The mega American pop star Taylor Swift became on Monday, with her latest opus Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), the female artist with the most number 1 albums in sales, dethroning Barbra Streisand. In total, the 33-year-old singer has placed twelve albums at the top of the Billboard, reference ranking, according to the organization’s website. She is also “the first woman and the first living solo artist” to have 11 albums simultaneously in the top 200 of this ranking since August 1963, according to Billboard. The absolute record belongs to Prince (19 albums), in the ranking dated May 14, 2016, shortly after his death (April 21, 2016). Taylor Swift achieves this performance with a re-recorded version of her third album Speak Now, released in 2010.
Since 2019, the artist has indeed taken to the public square his fight to recover the ownership of the recordings of his first six albums, after the takeover of his former record company, Big Machine, by the magnate of the music industry Scooter Braun. For this, she simply decided to re-record new versions: after Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the third in a series of six. The original version is still in the Billboard 200, ranked 67th.
Mega star in the United States and around the world, Taylor Swift is used to records: in October 2022, after the release of her album Midnights, she had managed to place all her songs in the first 10 places of the Billboard Hot 100. With Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) at the top of the Billboard 200, Taylor Swift has six albums in the top 20, nine in the Top 40 and 10 in the top 100.
