Taylor Swift’s “Elizabeth Taylor” hits the top 10 on Billboard’s Adult Pop Airplay chart, extending one record and contributing to a first over the survey’s 30-year history.
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The song ascends a spot to No. 10 on the April 25-dated chart, becoming Swift’s record-furthering 35th top 10. Dating to the list’s start in March 1996, the superstar widens her lead over Maroon 5, the runner-up with 28 top 10s. P!nk places third with 20.
Meanwhile, “Elizabeth Taylor” joins two other Swift hits in the current Adult Pop Airplay top 10, making for a back-to-back-to-back block. “Opalite” ranks at No. 8 and “The Fate of Ophelia” is No. 9. The songs topped the chart for three weeks in February-March and four weeks last November-December, respectively. Swift makes history as the first artist ever to claim three spots in the chart’s top 10 simultaneously.
Highlighting Swift’s support at radio, all three songs were among the 10 most-played tracks on WBMX (Mix 104.1) Boston in the April 10-16 tracking week, according to Mediabase, which provides data to Luminate for Billboard’s airplay charts.
Numerous artists have doubled up in the Adult Pop Airplay top 10, starting with Alanis Morissette in July 1996 (thanks to “Ironic” and “You Learn”). Swift scores her record 80th week with multiple titles in the region, followed by Ed Sheeran with 59 weeks with two top 10s together and Justin Bieber with 48.
“Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite” and “The Fate of Ophelia” are from Swift’s Republic Records album The Life of a Showgirl, which launched last October with a record-shattering 4.002 million first-week equivalent-album units in the United States, according to Luminate, becoming her 15th Billboard 200 No. 1, the most among soloists. “Elizabeth Taylor” simultaneously debuted at its No. 3 high on the Billboard Hot 100, as the set’s songs infused the chart’s top 12 spots, the most ever for an artist from No. 1 on down in a single week.
All charts dated April 25 will update Tuesday, April 21, on Billboard.com.
