It\u2019s the second song off The Life of a Showgirl to reach the top spot<\/p>\n
\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> has danced her way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 once again with \u201cOpalite.\u201d<\/a> It marks the pop superstar\u2019s 14th song to reach Number One. With the achievement, Swift ties Rihanna for the third-most Number One songs on the Hot 100, behind only the Beatles and Mariah Carey.<\/p>\n \n\tThe track debuted at Number Two on the Hot 100 when it was released as part of Swift\u2019s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/a>. Her lead single, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d<\/a> just came off a record-breaking run as her biggest hit, charting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and marking the star\u2019s longest-running feat. Now that \u201cOpalite\u201d has reached Number One as well, it\u2019s a defining moment in the legacy of her most divisive album<\/a> to date. The only other time Swift has secured two chart-topping songs on the same album was for 2014\u2019s 1989<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOpalite\u201d also reinforces Swift\u2019s unshakeable chart dominance. The song marks the singer\u2019s ninth one to top the chart this decade; she leads as the artist with the most for the 2020s. According to Luminate via Billboard<\/a>, the song drew 11.4 million official streams and sold 168,000 (up 2,290 percent) in the U.S. the week of Feb. 13-19. Its success comes after Swift released CD singles, remixes<\/a>, and vinyl versions of \u201cOpalite.\u201d Of the total sales, 144,000 were physical.<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this month, Swift shared a Nineties-throwback music video for the song. Notably, the pop superstar did not initially share the glittery visual on YouTube; instead, she chose to premiere the \u201cOpalite\u201d video on two of the largest streaming platforms exclusively: Spotify and Apple Music. The move coincides with YouTube\u2019s decision<\/a> to withdraw its data from Billboard charts following changes to the charts\u2019 methodology.\u00a0 Of course, neither music video for\u00a0The Life of a Showgirl\u00a0has had a traditional release. She premiered\u00a0\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in theaters across the country as part of the her album release\u00a0parties<\/a>\u00a0in October. A few days after its premiere, the \u201cOpalite\u201d video was available on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the second song off The Life of a Showgirl to reach the top spot Taylor Swift has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[105721,93,61,60,278,6543],"class_list":["post-313936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billboard-charts","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}