (which adds a re-recorded version of the album’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar).
So far in 2023, Swift’s catalog of albums, across all of her titles, have sold 4.531 million copies – which accounts for 5.4% of all albums sold this year by all artists combined (83.758 million sold year to date). Swift is by far the year’s top-selling act by total album sales. Her collected albums have sold six times more than the year’s No. 2-selling act, Stray Kids, with 753,000 sold.
Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from SEVENTEEN, Grateful Dead and Duran Duran debut.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. The new Nov. 11, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 7. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
At No. 2 on Top Album Sales, SEVENTEEN’s SEVENTEENTH Heaven: 11th Mini Album arrives. It’s the sixth top 10-charting effort for the Korean pop group. The set bows with 98,000 copies sold, effectively all from CD sales, bolstered by its availability across 16 collectible CD variants.
The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds falls 2-3 in its second week, with 33,000 sold (down 65%).
Grateful Dead’s latest archival live album release, Dave’s Picks, Volume 48: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 11/20/71, debuts at No. 4 with 19,000 sold. It’s the 38th top 10-charting set for the band since Top Album Sales launched in 1991.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Name Chapter: Freefall dips 3-5 with 15,000 sold (down 48%).
Duran Duran’s new Danse Macabre debuts at No. 6 with 14,000 sold. It’s the fourth top 10-charting title on the 32-year-old Top Album Sales chart. The album’s sales were bolstered by its availability in five different vinyl iterations (adding up to a little over 5,000 sold), but its CD was its best-selling format, as its singular available CD sold nearly 6,000 copies.
Rounding out the new top 10 on Top Album Sales are four former No. 1s from Swift: Midnights (rising 8-7 with 13,000; up 48%), Lover (6-8 with 13,000; up 28%), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (11-9 with nearly 13,000; up 74%) and Folklore (9-10 with 12,000; up 43%). With five Swift titles in the top 10 concurrently, it’s the second time Swift held at least half of the top 10 in the same week. She previously did it on the July 22-dated chart, with six titles.
In the week ending Nov. 2, there were 3.102 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 75.5% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 2.689 million (up 88.9%) and digital albums comprised 413,000 (up 20%).
There were 1.233 million CD albums sold in the week ending Nov. 2 (up 105.1% week-over-week) and 1.434 vinyl albums sold (up 76.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 29.245 million (up 0.8% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 38.585 million (up 18.4%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 83.758 million (up 5.7% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 68.296 million (up 10.1%) and digital album sales total 15.462 million (down 10.1%).
After less than one day of availability, The Beatles’ “Now and Then” bounds in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart dated Nov. 11.
In the Oct. 27-Nov. 2 tracking week, “Now and Then” – with all of its sales in that span logged Nov. 2, after it premiered at 10 a.m. ET – sold 16,000 downloads in the U.S., according to Luminate.
The song also starts at No. 1 on Rock Digital Song Sales, and is The Beatles’ first leader on each retail ranking. (The band’s digital catalog was first made available in the iTunes Store in November 2010.)
As previously reported, “Now and Then” concurrently opens at No. 37 on Rock & Alternative Airplay with 1.1 million audience impressions on reporting rock radio stations in its first day. Among all formats, the song drew 2.6 million in audience Nov. 2.
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Elsewhere, “Now and Then” starts at Nos. 7 and 11 on the multi-metric Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts, respectively, with its sales and airplay also augmented by 2.3 million official U.S. streams Nov. 2.
The song starts at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart, which ranks the top 25 titles that have not yet hit the Hot 100.
Plus, the track opens at No. 152 on the Nov. 11-dated Billboard Global 200, with 6.4 million streams and 30,000 sold worldwide, again, all tallied Nov. 2.
“Now and Then” is billed as the final Beatles song, first recorded as a demo in 1977 by John Lennon and initially meant for the band’s The Beatles’ three-edition Anthology series in the mid-‘90s before being shelved by the surviving members of the band. It was completed and released this year after new technology helped extract Lennon’s vocals from the original demo while also using guitar recordings from George Harrison from the initial attempt to finish the song.
Notably, The Beatles released two new Anthology singles, each of which opened at No. 5 on the then-active Hot Singles Sales chart, which tracked physical singles before downloads became songs’ main sales currency in the 2000s. “Free as a Bird” began with 59,000 copies sold in its first week (Dec. 30, 1995) and “Real Love,” with 67,000 (March 23, 1996).
