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It debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100 to become her first No.
Why do they get to make records like that and I dont?
1s and all of them debuts.
Ive never done this before, she wrote on Instagram.
All signs afterward pointed toward Swift riding that albums success while she turned her sightstoward rerecording her old music.
She got yetanother No.
1 (first accomplished withfolklore).
Beyonce recognized the flaws in the whole machine back in2013 and nearly put a stop to it.
1 on the Billboard 200.)
Fridays releases, only to pull the trigger too early and continue tinkering for weeks after his release.
Three years later, those same rap albums tend to be the ones going to No.
It became inarguable that streaming is built for this sort ofcultural and consumer impact.
Never mind the control these releases give the musicians themselves.
It worked for her as well as it had worked for the rappers:Positionsdebuted at No.
1, drawing nearly 75 percent of its equivalent units from streaming.
1, her first top song since Look What You Made Me Do in 2017.
Swift spent her first ten weeks in the top ten withfolklore, seven of them nonconsecutively at No.
1; GrandesPositionsspent six weeks in the top five.
Gaga, the only No.
The album that knockedChromaticaoff No.
1 was Lil BabysMy Turn, returning to the top spot after its March debut.
Lil Baby spent 13 weeks shifting between No.
6 before returning to No.
1; Gaga releasedChromatica13 weeks after lead single Stupid Love.
Butits likelyevermoreisnt going to feel over after just a few weeks.
Its that collective experience every great album rollout hopes to pull off.
