Out of the 1,144 songs that have topped the Hot 100 over its 64-year history, less than 1% can boast spending their first six weeks of charting at #1.
This week, Taylor Swift‘s enduring ‘Midnights’ hit, ‘Anti-Hero,’ joined that exclusive list.
Much like the Billboard 200 (as we reported here), peruse of the refreshed Hot 100 show Swift sitting pretty at #1.
On the latter tally, her tune ‘Anti-Hero’ continues to fend off surging Holiday songs – many of which collecting gargantuan streams as Christmas draws closer.
Here are the numbers that kept the yuletide tunes at bay.
- Streaming: 20.9 million U.S.-based streams
- Digital Downloads: 13,000 sold
- Radio Airplay: 68.9 million audience impressions
The figures also helped lift Taylor into an exclusive Hot 100 club.
“…of the 64 singles that have debuted atop the Hot 100, “Anti-Hero” is just the 10th to have spent at least its first six weeks on the chart at No. 1.
Singles to Spend Their First Six Weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1:
Title, Artist, Year(s), Weeks at No. 1 from debut (marking titles’ total weeks at No. 1 unless otherwise noted)
“Anti-Hero,” Taylor Swift, 2022 (six, to-date)
“Butter,” BTS, 2021 (seven / 10 weeks at No. 1 total)
“Drivers License,” Olivia Rodrigo, 2021 (eight)
“God’s Plan,” Drake, 2018 (11)
“Hello,” Adele, 2015-16 (10)
“Born This Way,” Lady Gaga, 2011 (six)
“Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” 1997-98 (14)
“I’ll Be Missing You,” Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112, 1997 (11)
“One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96 (16)
“Fantasy,” Mariah Carey, 1995 (eight)”
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Check back later this week to see who joins Taylor in the Hot 100’s top 25 courtesy of our weekly chart recap, ‘TGJ Chart Check.’
And the history-making broken records just keep on coming! 😝
She such an inspiration in the sense that you can achieve greatness w/o that much of real talent lmao
Mariah Carey is the only artist to had it twice. True Queen.