The first full week of activity, including physical copies, for “Now and Then” – whose official video premiered Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. ET – will be reflected on Billboard’s Nov. 18-dated charts, including the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot 100 (encompassing activity tracked Nov. 3-9).
All Billboard charts dated Nov. 11 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
Taylor Swift returns with another massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated Nov. 11), as all 21 songs from the standard edition of her latest re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), land on the latest Billboard Hot 100.
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The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, her 13th leader, with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in its opening week (Oct. 27-Nov. 2), according to Luminate. That’s not only the largest one-week total of 2023, but the biggest week for any album since the opening week of Adele’s 25 in November 2015 (3.482 million). Of the new set’s 1.653 million units, 1.359 million are from album sales, marking Swift’s largest sales week for a title to date.
Of Swift’s 22 total entries on the Hot 100 – all 21 from the new set, plus “Cruel Summer” (which falls to No. 6 after two weeks at No. 1) – 19 debut and two re-enter: “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” and “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” at Nos. 20 and 43, respectively, both new highs. Her re-recorded “Wildest Dreams” charted for one week at No. 37 in October 2021, after it appeared in the trailer for the 2021 DreamWorks Animation film Spirit Untamed, while the new version of “This Love” spent one frame, at No. 50, on the chart in May 2022, after its appearance in the trailer for the Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Here’s a look at all of Swift’s songs on the Nov. 11-dated Hot 100, all of which are debuts except where noted.
Taylor Swift on the Nov. 11-dated Hot 100:
No. 1, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 2, “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 3, “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 5, “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 6, “Cruel Summer” (down after two weeks at No. 1)
No. 7, “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 9, “Style (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 10, “Suburban Legends (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
No. 12, “Blank Space (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 14, “Welcome to New York (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 16, “Out of the Woods (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 19, “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” (re-entry; new peak)
No. 20, “All You Had to Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 28, “Shake It Off (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 29, “New Romantics (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 30, “Clean (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 31, “I Wish You Would (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 36, “I Know Places (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 39, “Wonderland (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 40, “How You Get the Girl (Taylor’s Version)”
No. 42, “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” (re-entry; new peak)
No. 43, “You Are in Love (Taylor’s Version)”
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With 18 debuts, Swift brings her total to 230 Hot 100 hits in her career, the second-most after Drake’s 321. She also ups her counts to 31 top five hits (passing The Beatles, Mariah Carey and Madonna for the second-most after Drake’s 41); 49 top 10s (second after Drake’s 76); 85 top 20 titles (second after Drake’s 132); and 137 top 40 entries (second after Drake’s 199).
Meanwhile, this is just the fourth week in which an artist has tallied at least eight songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously. Here’s a look at every such instance.
Most Simultaneous Entries in the Hot 100’s Top 10:
10, Taylor Swift, chart dated Nov. 5, 2022
9, Drake, Sept. 18, 2021
8, Drake, Nov. 19, 2022
8, Taylor Swift, Nov. 11, 2023
As “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)” debuts at No. 1, Swift ups her total to 11 career Hot 100 No. 1s, breaking out of a tie with Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder to tie Whitney Houston for the eighth-most of all time (dating to the chart’s 1958 start). The Beatles lead all acts with 20 No. 1s, followed by Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Drake (13), Michael Jackson (13) and Madonna (12) and The Supremes (12).
Taylor Swift’s “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 songs chart (dated Nov. 11). Swift claims the top six songs on the survey – a first in the chart’s three-year-plus history. She one-ups the prior mark, which she also held, as she swept the top five on the Global 200 dated Nov. 5, 2022, when her album Midnights made its chart start.
The top six songs on the latest Global 200 are from Swift’s newest rerecorded album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which bounds in atop the Billboard 200 chart, becoming her 13th No. 1 set, extending her mark for the most among women.
Swift also becomes the first artist to score new Global 200 No. 1s in consecutive weeks, as her new leader follows the coronation of her “Cruel Summer” a week earlier.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
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Six-cess: Swift Scores Record on Global 200
“Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” premieres at No. 1 on the Global 200 with 63.7 million streams and 7,000 sold worldwide in its first week (Oct. 27-Nov. 2). Swift earns her fourth No. 1 on the chart, following “Cruel Summer” a week ago and two songs that, like her latest, debuted on top: “Anti-Hero” led for four weeks beginning in November 2022 and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” reigned for a week in November 2021.
