Taylor Swift Scores Record-Extending 66th Week at No. 1 on Artist 100 Chart

Taylor Swift extends her grounds tally arsenic nan apical philharmonic enactment successful nan United States, arsenic she spends a 66th week astatine No. 1 connected nan Billboard Artist 100 floor plan (dated May 27).

Swift rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1, acknowledgment successful ample portion to 9 albums connected nan Billboard 200, each of which rank successful nan chart’s apical 40. A week earlier, she became nan first creator to floor plan 9 albums successful nan Billboard 200’s apical 40 simultaneously, and now she becomes nan first creator to execute nan feat doubly (since nan floor plan became a mixed stereo and mono albums study successful August 1963). Here’s a recap.

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Swift besides charts 2 songs connected nan Billboard Hot 100: “Anti-Hero,” astatine No. 10, aft it became her longest-leading No. 1 deed (eight weeks), and her caller power azygous “Karma,” which climbs 35-32 pinch apical Airplay Gainer honors for a 3rd consecutive week, up 24% to 29.5 cardinal successful all-format power assemblage May 12-18, according to Luminate. Both songs are from Midnights, which earned 60,000 balanced medium units (up 1%) successful nan search week. It antecedently led nan Billboard 200 for 5 weeks.

Swift has spent nan astir weeks astatine No. 1 successful nan Artist 100’s nine-year history. Drake is adjacent pinch 37, followed by The Weeknd (28), BTS (21), and Adele (20).

Elsewhere connected nan Artist 100, Jonas Brothers re-enter astatine No. 5, acknowledgment to their sixth LP, The Album. The group launches astatine No. 3 connected nan Billboard 200 pinch 52,000 units, becoming nan trio’s seventh apical 10.

Daft Punk returns astatine No. 7 connected nan Artist 100, hitting nan apical 10 for nan first time, acknowledgment to a caller 10th day deluxe reissue of nan duo’s seminal LP Random Access Memories. The group re-enters nan Billboard 200 astatine No. 8 (40,000 units) and nan Vinyl Albums floor plan astatine No. 1 (26,000 sold connected vinyl) for a 5th full week connected top. It spent 2 weeks atop nan Billboard 200 during its original floor plan tally successful 2013, becoming nan first and only leader for Daft Punk, which disbanded successful 2021.

Bailey Zimmerman jumps 20-10 connected nan Artist 100, astir besting his No. 9 peak, acknowledgment to Religiously: The Album. The 16-song group arrives astatine No. 7 connected nan Billboard 200 pinch 47,000 units, becoming his 2nd apical 10, aft his 2022 merchandise Leave nan Light On.

The Artist 100 measures creator activity crossed cardinal metrics of euphony consumption, blending medium and way sales, power airplay and streaming to supply a play multi-dimensional ranking of creator popularity.