{"id":391129,"date":"2026-01-06T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391129\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:58:14","slug":"taylor-swift-the-fate-of-ophelia-passes-anti-hero-as-longest-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391129\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Passes ‘Anti-Hero’ as Longest No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Life of a Showgirl single returns to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d has dethroned \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d as Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s longest-running Number One single. The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> single returns to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week. \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d previously spent eight weeks at Number One and 53 total weeks on the chart.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d slipped out of the Top 10 and down to Number 28 at the onset of the holiday streaming rush, but returns alongside \u201cOpalite,\u201d which moves from Number 54 to Number Eight. Swift has another entry on the chart with \u201cElizabeth Taylor.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Life of a Showgirl has spent 12 weeks at Number One on the Billboard 200, but is still six weeks away from breaking the career record set with The Tortured Poets Department, which remains in the top 50 after 88 weeks. Midnights, Folklore, 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version), Lover, Evermore, Red (Taylor\u2019s Version), and Reputation also remain on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tIn November, Swift shared \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia (The Chainsmokers Remix).\u201d<\/a> The DJ duo celebrated the release, commenting on Instagram, \u201cThis is truly an honor. we love u T.\u201d Swift has also released the \u201cLoud Luxury Remix\u201d and \u201cAlone in my Tower Acoustic Version\u201d renditions of the song.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn December, Rolling Stone named \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d one of the best songs of 2025,<\/a> writing, \u201c\u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2019 is Taylor\u2019s biggest Swiftspearean drama since \u2018Love Story,\u2019 rewriting Hamlet the way her teenage self rewrote Romeo and Juliet. Just as she did in \u2018Love Story,\u2019 she goes back in time to rescue a tragic young heroine and give her a new story \u2014 except instead of country twang, she goes for thrillingly exuberant synth-pop. Your English teacher took this Bardcore romance to Number One for seven weeks (and counting) \u2014 that\u2019s just her way of keeping it one hundred on the land, the sea, the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Life of a Showgirl single returns to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,7223],"class_list":{"0":"post-391129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}