Swift breaks out of a tie with Olivia Rodrigo for the most Global 200 No. 1s among women. Overall, she ties Bad Bunny for the most among all soloists; among all acts, their four each trail only BTS’ seven.
As noted above, “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” leads six songs from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in the Global 200’s top six spots. Here’s a recap of their ranks, and worldwide streaming totals in the tracking week:
No. 1: “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 63.7 million streams worldwide
No. 2: “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 55.9 million
No. 3: “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 55 million
No. 4: “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 53.4 million
No. 5: “Style (Taylor’s Version),” 52 million
No. 6: “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version),” 46.3 million
Swift additionally starts at No. 9 on the Global 200 with “Blank Space (Taylor’s Version),” also from 1989 (Taylor’s Version), led by 45.2 million streams.
With seven new top 10 Global 200 hits, Swift ups her count to 24 top 10s since the chart began. She passes Bad Bunny (19) and ranks behind only Drake (35) for the most.
(Among the onslaught of Swift’s new top 10s, “Cruel Summer” falls to No. 11 on the Global 200.)
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Quintero Continues Atop Global Excl. U.S.
Iñigo Quintero’s “Si No Estás” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 51.6 million streams (down 5%) and 1,000 sold (down 9%) outside the U.S. Oct. 27-Nov. 2. The piano-pop song is the first entry on the ranking for the Spanish singer-songwriter.
Jung Kook’s “Seven” featuring Latto keeps at No. 2 following nine weeks at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S. beginning in July; Tate McRae’s “Greedy” is steady at its No. 3 high; and Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” rebounds 5-4, following two weeks on top starting in September.
Plus, Swift debuts three songs in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10, all from 1989 (Taylor’s Version): “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” at No. 5 (32.1 million streams outside the U.S.); “Style (Taylor’s Version),” at No. 7 (30.7 million); and “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” at No. 10 (27.9 million).
Swift now boasts 14 Global Excl. U.S. top 10s, moving her closer to Bad Bunny’s record 18 since the chart began.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Nov. 11, 2023) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday (Nov. 7). For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
Renowned songwriter Diane Warren returns to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 as Taylor Swift’s “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” launches at No. 5 on the chart dated Nov. 11. Warren and Swift co-wrote the song in 2013, and, released at last on Swift’s album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), it becomes Warren’s 33rd career top 10, and her first since 2001.
“Everything has its time, you know?” Warren told Rolling Stone about the track. “It took a while to see the light of day, but I’m glad it finally did. It was worth the wait.”
As previously reported, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking her 13th leader.
Warren — who has won a Grammy, a Primetime Emmy and an honorary Oscar, is a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, among other honors — first reached the Hot 100’s top 10 as a writer in 1983 thanks to Laura Branigan’s No. 7-peaking single “Solitaire.” (Warren wrote English lyrics to Martine Clémenceau’s song, released in 1981.) She had last sent a composition to the region when Faith Hill’s “There You’ll Be” hit No. 10 in 2001.
Thanks to the debut of “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version),” Warren’s span of appearing in the Hot 100’s top 10 as a writer extends to a milestone 40 years, and six months (May 14, 1983-Nov. 11, 2023).
Among Warren’s top 10s, she has penned nine Hot 100 No. 1s, from Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” in 1987 through Brandy’s “Have You Ever?” in 1999. (As for another of her leaders, after topping the Hot 100 for two weeks, Milli Vanilli’s “Blame It on the Rain” fell from the summit on the chart dated Dec. 9, 1989, the current ranking when Swift was born four days later.)
Swift, meanwhile, notches seven new Hot 100 top 10s, all of which she co-wrote, led by “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” at No. 1, marking her 11th leader. She now claims a landmark 50 career top 10s as a writer.
Here’s an updated recap of Warren’s 33 Hot 100 top 10s.
