Taylor Swift Absolutely Dominates Aussie Singles Chart With ‘Midnights’

The tenth Taylor Swift studio album Midnights sees all thirteen tracks from the standard edition debut within the Top 14 places this week, with lead single Anti-Hero taking the #1 slot.

Anti-Hero (Republic) becomes the 1120th #1 Single in Australia (1940 to 2022), the 555th for ARIA (1983 to 2022), the 136th song to debut at the top and the 14th #1 song for 2022, while for Taylor Swift this now becomes her ninth chart-topping single in Australia and her fifth to debut in the #1 position. Plus the song has topped the charts in England, Ireland and New Zealand (so far).

Taylor first hit #1 on March 23rd, 2009 with Love Story, logging a second week at the top with that track on April 6th, after which she took over four years to make it to #1 again in Australia, doing so with Shake it Off (3 weeks from Sept. 1st, 2014) and then in the same year with Blank Space (3 weeks from Nov. 24th, 2014), while her Kendrick Lamar duet on Bad Blood (3 weeks from June 1st, 2015) became her fourth #1 locally. Her first #1 debut occurred with Look What You Made Me Do (2 weeks from Sept. 4th, 2017), her last for the 2010s, while she has now placed a song at #1 in every year of this decade (so far), all spending a single week at the top; Cardigan (Aug. 3rd, 2020), Willow (Dec. 21st, 2020) and her last was with All Too Well (Taylor's Version) (Nov. 22nd, 2021).

This ninth #1 for Taylor in Australia makes her now the equal sixth act on the listing for 'Most #1 Singles (1940 to 2022)' alongside Delta Goodrem and P!nk, while for Solo Female Artist she sits at equal third; ahead of her are Rihanna and Kylie Minogue (10 each) and in the lead is Madonna (11 #1s). And with Swift now racking up her overall 17th week at #1 locally, she also moves up the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' to outright 42nd, just ahead of Britney Spears (17 weeks from 6 #1s), while another week at the top would place her just ahead of The Rolling Stones (18 weeks from 6 #1s).

This new #1 song is also the 18th chart-topper for the record label 'Republic' (through Universal) and their second for 2022, as Super Freaky Girl for Nicki Minaj was the other (Sept. 12th), while this is now the first time that the word 'Anti' has appeared in a #1 song title, it is now the fourth for the word 'Hero' after Paper Lace in June 1974 with Billy - Don't Be A Hero (8 weeks), Tina Turner's Mad Max 3 theme We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (3 weeks from Aug. 19th, 1985) and the last was Hero for Enrique Iglesias (2 weeks from Jan. 14th, 2002), plus this new #1 song also becomes the 717th by an American Artist (solo male of female, duo oir group) to make it to the top, and also the fifth for 2022 after Mariah Carey (Jan. 3rd), Jack Harlow (April 18th), Britney Spears and Bebe Rexha (both in September, 5th and 19th respectively).

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Taylor Swift is also the only act this decade to log four #1 singles, with only Justin Bieber, The Kid LAROI, Olivia Rodrigo and Elton John the only other artists with multiple #1s, all logging two apiece. Previously Taylor had racked up 26 Top 10 singles in Australia since 2009, and now with the remainder of her Midnights album's twelve tracks landing between #2 and #14, she has increased her Top 10 tally to now 34 in total, as nine of the ten tracks within the Top 10 all belong to Taylor, beating the record set by Harry Styles on May 30th when he logged eight tracks within the Top 10 and all 13 tracks within the Top 15 from his Harry's House album.

Taylor's last mass Top 10 influx occurred on August 3rd, 2020 with five songs landing within the ten, headed by her Cardigan track (16 within the Top 50) and then on Dec. 21st, 2020 she saw 14 songs within the Top 60 (headed by Willow at #1 and the only Top 10 entry). Then on April 19th, 2021 we saw nine songs enter within the Top 100, while her last mass injection was November 22nd, 2021 with 13 songs led by All Too Well. Her latest album Midnights was also issued with up to seven extra tracks, none of which have landed within the chart this week, and with streaming numbers they would've made up most of the Top 40 positions.

So the rest of the Top 10 for Taylor Swift looks like this; Lavender Haze at #2, her only duet on the album with Lana Del Ray is Snow On The Beach landing at #3, followed by Maroon at #4, Midnight Rain at #5 and You're On Your Own, Kid at #6. There is only one song to survive within the Top 10 this week, the recent four-week running (and new U.S. #1 song and stable Canadian chart-topper for a fourth week) Unholy for Sam Smith and Kim Petras, which slips down to #7. Her Cinderella-themed song Bejewelled debuts at #8, Karma unfolds at #9 and her Vigilante Shit slides in at #10.

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With such an influx of Swiftism this week, there is only one song that climbs within the entire Top 50, up one spot to a new peak of #44 is the Imagine Dragons track Bones, which saw a dance remix issued this past week by twocolours.

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The nine further songs from last week's Top 10 are all swept out this week by Taylor's mass incursion, all of them falling between ten to sixteen places down the chart, starting with Guetta's I'm Good (Blue) (2 to #15, WI10-7), OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried (3 to #16, WI10-15), Bad Habit by Steve Lacy (6 to #17, WI10-14), last week's massive rising track Miss You by Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz (4 to #18, WI10-1), B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) for Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal (5 to #19, WI10-6) and Under The Influence by Chris Brown (10 to #20, WI10-7). Falling from the Top 10 into the Top 30 are As It Was by Harry Styles (8 to #21, first-ever week outside of the Top 10, WI10-29), Cuff It by Beyonce (9 to #22, WI10-2) and Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj (7 to #23, WI10-10).

Twelve place drops occur for Sunroof (12 to #24), Heat Waves (13 to #25, leaving the Top 10 last week and now the Top 20 this week), Something in The Orange (15 to #27), I Like You (A Happier Song) (16 to #28), while Lizzo's 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) falls fifteen spots to #26. The new Dean Lewis track How Do I Say Goodbye has the smallest decline this week, down only four spots to #29 thanks to his upcoming album and tour, with that song rising to new peaks in England (35 to #31), Switzerland (#14) and Canada (57 to #56) while it holds at its peak in Ireland (#22) and remains within the Top 10 in Denmark (#7), The Netherlands (#6) and Norway (#5).

Elton's two entries both fall into the Top 40, with Hold Me Closer down seventeen spots to #31, while Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) falls fourteen places to #34. Lizzo's About Damn Time drops sixteen chart-rungs to #33 while the song is logging its half-year chart mark (26 weeks), LF System's Afraid To Feel and Ed Sheeran's Shivers both fall fourteen places each to #35 and #38 respectively, while Ed's Bad Habits drops thirteen spots to #40. Doja for Central Cee is the biggest drop within the Top 50, plummeting nineteen places to #37, while Doja's Vegas track and The Kind of Love We Make by Luke Combs both decline seventeen places to #45 and #43 respectively.

With Lewis Capaldi touring here soon, he only drops nine places this week to #39 with his latest single Forget Me, with small six places drops being for Romantic Homicide by d4vd to #47 and Levitating by Dua Lipa to #48. The only new certification within the Top 50 is Where Are You Now for Lost Frequencies with Calum Scott, down fourteen places to #46 and now 4x▲Platinum in sales, with the last big drop within the fifty being a sixteen places slide to #49 for First Class by Jack Harlow.