America Has Revealed Which New Taylor Swift Songs Are the Skips
Slate looked at the charts—and did the math.
By Nadira Goffe for Slate –
News broke the end of April that Taylor Swift had shattered a new record when 14 songs from her recent behemoth of a release, The Tortured Poets Department, took the top 14 spots on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. With so much to listen to—the album’s 16 main tracks were accompanied by 15 surprise bonus tracks—the Swifties clearly got to work streaming nonstop, and all 31 tracks made the Hot 100. Now, with Tuesday’s release of the full chart data, we can do our own obsessive deep dive to assess which Tortured Poets songs fans have on repeat and which tracks are skips—and whether this reveals anything deeper, like, which parts of Swift’s love life and mythology are proving the most irresistible.
Because the order that the songs placed on the Hot 100 loosely matches the order in which they appear on the album, we can tell that most fans are listening to the album in order. However, the discrepancies reveal which tracks people are skipping past—and which ones they’re putting on repeat. Below, we compare the order that Swift’s songs appear on the Hot 100 to the order they appear on the album to figure out what listeners really think of The Tortured Poets Department.
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