The singer managed to surpass the most accumulated weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 of all time
Taylor Swift surpassed an old Beatles record by surpassing the most weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. The English rock band’s position had remained unchanged for 60 years, but the pop artist managed to update the dispute.
The new record of the singer, the artist who remained in the TOP 10 of the album charts for the longest time, is 384 weeks, one more than the Beatles.
In this decade alone, Taylor released seven albums, including re-recordings. Two more will probably arrive by the end of 2024. Each of them reached 1st place. This productivity has led her to chart several albums in the Top 10 simultaneously. In Billboard’s latest update, for example, she has three albums at the top: “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”, “Lovers” and “Midnights”.
Bigger than the Beatles and Elvis
Beatles fans get angry when Taylor Swift is compared to the band, and the comparison is sometimes exaggerated. But even the most diehard critics now have to bow to the facts.
Taylor also surpassed Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most weeks at No. 1 of all time. The record was broken earlier this year, when the singer completed 68 weeks, leaving behind the feat of the King of Rock, who spent 67 weeks with 10 albums at the top, between 1956 and 2002.
He is still behind the Beatles in terms of number of weeks at No. 1. The English band holds the record with 132 weeks in 19 albums, between 1964 and 2001. But Taylor is only 34 years old and is expected to surpass that record in this decade.
Source: Terra
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