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Taylor Swift Jumps to Number 1 with 'Look What You Made Me Do'

By: Sep. 05, 2017
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Taylor Swift just received her fifth number 1 single with "Look What You Made Me Do," as reported by Billboard. She also broke the weekly streaming record for any song sung by a woman. You can say that Swift is having a great week.

"Look What You Made Me Do" debuted at number 77 on the charts last week. It leaped to number one after it was released for a full week.

Taylor Swift premiered the music video for her smash hit new single at the 2017 VMAs last week, which broke a Youtube record for most views in 24 hours (43.2 million views). You can pre-order Taylor Swift's new album, Reputation, which includes "Look What You Made Me Do," here: http://smarturl.it/reputationTS

Check out the music video for 'Look What You Made Me Do' below:

Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now. It debuted at number one in the United States and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards. Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded the successful singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble". With her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989 (2014), she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the United States. Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the US, Australia, and Canada. The album received three Grammy Awards, and Swift became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice. The 2015 eponymous concert tour for 1989 became one of highest-grossing of the decade.

As a songwriter, Swift has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She is also the recipient of ten Grammy Awards, five Guinness World Records, one Emmy Award, 21 Billboard Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award.



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