{"id":229692,"date":"2026-01-12T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:26:22","slug":"11-years-of-no-1-hits-taylor-swift-breaks-tie-with-beyonce-madonna-to-join-mariah-carey-in-hot-100-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229692\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Years of No.1 Hits: Taylor Swift Breaks Tie with Beyonce &#038; Madonna to Join Mariah Carey in Hot 100 History Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/01\/11-years-of-no-1-hits-taylor-swift-breaks-tie-with-beyonce-madonna-to-join-mariah-carey-in-hot-100-history-books\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/years-no-1-hits-hot-100-thatgrapejuice-mariah-carey-beyonce-taylor-swift-madonna-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the holiday rush in Billboard\u2019s rearview, it came as no surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s longtime Hot 100 champion \u2013 \u2018The Fate of Ophelia\u2018 \u2013 returned to the tally\u2019s perch this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And while the feat was accompanied with news of a personal milestone for Swift as \u2018Ophelia\u2019 now marks her <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/01\/hot-100-taylor-swifts-the-fate-of-ophelia-becomes-her-longest-running-1-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">longest-reigning #1 hit<\/a> to date, its reclamation of the top spot also quietly pushed the Pop diva into Billboard history books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Ophelia,\u2019 the first single from Taylor\u2019s history-making last album \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/10\/official-taylor-swift-crushes-adeles-billboard-200-record-as-life-of-showgirl-sells-4-million-first-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Life of a Showgirl<\/a>,\u2019 is the current champion of the Hot 100 and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 is the first chart-topper of 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By claiming the title, the Max Martin-produced bop marks Swift\u2019s 11th non-consecutive career year of having a #1 smash on the hitlist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, Taylor \u2013 since the first time she landed on the Hot 100\u2019s pole position with 2012\u2019s \u2018We Are Never Getting Back Together\u2018 \u2013 has occupied the top spot at least one time in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only other artists who can boast a 10-year run of toppers over the all-genre chart\u2019s 67-year history are <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/beyonce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonce<\/a>, King of Pop Michael Jackson, Queen of Pop <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/madonna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>, and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/01\/11-years-of-no-1-hits-taylor-swift-breaks-tie-with-beyonce-madonna-to-join-mariah-carey-in-hot-100-history-books\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mariah-carey-thatgrapejuice-2025-all-want-christmas-hot-100-records-historic-22-weeks-600x320.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With her 11-year milestone, Swift joins <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/mariah-carey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a> as the only artists to have amassed more than 10 years of chart-topping under their belts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to her perennial hit \u2018All I Want for Christmas Is You,\u2019 Carey reigns as the overall chart-champion with a whopping 22 distinct years of seeing her name printed at #1 on the Hot 100 (1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008, 2019-26).<\/p>\n<p>[photo sources: Getty Images \/ PAPER Magazine]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the holiday rush in Billboard\u2019s rearview, it came as no surprise that Taylor Swift\u2018s longtime Hot 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