www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swift-hot-100-top-14-fortnight-post-malone-record/
Taylor Swift Claims Record Top 14 Spots on Billboard Hot 100, Led by ‘Fortnight’ With Post Malone
[CHART]Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone - Fortnight (NEW)
Taylor Swift - Down Bad (NEW)
Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (NEW)
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (NEW)
Taylor Swift - So Long, London (NEW)
Taylor Swift - My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys (NEW)
Taylor Swift - But Daddy I Love Him (NEW)
Taylor Swift feat. Florence + The Machine - Florida!!! (NEW)
Taylor Swift - Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me? (NEW)
Taylor Swift - Guilty As Sin? (NEW)
Taylor Swift - Fresh Out The Slammer (NEW)
Taylor Swift - loml (NEW)
Taylor Swift - The Alchemy (NEW)
Taylor Swift - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (NEW)
So boring.
I know people have different feelings on this but I find the ability for an artist (or a season) to monopolize the Hot 100 one of the many issues with the current system in place.
It's a consequence of the after-album single dying and the availability of new releases with streaming. Everything is a lot more frontloaded because fans listen to the whole album at first. Before it was just singles in the hot 100 so we got more individual songs.
The only fair way to prevent it is having only official singles count. But then you get into the argument of: is the purpose of the hot 100 being fun or actually showing what music is being consumed the most?
One idea I have, besides just instituting British rules:
Allow only one new song per artist per week to debut in the Hot 100.
Potential downside is it encourages artists to release tons of singles and no albums, but maybe it could work? So this week only Fortnight would enter. Next week another song would. Since it's Taylor her album will probably "album bomb" the charts for 3-4 weeks, but even then she'd have at most 5 songs on the charts including Cruel Summer.
I don't dislike the idea as a way of keeping the hot 100 somewhat organic without arbitrary rules.
But we would need a separate songs chart that lets everything in to accurately portrait the success of non-singles. Maybe it can be a monthly chart so that frontloaded album bombs don't break it?
Everything creates incentives.
Monthly chart means all artists release music first day of the month.