Diane Warren’s Hot 100 Top 10s as a Writer:
“Solitaire,” Laura Branigan / No. 7 peak, May 21, 1983
“Rhythm of the Night,” DeBarge / No. 3, April 27, 1985
“Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” Starship / No. 1 (two weeks), beginning April 4, 1987
“Who Will You Run To,” Heart / No. 7, Oct. 3, 1987
“I Get Weak,” Belinda Carlisle / No. 2, March 19, 1988
“I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love,” Chicago / No. 3, Aug. 27, 1988
“Look Away,” Chicago / No. 1 (two weeks), beginning Dec. 10, 1988
“If I Could Turn Back Time,” Cher / No. 3, Sept. 23, 1989
“When I See You Smile,” Bad English / No. 1 (two weeks), beginning Nov. 11, 1989
“Blame It on the Rain,” Milli Vanilli / No. 1 (two weeks), beginning Nov. 25, 1989
“Just Like Jesse James,” Cher / No. 8, Dec. 23, 1989
“Love Will Lead You Back,” Taylor Dayne / No. 1 (one week), April 7, 1990
“How Can We Be Lovers?,” Michael Bolton / No. 3, May 5, 1990
“I’ll Be Your Shelter,” Taylor Dayne / No. 4, July 14, 1990
“When I’m Back on My Feet Again,” Michael Bolton / No. 7, Aug. 4, 1990
“Time, Love and Tenderness,” Michael Bolton / No. 7, Sept. 14, 1991
“Set the Night to Music,” Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest / No. 6, Nov. 16, 1991
“If You Asked Me To,” Celine Dion / No. 4, July 11, 1992
“Saving Forever for You,” Shanice / No. 4, Jan. 30, 1993
“I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me),” Expose / No. 8, July 17, 1993
“Don’t Turn Around,” Ace of Base / No. 4, June 18, 1994
“Because You Loved Me,” Celine Dion / No. 1 (six weeks), beginning March 23, 1996
“Un-Break My Heart,” Toni Braxton / No. 1 (11 weeks), beginning Dec. 7, 1996
“For You I Will,” Monica / No. 4, April 19, 1997
“The One I Gave My Heart To,” Aaliyah / No. 9, Nov. 15, 1997
“How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes / No. 2, Dec. 13, 1997
“The Arms of the One Who Loves You,” Xscape / No. 7, May 30, 1998
“I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing,” Aerosmith / No. 1 (four weeks), beginning Sept. 5, 1998
“Have You Ever?,” Brandy / No. 1 (wo weeks), beginning Jan. 16, 1999
“Music of My Heart,” *NSYNC & Gloria Estefan / No. 2, Oct. 16, 1999
“I Turn to You,” Christina Aguilera / No. 3, July 1, 2000
“There You’ll Be,” Faith Hill / No. 10, June 30, 2001
“Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” Taylor Swift / No. 5 (to date), Nov. 11, 2023
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Can “Cruel Summer” hold its top spot after Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Verison) has completely taken over our charts? And Doja Cat and SZA are still holding on to their spots in the top 10. Tetris Kelly:This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Nov. 11. We kick off the week […]
Taylor Swift’s “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” launches at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The track is from Swift’s newest rerecorded album, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which blasts in atop the Billboard 200, becoming her 13th No. 1 set, extending her mark for the most among women.
On the Hot 100, Swift scores her 11th No. 1 – and dethrones her 10th, “Cruel Summer,” after two weeks on top. She replaces herself at the summit for a second time, and is the only woman ever to have achieved the feat.
Swift claims eight songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, with her two latest leaders joined by six additional debuts from 1989 (Taylor’s Version). She ups her career count to 49 top 10s, the most among women and second among all acts only to Drake’s 69.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Nov. 11, 2023) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday (Nov. 7). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Here’s a look at the coronation of “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” the 1,159th single to top the Hot 100 over the chart’s 65-year history, and the 73rd to debut at No. 1 (and Swift’s sixth to enter at the top spot) – as well as a rundown of all of Swift’s new top 10s on the list.
Streams, airplay & sales: Released Oct. 27 on 1989 (Taylor’s Version), “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” drew 32 million streams and 4.7 million radio airplay audience impressions and sold 5,000 downloads in the tracking week ending Nov. 2, according to Luminate.
The single also debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, becoming Swift’s eighth leader, and No. 7 on Digital Song Sales. It also begins at No. 38 on the Pop Airplay chart, and is being actively promoted as a single to radio.
Swift’s 11th Hot 100 No. 1: With her 11th Hot 100 No. 1, Swift ties Whitney Houston for the eighth-most since the chart began on Aug. 4, 1958.
