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Top Billboard 200 Artists (Female): 2008 — Alicia Keys 2009 — @taylorswift13 2010 — @taylorswift13 2011 — @Adele 2012 — @Adele 2013 — @taylorswift13 2014 — @taylorswift13 2015 — @taylorswift13 2016 — @Adele 2017 — @Adele 2018 — @taylorswift13

Don’t dilute Taylor’s records like that ever again. Taylor *simultaneously* occupied the ENTIRE top 10 with Midnights, the ENTIRE top 12 with Showgirl, and the ENTIRE top 14 with TTPD. All her songs had to PUSH OUT the #1 song *completely* out of the Top 10. All her songs had to do 330+ points. Each. Even the “lowest” song had to be THAT big. This right here is different. Let’s not blur the lines between ACTUAL, historic records (Taylor’s) vs. khia records with all these qualifiers and bends and caveats and extrapolations. To give a perspective, an artist can, in separate months, scatter-release ten or more mini/moderate-hit songs all merely reaching a cute #10, and they would snatch this so-called “record”. On the other hand, Taylor sweeping the *entire* Top 10 (and more) *simultaneously* is a league of its own, and it’s a reflection of people’s obsession with group project-izing everything with Taylor that something this obvious even has to be emphasized. Break the *actual* record or not. It really is just that simple.

The way we’ve BEEN saying this from the very beginning and some publications used to make swifties look “crazy”, only to be proven right years later 😭

Biggest song debuts in Global Spotify history: #1. The Fate of Ophelia 30.98M #2. Fortnight 25.2M #3. Elizabeth Taylor 23.97M #4. Opalite 23.71M #5. Father Figure 21.80M #6. Eldest Daughter 19.96M #7. Actually Romantic 19.39M #8. The Tortured Poets Department 19.08M #9. Wood 19.01M #10. CANCELLED! 18.83M #11. Wi$h Li$t 18.80M #12. Ruin The Friendship 18.75M #13. The Life of a Showgirl 18.73M #14. Down Bad 17.4M #15. Anti-Hero 17.4M #16. So Long London 17.2M #17. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 17.1M #18. Lavender Haze 16.4M #19. Honey 15.9955M #20. Seven 15.9954M #21. But Daddy I Love Him 15.5M #22. Snow On the Beach 15M #23. SWIM 14.6M #24. Florida!!! 14.5M #25. Maroon 14.4M #26. Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 14.4M #27. I Had Some Help 13.95M #28. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 13.7M #29. Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? 13M #30. You’re On Your Own, Kid 12.8M #31. Fresh Out the Slammer 12.75M #32. Guilty As Sin? 12.7M #33. Midnight Rain 12.6M #34. Aperture 12.48M #35. MONACO 12.45M #36. Girls Want Girls 12.4M #37. loml 12.08M #38. Vigilante Shit 11.88M #39. Moscow Mule 11.75M #40. Champagne Poetry 11.7M #41. Style (Taylor’s Version) 11.67M #42. Fair Trade 11.64M #43. Question…? 11.56M #44. Slut! 11.31M #45. yes, and? 11.2M #46. Body To Body 11.19M #47. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) 11.1M #48. Butter 11.04M #49. I Don’t Care 10.98M #50. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived 10.82M #51. LUNCH 10.79M #52. Karma 10.78M #53. drop dead 10.71M [NEW]

📈 | With only 11 hours of the MV counting toward the tracking day, Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” catapults to #2 on Global Spotify — ascending 37 spots with a whopping 6.21M streams (Feb. 6). It surpasses her billion-streamer mega-hit “The Fate of Ophelia” for the first time ever.

@PopTingz So much d*mbassery for a “news account” lol it’s “insane” (as if it wasn’t Billboard/YouTube’s fault) BECAUSE your faves aren’t the ones who thought it first 💀 But watch it become the STANDARD for mainstream artists. Taylor is blazing the trail, and y’all simply have to follow.

Is it safe to say this is Taylor’s biggest chart achievement to date? No, scratch that—is it safe to say this is the biggest chart achievement of ANY artist ever? 2.7M pure sales (US) during first day of release??? I can’t even fathom how ASTRONOMICAL and unprecedented this is.

