{"id":352756,"date":"2026-02-23T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352756\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:37:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-opalite-hits-no-1-on-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352756\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Opalite\u2019 Hits No. 1 on Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe sky\u2019s the limit for Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOpalite,\u201d which bounds seven spots to become her 14th No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift ties Rihanna for the third-most Hot 100 No. 1s, after only The Beatles (20) and Mariah Carey (19), dating to the chart\u2019s start<\/a>. \u201cOpalite\u201d is Swift\u2019s ninth No. 1 since 2020, extending her mark for the most this decade.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, \u201cOpalite\u201d is the second Hot 100 leader from Swift\u2019s 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl, after \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d ruled for a personal-best 10 weeks<\/a> beginning in October. The set, on Republic Records, becomes her second to generate multiple leaders, after 1989 (\u201cShake It Off,\u201d \u201cBlank Space\u201d and \u201cBad Blood,\u201d featuring Kendrick Lamar) in 2014-15.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOpalite\u201d tops the Hot 100 (after initially peaking at No. 2 upon its October debut) sparked by a surge of physical sales that shipped to consumers and new remixes released during the tracking week. Earlier in February, its official video premiered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, Bruno Mars\u2019 former Hot 100 No. 1 \u201cI Just Might,\u201d at No. 6, rises to the top of the Radio Songs<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the full rundown of this week\u2019s Hot 100 top 10 below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Feb. 28, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Feb. 24. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n

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