Taylor Swift surpassed Elvis Presley in a famous chart, but failed to beat the Beatles

While 1989 (Taylor’s version), From Taylor Swift, records its fifth (non-consecutive) week in number 1 on the Billboard 200Swift outperforms Elvis Presley most weeks at No. 1 for a solo artist.

As reported Scoreboard on New Year’s Eve, Swift has now achieved 68 weeks at No. 1a week longer than Presley himself, who managed to be 67 weeks at the top between 1956 and 2002.

Billboard 200 AND an American music chart belonging to the music magazine Scoreboard.​ Its goal is to offer a list of the two hundred best-selling albums of each week.

The Beatles continue to lead all artistswith 132 weeks at the top, but Swift’s strong performance is impressive considering this The card dates back to March 1956, more than 33 years before his birth.

Different careers

The Billboard 200 spans Presley’s entire career. His debut album, Elvis Presleyentered the list at number 11 in the March 31, 1956 issue. The famous chart began weekly publication on March 24, 1956. Two footnotes: The Beatles and Presley could increase their totals of weeks at #1 with the arrival of a new compilation or if one of their existing albums comes back remastered or something.

Furthermore, if we count the soundtrack of Saturday night Feverwhich spent 24 weeks at number 1 in 1978 as a Bee Geesthe trio spent 31 weeks at the top. The Bee Gees had six songs on the album, five of which were hits. Anyway, poor Bee Gees, the demanding Billboard considers it a “soundtrack” album by various artists.

According to the specialized magazine, It is the first time a woman has made such a story in sixty years of existence in the album charts.. Swift also set a record for female artist with the most No. 1 albums: has a dozen, surpassing Barbra Streisand, with whom she was previously tied with 11 each.

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Swift’s third album had topped the Billboard 200 with 716,000 album-equivalent units. The previous best figure was One thing at a timeby the country music singer Morgan Wallen, which debuted in March with 501,000.

The other three albums Swift has in her triumphant tetralogy, in the top 10, are midnight, of 2022 in (position 5), loverssince 2019 in position 7, e Folklorefrom 2020, at position 10.

Speak Now (Taylor’s version)She said Variety, also marked the biggest debut number of the three re-recordings Swift has released to date. In his campaign for “redo” all the albums which he had originally recorded for his old label, Big Machine, Red (Taylor’s Version) now in second placehaving released with 605,000 units by the end of 2021.

Another record for Taylor Swift: first female artist to reach 1st place00 million monthly listeners on Spotify

The company has released the interpreter’s report Blank spacewhich is surpassed only by The weekendwhich reached 100 million per month last February and is already at 110.

Behind Swift is Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bad Bunnywith 80 million, and the British singer Ed Sheeranwith 77 million.