{"id":4716,"date":"2025-10-21T02:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:33:12","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-fate-of-ophelia-tops-billboard-hot-100-for-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4716","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019 Tops Billboard Hot 100 for Second\u00a0Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>A week after claiming the top 12 spots\u00a0\u2014 all from her new album,\u00a0<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Swift still holds eight of the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0monopolized the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/taylor-swift-hot-100-fate-of-ophelia-number-one\/\">top 12<\/a>\u00a0spots on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 all from her new album,\u00a0<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the superstar now scores eight of the top 10, while all 12 songs from the set rank in the chart\u2019s top 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift\u2019s Hot 100 haul is led by \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d at No. 1 for a second week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album adds a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-showgirl-second-week-number-one-billboard-200-1236092614\/\">second week at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>, following its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-number-one-billboard-200\/\">modern-era-record<\/a>&nbsp;debut with 4.002 million equivalent album units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week marks the fifth in the Hot 100\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-co-creator-seymour-stein-interview\/\">history<\/a>\u00a0in which an act claims at least 12 of the top 14 places \u2014 and the first via a set\u2019s second week of release. The four prior such frames, with three belonging to Swift, reflected albums\u2019 debut chart weeks: Before\u00a0<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u2019s performance a week ago, she charted the top 14 thanks to her album\u00a0<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/taylor-swift-hot-100-top-14-fortnight-post-malone-record\/\">May 2024<\/a>\u00a0and filled the top 10, and 12 of the top 14, from\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-all-hot-100-top-10-anti-hero-1235163664\/\">November 2022<\/a>, while Drake amassed 12 of the top 14 the week that his\u00a0<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0debuted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/drake-hot-100-history-way-2-sexy-number-one\/\">September 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ko70cExuzZM?si=EjLTrKUjng2d3Rbg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are more highlights of Swift\u2019s latest triumphant week on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Oct. 25, 2025) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow, Oct. 21. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4716\" data-postid=\"4716\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4716 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after claiming the top 12 spots\u00a0\u2014 all from her new album,\u00a0The Life of a Showgirl\u00a0\u2014 Swift still holds eight of the top 10. 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