“Taylor rises swiftly to the top with 11 Billboard hits” |
| Taylor rises swiftly to the top with 11 Billboard hits Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:06 PM PDT  Celotto/Getty Taylor Swift has become the first-ever artist to have eleven charting original singles from one album at the young age of 20.Taylor Swift spoke now, and people listened in a big, big way. The country singer, 20, already sent shockwaves through the music world this past week when her album "Speak Now" sold a million copies in one week (the first record to do so since Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" back in '08). But the good news didn't stop there for Swift: she has 11 songs charting on Billboard's Hot 100 this week. According to Billboard, the songs rank as such: "Sparks Fly" at No. 17; "Mine" at #21 (dropping from No. 3); "Innocent" at #27; "The Story of Us" at #41; "Dear John" at 54; "Better Than Revenge" at No. 56; "Haunted" at 63; "Last Kiss" at 71;"Enchanted" at No. 75; "Never Grow Up" at 84; "Long Live" at 85. The industry mag also reports that, counting the advance charting of lead singles "Mine," "Speak Now," and "Mean," all fourteen of the songs on Swift's album have broken the Hot 100. But there's still more good news. According to EW.com, only two other artists have ever had 11 or more singles chart at one time: The Beatles and "American Idol" champ David Cook. But the site reports that, since The Beatles' songs featured some covers and were from multiple albums, and since Cook's were individually sold covers of other artists he'd sang on "Idol," Swift is the first singer ever to have eleven charting singles from the same album that were all written by the artist in question. "I... Can't... Believe... This... You guys have absolutely lit up my world," Swift tweeted on Wednesday, after news broke that "Speak Now" had sold a million copies. "Thank you." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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