Taylor Swift has broken Elvis Presley’s record for most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart as a solo artist, setting a new record of 68 weeks.

Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” has reached No. 1 on the US album chart for the fifth time in the last week of 2023.

Although the 34-year-old singer currently holds the record as a solo artist and is in second place overall, she still has a long way to go to challenge the records of The Beatles, whose albums spent 132 weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart. .

Presley’s 67 weeks at No. 1 for albums from 1956 to 2002 place him second on the chart for a solo artist and third on the chart for all artists.

His longest No. 1 album was the Blue Hawaii soundtrack, which spent 20 weeks at the top in 1961-62. Four of his 10 No. 1 albums were soundtracks: “Loving You,” “GI Blues,” “Blue Hawaii.” ” and “Rustabu”.

Taylor Swift has several records”

Swift holds the record for the most albums to debut at No. 1 in a row with 13, a feat achieved thanks to her decision to quickly re-record and release all of her albums after her former manager Scooter Braun purchased her old label, Big Machine Records. , and subsequently the rights to all major recordings of his music.

Swift accused Brown of being a “relentless and manipulative bully,” which he denied. However, Swift re-recorded her first six albums so that Brown would not benefit financially from the royalties.

The first album no. Swift’s No. 1 was “Fearless,” which spent 11 weeks atop the album chart in 2008 and 2009. She followed this with “Speak Now”, which was No. 1 for six weeks in 2010-11); “Red” (seven weeks, 2012-13); “1989” (11 weeks, 2014-15); “Reputation” (four weeks, 2017-18); “Lover” (one week, 2019); “Folklore” (eight weeks, 2020-21); “Evermore” (four weeks, 2020-21); “Fearless (Taylor Version)” (two weeks, 2021); “Red (Taylor Version)” (one week, 2021); “Midnight” (six weeks, 2022-23); “Speak Now (Taylor Version)” (two weeks, 2023); and “1989 (Taylor Version)” (five weeks, 2023-24).

She is also the first living artist to have five albums in the Top 10 at the same time, a feat Prince only achieved after his death in 2016.

In July, Swift broke Barbra Streisand’s record for the most No. 1 albums in history with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).

The Beatles still hold the record for most #1 albums overall with 19, followed by Jay-Z with 14 and Swift with 13. Presley and Swift are currently tied. 1 in one year, both three times in one year – Presley in 1957 and 1961 and Swift in 2021 and 2023. (News.ro)