Taylor Swift rockets onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1 with "Shake It Off." As expected, her new self-empowerment anthem debuts at the top following its first week of availability.
The explosion of "Shake" also spurs Swift to vault to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (which measures song and album sales, radio airplay, streaming and social activity), up from No. 69 last week. (A deeper story covering the latest Artist 100 to follow on Billboard.com.)
The lead single from Swift's Oct. 27 Big Machine Records album 1989 soars in at the Hot 100's summit fueled by a combination of immense sales, radio airplay and streaming (the chart's three measurement components). Swift released the song for digital purchase and to radio, and premiered its official video, last Monday (Aug. 18, just after 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET), the same day that she hosted a Yahoo! live stream announcing the new set's release.
"Shake" marks Swift's second Hot 100 No. 1, following 2012's three-week leader "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," the first single from her last album, Red.
As "Shake" enters at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" makes its own headlines, hurdling 39-2 following the premiere of its racy video. Meanwhile, the chart's top song for the past six weeks, MAGIC!'s "Rude," tumbles to No. 5.
As we do each Wednesday (the day that the Hot 100 is compiled each week), let's look at the numbers behind the top 10, including Swift's swift ascent to No. 1 this week.
Below Swift's new Hot 100 leader, Minaj's jump from No. 39 to No. 2, with top Digital and Streaming Gainer honors, marks the chart's other major news.
Following the release of its video on Aug. 19, "Anaconda" makes a 42-1 lunge on Streaming Songs with a 1,287 percent surge to 32.1 million streams; 95 percent of its total is from Vevo on YouTube. The overall sum is the highest since Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" drew 36.4 million streams (Sept. 28, 2013) following the first full week after its video premiered. The greatest streaming total since the chart launched on March 2, 2013, and the only other song (in addition to "Wrecking Ball") to tally more weekly streams than "Anaconda": Baauer's "Shake" peaked with 103 million (powered heavily by user-generated clips featuring the song's audio) the week that the survey debuted.
The "Anaconda" video, and her performance at the VMAs, spurs a 24-6 leap for the cut on Digital Songs (120,000, up 132 percent). The track is slithering toward Radio Songs, primed to pounce in with 25 million (up 33 percent).
With the 39-2 ascent of "Anaconda," Minaj snares her highest Hot 100 rank. The song passes the No. 3 peaks of two 2011 hits: her own "Super Bass" and her featured turn on Spears' "Till the World Ends."
"Anaconda" is Minaj's 11th Hot 100 top 10, extending her record among female rappers. Missy Elliott ranks second with nine.
Meanwhile, the 39-2 ascent for "Anaconda" marks the second-biggest jump ever within the Hot 100's top 40. Only the Black Eyed Peas made a loftier leap in the region when "Boom Boom Pow" blasted 39-1 on April 18, 2009.
On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Anaconda" becomes Minaj's third No. 1 (10-1). It's her third No. 1 on Rap Songs (4-1), where it dethrones Azalea's "Fancy," featuring Grande, after a record-tying 18-week reign. (Elliott's "Hot Boyz," featuring Nas, Eve and Q-Tip, reigned for 18 weeks in 1999-2000). On the Hot 100, "Fancy" falls out of the top 10 (5-11). The collab spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and remains the only title to have led Billboard's Songs of the Summer chart this year; one week remains in the survey's tracking period before the season's final rankings are revealed.
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