Taylor Swift makes history
Mariah Carey is the only other female with multiple top five debuts in a single year, opening at number 1 with both Fantasy and One Sweet Day, with Boyz II Men, in 1995.
Eminem has also placed two top five debuts on the Hot 100 this year as Lie opened at 2 and Not Afraid started in first on the May 22 chart. He is the first male artist to do so.
Mine, the first single from Swift's forthcoming album "Speak Now," opens at number 1 on Hot Digital Songs with 297,000 downloads in a partial sales week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song was released on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2 1/2 days into the tracking period. Swift's best debut sales week came from Today Was a Fairytale, which opened in February with 325,000. Swift has done better. Love Story sold 360,000 downloads in the post-Christmas week of 2008.
On the airplay side, Mine starts at 53 on Hot 100 Airplay with 23.9 million listener impressions, according to Nielsen BDS, with roughly 60 percent of that audience coming from country radio airplay and the rest from top 40 and adult outlets. On the country chart, Mine is 26th.
Kenny Chesney made a big jump on the list, rising 96-18 as first-week downloads (82,000). Chesney topped his own record for largest opening-week downloads by a male country artist previously set with Out Last Night (71,000) in June 2009.
More news for Taylor Swift
- 09/10/24: Swift endorses Harris
- 07/07/23: Swift, Rogers/Bowen, Marlowe, Watson, Ray release new music
- 01/31/23: Townes , The Reklaws, Swift score two Canadian awards nominations
- 11/01/22: Swift announces The Eras Tour dates
- 10/13/22: Swift tops American Music Awards nominations
- 08/28/22: Swift announces new disc
- 05/18/22: Swift receives PhD, urges grads to take chances
- 05/18/22: Taylor Swift's NYU commencement address
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