News November 23, 2021

Taylor Swift scores longest #1 in Hot 100 history with ‘All Too Well’

Taylor Swift is riding high on the success of her re-recorded version of 2012’s Red.

Red (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 with 605,0000 equivalent units shifted. A figure compounded of 369,000 pure purchases, 227,000 streaming equivalents, and 9,000 track sale equivalents. 26 tracks from the re-recorded release of her 2012 record appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 27).

The record is the second-largest debut on the Billboard 200 in 2021, following Drake’s Certified Lover Boy — which launched with 613,000 equivalent units.

With Red (Taylor’s Version), Swift emerges with the longest number one song of all time, with her ten-minute update on album centrepiece ‘All Too Well.’

The track, which marks Swift’s eighth #1 song, beat out a record previously held by Don McLean’s ‘American Pie,’ which runs just short of nine minutes long.

The original version of ‘All Too Well’, which was not conceived as a single upon its 2012 release, runs at five and a half minutes. The track initially peaked at No. 80 on the Hot 100 — in the years since its release, it’s become the crown jewel in the Taylor Swift discography.

Billboard combined the statistics for the newly recorded standard-length song, with totals for the extended version of the track ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault).’ The 10-minute version of the song accounted for a larger percentage of the song’s activity last week — 62% of streams and 78% of sales — qualifying it as the longest #1 hit of all time at 10 minutes and 13 seconds.

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Find all of Taylor Swift’s Hot 100 entries from the chart dated November 27 below:

Rank, Title
No. 1, ‘All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 18, ‘State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 22, ‘I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’ feat. Chris Stapleton
No. 25, ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 43, ‘Nothing New (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),’ feat. Phoebe Bridgers
No. 45, ‘Message in a Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’
No. 46, ‘I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 47, ‘Run (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),’ feat. Ed Sheeran
No. 51, ‘Better Man (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’
No. 52, ’22 (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 54, ‘Treacherous (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 55, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 59, ‘I Almost Do (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 61, ‘The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’
No. 63, ‘Everything Has Changed (Taylor’s Version),’ feat. Ed Sheeran
No. 66, ‘The Last Time (Taylor’s Version),’ feat. Gary Lightbody
No. 67, ‘Stay Stay Stay (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 69, ‘Babe (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’
No. 76, ‘Holy Ground (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 77, ‘Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 79, ‘Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)’
No. 83, ‘The Moment I Knew (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 84, ‘The Lucky One (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 85, ‘Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 87, ‘Come Back…Be Here (Taylor’s Version)’
No. 90, ‘Starlight (Taylor’s Version)’