As we patiently await the arrival of Taylor Swift’s next album re-recording, we can join the pop star in celebrating another milestone. On Monday, July 18, the pop star’s music video for “Blank Space” hit 3 billion views on YouTube.
Originally released as the second single from Swift’s blockbuster 1989 album, “Blank Space” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014. “Blank Space” is the longest running number 1 single from the winner of 11 Grammy Awards with seven weeks at the top of the chart. The song also earned three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance. Although “Black Space” lost all its nominations, the corresponding album 1989 won the coveted album of the year as well as best pop vocal album at the 2016 ceremony.
The Joseph Kahn-directed music video for “Blank Space,” meanwhile, won Best Female Video and Best Pop Video at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. only second 1989 video to cross 3 billion views on YouTube; these two clips are the two most-watched music videos of Swift’s career.
Earlier this year, Swift released “This Love (Taylor’s Version)”, further fueling speculation that 1989 would be his next album to receive the re-recording treatment. The updated version of “This Love” reached No. 50 on the Hot 100, surpassing the success of the original, which failed to enter the chart. “This love” is the second 1989 piece of which the pop star released a re-recording. The Grammy-winning superstar unveiled “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” in September 2021 after it went viral on TikTok.
Although there has still been no official word on 1989 (Taylor’s version), the 32-year-old singer has kept fans engaged with recent releases like “Carolina,” the original song she wrote and recorded for Where the Crawdads singand “The Joker and the Queen”, a reworked duet version of Ed Sheeran’s fourth single = album. Both of these singles entered the Hot 100, reaching No. 21 and No. 60 respectively.
Revisit the video for “Blank Space” below.
