2023-07-18 09:56:51
At only 33 years old, the American pop star explodes a new record and dethrones the defending champion, Barba Streisand.
Taylor Swift dethrones Barba Streisand. With the release of his latest album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)the American pop superstar became the female artist with the most number 1 albums on Monday, just ahead of the singer of Women in Love.
Twelve albums at the top of the Billboard
In total, the 33-year-old singer has placed twelve albums at the top of the Billboard, the benchmark ranking, according to the organization’s website. She is too “the first woman – and the first living solo artist” to have 11 records simultaneously in the top 200 of this ranking since August 1963, according to Billboard.
The absolute record is held by Prince (19 albums), in the ranking dated May 14, 2016, obtained shortly after his death (April 21, 2016).
Taylor Swift achieves this performance with a re-recorded version of her third album Speak Nowreleased in 2010. Among the most famous titles of this disc, Back to December, Mine, The Story of Us. Since 2019, the artist has indeed taken to the public square his fight to recover the ownership of the recordings of his first six albums, after the takeover of his former record company, Big Machine, by the magnate of the music industry Scooter. Brown in 2020.
New version of discs
To do this, she simply decided to re-record new versions: after the discs Fearless (Taylor’s Version) et Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the third in a series of six. The original version is still in the Billboard 200, ranked 67th.
Mega star in the United States and around the world, Taylor Swift is used to records: in October 2022, after the release of her album Midnightsshe had managed to place all her songs in the first ten places of the Billboard Hot 100. A first since the launch of the Billboard.
With Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) at the top of the Billboard 200, the interpreter of Blank Space has six top 20, nine top 40 and ten top 100 albums.
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