by Taylor Swift Midnights continues to reign atop Billboard’s Best-Selling Albums chart, as the album spends its 12th consecutive (and total) week at No. 1 on the list dated January 21. The album sold 25,000 copies in the United States in the week ending January 12 according to Luminate.
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Midnights now has the most weeks at No. 1 on the album bestseller chart since the Frozen the soundtrack sat at No. 1 for 13 non-consecutive weeks in 2014. Midnights has the most consecutive weeks at No. 1 since the Titanic the soundtrack recorded its 16 consecutive No. 1 weeks in 1998.
Earlier this week, it was announced that “Anti-Hero” once again landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart, registering an eighth week overall at the top. With her final run at No. 1, Swift overhauled her longest Hot 100 reign, surpassing seven weeks at the top for “Blank Space” in 2014-15.
“Anti-hero” quickly became an all-time cut in Taylor Swift’s discography. Recently, the song became the #1 song on US radio stations, making Swift the first artist to land at the top of Billboard’s radio song charts in the 2000s, 10s and 20s.
Swift got her seventh Top Radio Songsendearing Maroon 5, Katy Perryand Usher for the fourth-most No. 1s dating back to the start of the rankings in December 1990. Rihanna leads with 13, followed by Mariah Carey (11) and Bruno Mars (nine).
Earlier in December, Extended Taylor her record-breaking performance in 2022 with the debut of her tenth studio album Midnights October 21, released on Republic Records/Universal Music Group. In just eight weeks, Midnights achieved over six million album-equivalent units worldwide, three million in the United States alone, and cemented her in music history as the only artist to ever have five albums with more of one million units during the week of release. The hit release moved nearly 1.6 million in its first week. Midnights is the first album to sell over one million physical albums since 2015.
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