As predicted last week, Opalite is #1 on the Hot 100 this week, giving Taylor Swift her 14th #1 single. How did she achieve this? It definitely wasn’t by stockpiling eight CD and vinyl pre-orders of Opalite for four weeks, changing the various ship dates, and then shipping all of those physical orders the same week that she dropped digital versions of four of those variants!
According to Billboard, 144k physical copies of Opalite were sold/shipped last week (aka all the CDs and vinyl variants for Opalite) with an additional 24k in digital sales. In comparison, total sales for Opalite the previous week were 7k (the week before that, Opalite sales were 2k and the week before that, they were 1.5k).
1. album version & instrumental version CD single (1/21 – 48 hours)
2. Life Is a Song acoustic version & acoustic instrumental version CD single (1/21 – 48 hours)
3. album version & Life Is a Song acoustic version – blue pearlescent 7” vinyl single (2/4 – 48 hours), (re-released 2/15 – 10 hours
4. Life Is a Song acoustic version digital single (2/10)
5. Chris Lake remix CD single (2/13 – 48 hours)
6. BUNT. remix CD single (2/13 – 48 hours)
7. Skream remix CD single (2/13 – 48 hours)
8. Ely Oaks remix CD single (2/13 – 48 hours)
9. Chris Lake remix digital single (2/16)
10. BUNT. remix digital single (2/17)
11. Skream remix digital single (2/17)
12. Ely Oakes remix digital single (2/17)
This is the second single from The Life of a Showgirl to hit #1. This is the first time Taylor has had an album with multiple #1 songs since her 2014 album 1989 which produced Shake It Off, Blank Space, and Bad Blood.
She is now tied for the third most #1 singles. Other artists with multiple #1 singles:
20 #1 singles – the Beatles
19 – Mariah Carey
14 – Rihanna
13 – Drake
13 – Michael Jackson
12 – Madonna
12 – the Supremes
11 – Whitney Houston
10 – Janet Jackson
10 – Stevie Wonder
Taylor’s other #1 singles: [Spoiler (click to open)]
1. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (#1 for 3 weeks in 2012)
2. Shake It Off (4 weeks in 2014)
3. Blank Space (7 weeks in 2014-15)
4. Bad Blood (1 week in 2015)
5. Look What You Made Me Do (3 weeks in 2017)
6. Cardigan (1 week in 2020)
7. Willow (1 week in 2020)
8. All Too Well (Taylor’s version) (1 week in 2021)
9. Anti-Hero (8 weeks in 2022)
10. Cruel Summer (2 weeks in 2023)
11. Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s version) [From the Vault] (1 week in 2023)
12. Fortnight (2 weeks in 2024)
13. The Fate of Ophelia (10 weeks in 2025-26)
Opalite marks Max Martin’s 29th #1 song as a songwriter on the Hot 100 and his 27th as a producer. The only songwriter with more #1 songs is Paul McCartney with 32.
Max Martin’s other #1 songs: [Spoiler (click to open)]
1. …Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
2. It’s Gonna Be Me – NSYNC
3. I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry
4. So What – Pink
5. My Life Would Suck Without You – Kelly Clarkson
6. 3 – Britney Spears
7. California Gurls – Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg
8. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
9. Raise Your Glass – Pink
10. Hold It Against Me – Britney Spears
11. E.T. – Katy Perry & Kanye West
12. Last Friday Night (TGIF) – Katy Perry
13. Part of Me – Katy Perry
14. One More Night – Maroon 5
15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift
16. Roar – Katy Perry
17. Dark Horse – Katy Perry
18. Shake It Off – Taylor Swift
19. Blank Space – Taylor Swift
20. Bad Blood – Taylor Swift & Kendrick Lamar
21. Can’t Feel My Face – The Weeknd
22. Can’t Stop the Feeling – Justin Timberlake
23. Blinding Lights – The Weeknd
24. Save Your Tears – The Weeknd & Ariana Grande
25. My Universe – Coldplay & BTS
26. Yes, And? – Ariana Grande
27. We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love) – Ariana Grande
28. The Fate of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
The rest of this week’s top 10:
1. Opalite – Taylor Swift
2. Choosin’ Texas – Ella Langley
3. Man I Need – Olivia Dean
4. DtMF – Bad Bunny
5. Ordinary – Alex Warren
6. I Just Might – Bruno Mars
7. Golden – HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami)
8. The Fate of Ophelia – Taylor Swift
9. Tití Me Preguntó – Bad Bunny
10. Baile Inolvidable – Bad Bunny
But the good news is that Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is #1 this week!
He also has several other songs still on the Hot 100:
12. Nuevayol
16. EoO
30. Voy A Llevarte Pa’ PR
48. La Canción
55. Mónaco
63. Qué Pasaría…
83. Veldá
84. Dakiti
86. Café Con Ron
