Taylor Swift has made history yet again with her latest song, which has turned out to be a somewhat unexpected hit. The pop superstar recently surprised her fans with new music to celebrate her upcoming The Eras Tour. Now, one of them has helped her prove her unprecedented popularity once more.
One of the tracks Swift released with just a few hours of warning, “All of the Girls You Loved Before,” debuts on the Hot 100 at No. 12, an impressive starting point considering it received little to no promotion.
The fact that Swift scores not just a new Hot 100 hit, but one in 2023 is noteworthy. Billboard reports that the superstar has now debuted at least one song on the Hot 100 each year since 2006, marking an impressive 18-year run. The magazine states that Swift now claims the longest active streak in Hot 100 history among all artists.
Swift first hit the Hot 100 in 2006 when she was just a teenager with her debut single “Tim McGraw.” The song found its way to the ranking, eventually peaking inside the top 40. Since then, she has not stopped, and she regularly sends dozens of cuts to the tally whenever she has a new album.
“All of the Girls You Loved Before” is Swift’s 189th Hot 100 hit, making her the artist with the third-most wins on the chart, behind only Drake (with 293 appearances) and the cast of the TV show Glee (with 207). Swift added significantly to her sum last year when every track on her new album Midnights made the Hot 100. The week the tunes debuted, she became the first artist in history to claim the entirety of the top 10 for herself.
While “All of the Girls You Loved Before” opens at No. 12, the other three songs Swift dropped at the same time don’t fare quite as well. “If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version),” “Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version)” with Joy Williams and John Paul White, and “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version)” only miss the chart by a few spaces. All three of those tracks, which were released alongside “All of the Girls You Loved Before,” appear on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, a 25-spot extension of the main Hot 100.