Most Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s:
20, The Beatles
19, Mariah Carey
14, Rihanna
13, Drake
13, Michael Jackson
12, Madonna
12, The Supremes
11, Whitney Houston
11, Taylor Swift
10, Janet Jackson
10, Stevie Wonder
Here’s a recap of Swift’s 11 Hot 100 No. 1s, which now include two rerecorded “(Taylor’s Version)” tracks, as her new leader joins “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” from 2021:
“Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” one week at No. 1 to-date, Nov. 11, 2023
“Cruel Summer,” two weeks, beginning Oct. 28, 2023
“Anti-Hero,” eight weeks, beginning Nov. 5, 2022
“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” one week, Nov. 27, 2021
“Willow,” one week, Dec. 26, 2020
“Cardigan,” one week, Aug. 8, 2020
“Look What You Made Me Do,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 16, 2017
“Bad Blood,” feat. Kendrick Lamar, one week, June 6, 2015
“Blank Space,” seven weeks, beginning Nov. 29, 2014
“Shake It Off,” four weeks, beginning Sept. 6, 2014
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 1, 2012
3 No. 1s, 3 Albums in ‘23: Swift becomes the first artist to spend time atop the Hot 100 with three songs in 2023. Prior to “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” she led with “Cruel Summer,” revived from her 2019 album Lover, and “Anti-Hero” (which first led in 2022), from last year’s Midnights.
Swift is the first woman to top the Hot 100 with three songs from three distinct albums by the same act in a single year. Among all acts, she’s the first since the Jackson 5 in 1970; the group broke through that year with the No. 1s “I Want You Back” from Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5; “ABC” and “The Love You Save”/”I Found That Girl” from ABC; and “I’ll Be There” from their Third Album LP. (The Beatles lead the category with six No. 1s from five albums in 1964.)
Swift Takes ‘Over’ for Swift: As “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” bumps “Cruel Summer” from No. 1 on the Hot 100, Swift replaces herself at the summit for a second time, and is the only woman to have achieved the feat at all. She first made for a one-person relay team when “Blank Space” supplanted “Shake It Off” atop the Nov. 29, 2014-dated chart.
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Swift’s Seven New Top 10s: “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” paces seven songs from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in the Hot 100’s top 10. Here’s a recap of their ranks, and streaming totals (with streams marking each title’s top metric in the tracking week).
No. 1: “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 32 million streams
No. 2: “Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 28.2 million
No. 3: “Slut! (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 27 million
No. 5: “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 25.8 million
No. 7: “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version),” 21.64 million
No. 9: “Style (Taylor’s Version),” 21.58 million
No. 10: “Suburban Legends (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault],” 20.2 million
Swift swells her career total to 49 Hot 100 top 10s, the most among women and second among all acts only to Drake’s 69.
Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s:
76, Drake
49, Taylor Swift
38, Madonna
34, The Beatles
32, Rihanna
30, Michael Jackson
29, Elton John
28, Mariah Carey
28, Stevie Wonder
27, Janet Jackson
26, Justin Bieber
25, Lil Wayne
25, Elvis Presley (whose career start predated the Hot 100’s inception)
New ‘Blood,’ Not Out of ‘Style’: Swift returns two compositions to the Hot 100’s top 10, as “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)” debuts at No. 7 and “Style (Taylor’s Version)” starts at No. 9. The original version of the former, as noted above, led for a week and the initial version of the latter hit No. 6, both in 2015.
Swift sends revamped versions of her songs to the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time. She previously came closest to the feat when “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” hit No. 11 in 2021, after the original reached No. 4 in 2009. She’s the first artist to take a song to the top 10 via different versions in just over 20 years: In August 2003, Uncle Kracker’s update of “Drift Away,” featuring Dobie Gray, hit No. 9, after Gray’s original reached No. 5 in 1973.
(Notably, the original “Bad Blood” was remixed adding featured artist Kendrick Lamar in 2015. Two “[Taylor’s Version]” mixes of the song are on 1989 [Taylor’s Version]; with the mix without Lamar drawing more consumption in the tracking week than the one with him, he is not billed on the Hot 100 on “Bad Blood [Taylor’s Version].”)
Easy as 1-2-3: Swift infuses the Hot 100’s top three for a second time, following the Nov. 5, 2022, chart, when her album Midnights premiered atop the Billboard 200. The Beatles (five weeks, 1964), Drake (three, 2021-23) and Swift are the only acts with multiple such weeks, with Ariana Grande having earned the honor once, in 2019.
