After the Super Bowl fever, which ended with Bad Bunny leading the Billboard Hot 100 with the song ‘I should have shot more photos’, it is Taylor Swift’s turn. The singer’s new single, ‘Opalite’, climbs from number 8 to number 1.
This means that it is, therefore, the 14th number 1 for the singer on the official US singles chart. It is the 2nd of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’. Thus, the singer manages to tie at number 1 with Rihanna and is now only ahead of the Beatles and Mariah Carey. It is curious to remember that Taylor did not achieve any top 1 singles until her move to pop with ‘Red’:
Taylor Swift’s 14 number 1 hits in the US:
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Shake It Off
Blank Space
Bad Blood
Look What You Made Me Do
Cardigan
Willow
All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)
Anti-Hero
Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
Cruel Summer
Fortnight, ft Post Malone
The Fate of Ophelia
Opalite
The number 1 has occurred, like the one in the United Kingdom, due to the physical sales of the singles of ‘Opalite’. 168,000 copies of ‘Opalite’ have been sold in one week, which has been enough to alleviate the loss of streaming (from 11th place it falls to 17th place among the most listened to on platforms).
Billboard details that of those 168,000 copies that have been decisive, 144,000 have been physical (6 types of CD singles, and 1 vinyl) and 24,000 digital, especially due to the new remixes. Below these lines you can see which artists have achieved the greatest number of number 1s in the history of the United States.
Highest number of number 1s in the US:
20, The Beatles
19, Mariah Carey
14, Rihanna
14, Taylor Swift
13, Drake
13, Michael Jackson
12, Madonna
12, The Supremes
11, Whitney Houston
10, Janet Jackson
10, Bruno Mars
10, Stevie Wonder