@avid_original You think we’re d*mb? Y’all really took the time to create a setup account and post racist stuff just to drag swifties? You’re really THAT desperate? Is racism a joke to you? 💀 Here’s ExpertMatriss dragging Taylor, and here’s YOU positively interacting. GOOD LUCK denying this:

There's no fandom that's more racist than the Swifties

#1 best selling artist worldwide each year (via IFPI): 2013: @onedirection 2014: @taylorswift13 2015: @Adele 2016: @Drake 2017: @edsheeran 2018: @Drake 2019: @taylorswift13 2020: @BTS_twt 2021: @BTS_twt 2022: @taylorswift13

#1 best-selling artists of 2022 (via IFPI): 1. Taylor Swift 2. BTS 3. Drake 4. Bad Bunny 5. The Weeknd 6. SEVENTEEN 7. Stray Kids 8. Harry Styles 9. Jay Chou 10. Ed Sheeran

Daily Top Artists Global (Spotify, 1/18/23): 1. Taylor Swift 5. SZA 6. Miley Cyrus 7. Shakira 22. Billie Eilish 23. Rihanna 24. Lana Del Rey 29. Ariana Grande 33. Lady Gaga 35. Dua Lipa 45. Doja Cat 49. Adele 53. Beyoncé 55. KAROL G 60. Selena Gomez 78. Bebe Rexha 79. Katy Perry

Biggest non-holiday streaming peaks in Global Spotify history: 1. Easy On Me — 19.75M 2. Anti-Hero — 17.39M 3. Flowers — 17.38M 4. Lavender Haze — 16.42M 5. As It Was — 16.10M 6. Snow On The Beach — 15.03M 7. Maroon — 14.42M 8. Shakira BZRP — 14.39M 9. drivers license — 13.71M

Taylor Swift — both the most-streamed and the highest-grossing female artist in history — sets a new record for the biggest sales year of the CENTURY, shifting nearly 23 million album units in 2022 alone, previously held by the legendary Michael Jackson (over 21M albums in 2009).

Biggest album streams in Spotify history: Day 1 — Midnights Day 2 — Midnights Day 3 — Midnights Day 4 — Midnights Day 5 — Midnights Day 6 — Midnights Day 7 — Midnights Day 8 — Midnights Day 9 — Un Verano Sin Ti Day 10 — UVST/Midnights (55M+)

Top artists of the week on Spotify: 2. Taylor Swift 14. Billie Eilish 19. Ariana Grande 20. Dua Lipa 25. Doja Cat 26. Beyoncé 30. Lana Del Rey 31. Rihanna 34. KAROL G 42. ROSALÍA 47. Lady Gaga 51. Adele 52. Nicki Minaj 55. Kim Petras 58. Shakira 60. Olivia Rodrigo 65. Katy Perry

Top streamed solo female albums on Spotify last week: 1. SOUR, Olivia Rodrigo 2. RENAISSANCE, Beyoncé 3. Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa 4. MOTOMAMI, ROSALÍA 5. Planet Her, Doja Cat 6. folklore, TS 7. Queen Radio v1, Nicki Minaj 8. 1989, TS 9. Red (Taylor's Version), TS 10. Lover, TS

@TysonKnight_ Chartmasters lack in several areas, but despite that, it is nonetheless much more credible than Vogue when it comes to music stats.

Biggest female artists of all time: 1. Madonna — 246.2M 2. Celine Dion — 198.1M 3. Mariah Carey — 175.0M 4. Whitney Houston — 157.4M 5. Barbra Streisand — 153.4M 6. Taylor Swift — 125.8M 7. Britney Spears — 111.6M 8. Rihanna — 102.8M 9. Adele — 102.6M 10. Beyoncé (solo) — 91.3M

@SuziTrans @chartqata 1. Streaming platforms have safeguards to filter streams done consecutively, so you can rule that out. 2. Assuming a 1:1500 ratio, a person needs to listen to 1500 songs before amounting to 1 album copy. 1500 (non-spam) streams would take months — and time IS an asset/has value.

@SuziTrans @chartqata Again, it's generally based on the actual revenue. If the revenue of a stream is 1/5000 of an album, then sure. But it's not. In reality, it's much closer to the 1/1500 ratio. These ratios in the formulas are not arbitrary/something that they pull out of thin air like you want.

@JosephFanai10 You're not supposed to simply combine album units and song units using 1:1 ratio because 1 album costs much more than 1 song. The formulas (the proper ones) are generally revenue-based.