Taylor Swift must have made a pact with some divine entity, and not for the success she has achieved, just for the sheer energy she has to be able to accomplish all that she has. The singer/songwriter has claimed yet another record on her quest to seemingly beat all musical records!
Swift’s latest album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), a re-recording of her 2010 album, has joined three of her other albums, Midnights, Lover, and Folklore on the Billboard Top 10, per The Hollywood Reporter. The album was released on July 7, and includes 22 tracks, 16 of which were re-recordings from the 2010 album written by Swift between the ages of 18 and 20, it also includes another six, previously unreleased “From the Vault,” songs as well.
This new record makes her the first living artist to have four albums in the Top 10 at the same time in 60 years. The last artist to achieve such a feat was Herb Alpert in 1966. Other artists have managed it posthumously, such as Prince who had five albums in the Top 10 after his death including The Very Best of Prince, Purple Rain, The Hits/The B-Sides, Ultimate, and 1999.
Upon the release of her album in July, Swift took to Instagram to write, “It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas, and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20.” It now marks her 12th album to land on the Billboard’s chart and grants her the prestige of achieving the monumental record of being the first woman to have four albums in the Top 10 at the same time during her lifetime.