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\nTaylor Swift quickly became a superstar when she released her debut self-titled album in 2006. The set made her a darling newcomer in the country space, and it didn\u2019t take long before her ambitions grew beyond just that one style.<\/p>\n
\nTaylor Swift quickly became a superstar when she released her debut self-titled album in 2006. The set made her a darling newcomer in the country space, and it didn\u2019t take long before her ambitions grew beyond just that one style.<\/p>\n
After delivering several albums that fit squarely under the country label, Taylor Swift began to pivot into pop music. Her album\u00a0Red<\/em>\u00a0straddled the line between the two, but it was\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0that showed she had what it takes to stand out as one of the biggest hitmakers in top 40 pop history.<\/p>\n A decade ago, 1989 claimed its last week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album reigned over Billboard\u2019s ranking of the most-consumed full-lengths and EPs for 11 nonconsecutive weeks, ending its lengthy run in first place on the chart dated February 21, 2015.<\/p>\n Among a catalog filled with behemoth albums and massive singles,\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0may be remembered as perhaps Swift\u2019s most important. It helped her rise above just one style and established her as not just a hitmaker, but one of the most successful pop musicians of all time \u2014 one who could turn herself from a successful musical act into a proper phenomenon.<\/p>\n As it collected its eleventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200,\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0tied with\u00a0Fearless<\/em>\u00a0as Swift\u2019s album with the most weeks in charge of the Billboard 200. That record would hold until 2024, when\u00a0The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>\u00a0eclipsed both of those sets and racked up 17 stays in first place.<\/p>\n By the time it snagged its final week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200,\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0was far from finished. In fact, only the first three of seven singles had been released from the project, and Swift would go on to promote the blockbuster for another year.<\/p>\n At the time, \u201cBlank Space\u201d was still performing well, and Swift had just chosen \u201cStyle\u201d to be the third official single from\u00a01989<\/em>. The first two tracks, \u201cShake It Off\u201d and \u201cBlank Space,\u201d hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, while \u201cStyle\u201d climbed into the top 10 but didn\u2019t quite dominate. Just a few months later, in June of that year, \u201cBad Blood\u201d featuring Kendrick Lamar would shoot to the highest rung on the Hot 100, becoming the third champion from\u00a01989<\/em>.<\/p>\n While its run at No. 1 may have stopped early in 2015 after beginning in November 2014,\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0went on to perform exceptionally well on the Billboard 200 for years to come. The title remains Swift\u2019s longest-charting album on the list, beating the follow-up longest winner,\u00a0Reputation,<\/em>\u00a0by nearly 200 turns on the tally.<\/p>\n It looked for a while like\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0might never fully disappear from the charts, and that is still technically the case, as it returns to the Billboard 200, though rarely. Swift seemingly ended the title\u2019s successful run by releasing\u00a01989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>, a slightly reworked and expanded edition that helped her claim ownership over the music after the rights to her early works were sold away from her.<\/p>\n 11 weeks at No. 1 proved to be just the beginning for\u00a01989<\/em>. The title lived on the Billboard 200 for years and won Swift a number of Grammys, including Album of the Year for the second time. When it was named the champion during music\u2019s biggest night, Swift became one of a very, very small group of artists to come out on top in that most competitive category more than once\u2026but she still had a long road ahead of her.\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0now ranks among the singer\u2019s four Album of the Year winners, as\u00a0Fearless<\/em>,\u00a0Folklore<\/em>, and\u00a0Midnights<\/em>\u00a0were all gifted the trophy as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After delivering several albums that fit squarely under the country label, Taylor Swift began to pivot into pop music. Her album\u00a0Red\u00a0straddled the line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-swifts"],"yoast_head":"\n1989<\/em>\u00a0At No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/h2>\n
1989\u00a0<\/em>Ties Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0Fearless<\/em><\/h2>\n
1989<\/em>\u2019s Many Hit Singles<\/h2>\n
Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0Spent Years on the Billboard 200<\/h2>\n
1989\u00a0<\/em>Vs. 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em><\/h2>\n
Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a01989<\/em>\u00a0at the Grammys<\/h2>\n