Taylor Swift hits No. 1, sets streaming record
— -- After 16 weeks, the "song of the summer" has been dethroned by "Look What You Made Me Do," the lead single from Taylor Swift's new album, "Reputation."
As Billboard notes, the song has jumped from No. 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 , where it initially debuted based on a few days of airplay, to No. 1.
This is Swift's fifth No. 1 on the Hot 100 and, believe it or not, she's the first woman to top the chart this year. What's more, "Look What You Made Me Do" is the first song by a woman without a male artist joining her to hit No. 1 since 2015, when Adele released "Hello."
The track has also scored the highest weekly sales of any song this year -- 353,000 copies -- and it has broken the record for the most weekly streams ever for a song by a female artist: 84.4 million, to be exact.
The previous record was held by -- you guessed it -- Adele's "Hello," which had nearly 62 million streams in November 2015.
"Look What You Made Me Do" also continues Swift's tradition of hitting No. 1 with the first single from each of her most recent albums. The first single from "Red" -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" -- topped the chart, as did the "1989" lead track, "Shake It Off."
Swift's chart-topper means "Despacito," by Latin superstar Luis Fonsi, has been stopped from setting the all-time record for the longest-running No. 1 hit. As the “song of the summer,” “Despacito" had just tied "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men: both reigned for 16 weeks. Now, "Despacito" has fallen to No. 2.