Plus, as Swift scores eight songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, she achieves her second week with at least that many simultaneous top 10s, following the frame in which 10 tracks from Midnights made for a historic sweep, led by “Anti-Hero” at No. 1. The only other such weeks belong to Drake, who logged nine and eight top 10s on the charts dated Sept. 18, 2021, and Nov. 19, 2022, respectively, each likewise sparked by his chart arrivals of new albums.
All-Female Hot 100 Top 10: In addition to Swift’s eight songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” ranks at No. 4 and SZA’s “Snooze” drifts off to No. 8. The chart hosts just the second all-woman top 10 in its history, following, again, the Nov. 5, 2022, chart, when Swift ranked at Nos. 1-10 with songs from Midnights (with Lana Del Rey featured on the No. 4 track that week, “Snow on the Beach”).
Swift, Warren & Martin’s Top 10s as Writers: As Swift expands her haul to 49 career Hot 100 top 10s as a recording artist, she now boasts a milestone 50 top 10s as a songwriter. She has written all 49 top 10s that she’s recorded and also sports writing credit on Olivia Rodrigo’s “Deja Vu,” which hit No. 3 in 2021; Swift is among those credited as a writer on the song, given its perceived similarities to “Cruel Summer.”
Meanwhile, two other writers with extensive Hot 100 histories pad their counts of top 10s. Diane Warren co-wrote “Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” and Max Martin co-penned both “Bad Blood (Taylor’s Version)” and “Style (Taylor’s Version).” Warren has now written 33 top 10s – which have charted over a span of 40 years and six months – while Martin has authored 78 top 10s, spanning 26 years and four months.
Beyond Swift’s seven new Hot 100 top 10s, “Cruel Summer,” down to No. 6 from No. 1, adds a third week atop the Radio Songs chart, with 75.4 million audience impressions (down 6%).
Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, as noted above, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” drops 2-4 and SZA’s “Snooze” falls 3-8. The former, which led for three nonconsecutive beginning in September, notches a ninth and 10th week, respectively, atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100. The latter, which hit No. 2 on the Hot 100, rules the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart for a 14th week.
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The Beatles’ “last” song “Now And Then” is on track for the U.K. chart title.
Based on sales and streaming data captured from the first 48 hours in the chart week, “Now And Then” is in pole position, outselling the rest of the top 5 combined, the Official Charts Company reports.
If it holds its spot, “Now And Then” will become the Fab Four’s 18th U.K. chart-leader, and their first in 54 years, since “The Ballad of John and Yoko” topped the weekly tally back in 1969.
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“Now And Then” actually debuted at No. 42 in the U.K. last week based on just 10 hours of sales, but is now expected to jump 41 places to the top of the Official Singles Chart when chart is published this Friday, Nov. 10.
The crown would cap a remarkable journey for “Now And Then.” The track began life as a demo written and sung by John Lennon, was later developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now completed by Paul and Ringo, the surviving members of The Beatles, more than 40 years after the group began work on it.
The late Lennon’s vocals and piano part were recorded to tape at New York’s Dakota Building in the 1970s, and remained there until film director Peter Jackson and his team at WingNut Films developed the MAL audio technology, powered by AI, which could separate the stems. The result is a lush production, with a string arrangement, written by Giles Martin, Paul and Ben Foster, and featuring contributions from all four Beatles.
On the day of its release last Thursday (Nov. 2), “Now And Then” was named as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record. The song is all-love, McCartney told Radio 1’s Clara Amfo. “Just a loving feeling,” he says of the recording, “because that’s often what we were trying to do with our records, we were trying to spread love. And in this one it is very poignant. It’s John talking about ‘I miss you’ and stuff like that so, I think emotion, that would be the key word for people to take away from it, ‘emotion’.”
Jackson helmed the official music video for “Now And Then,” which dropped last Friday.
The closest competition on the First Look chart, according to the Official Charts Company, is BTS star Jung Kook’s “Standing Next To You,” which is eyeing a No. 2 start. That would be the K-pop artist’s highest peak of his solo career in the U.K. Jung Kook has three U.K. top 10s to his name, with a best of No. 3 for 2023’s “Seven” featuring Latto.