Taylor Swift sets Hot 100 chart records
11/05/2010 01:58:00 AM
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Taylor Swift‘s amazing week just keeps getting better. The latest edition of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart features an incredible 11 appearances from Swift, all songs from her new album, Speak Now. This is a record on three counts.First: Swift is the only female artist to have that many songs on the Hot 100 at once. Her only competition, per Billboard, comes from David Cook, who also notched 11 charting singles right after he won American Idol in May 2008, and the Beatles, who had 12 songs on the Hot 100 for two weeks in April 1964 and 14 charting songs for another week in the same month.
Second: The Beatles’ charting singles came from multiple projects (Please Please Me, With the Beatles, and the soon-to-be-released A Hard Day’s Night). Cook’s were individually sold tunes that he had sung on Idol. This makes Swift the first artist ever to have this many simultaneously charting singles all drawn from a single album.
Third: Cook didn’t write his Idol songs, and the Beatles’ record-setting weeks included a number of covers like “Twist and Shout” and “Roll Over Beethoven.” Swift famously wrote all the songs on Speak Now by herself. So she’s also the only artist to have this many Hot 100 appearances all of which were written by the artist in question.
Ke$ha tops Billboard singles chart, while Willow Smith makes a big debut
Far East Movement’s “Like a G6″ has landed on an unfamiliar runway this week. After a few weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, it’s been knocked to No. 2 by Ke$ha‘s “We R Who We R,” which debuts huge at the top spot. In turn, Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are” also steps back one spot to No. 3. Aside from Flo Rida’s “Club Can’t Handle Me” falling from No. 9 to No. 12, the rest of the top 10 is filled with those who comfortably sat there last week. There are some interesting happenings just outside of it, though.
Willow Smith’s debut single “Whip My Hair” debuts at No. 11, which is huge for someone just taking their first crack at this. And Taylor Swift’s remarkable week continues. Her highest charting track may only be “Sparks Fly” at No. 17. But she has 10 other singles in the Hot 100 as well–all from her Speak Now. Check out the entire top 10 list below.
1. Ke$ha, “We R Who We R”
2. Far East Movement, “Like a G6″
3. Bruno Mars, “Just the Way You Are”
4. Rihanna, “Only Girl (In The World)”
5. Nelly, “Just A Dream.”
6. Usher, “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”
7. Trey Songz “Bottoms Up”
8. Katy Perry, “Teenage Dream”
9. Taio Cruz, “Dynamite”
10. Pink, “Raise Your Glass”
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