Taylor Swift becomes the first female artist with 4 Albums I

Taylor Swift is the first woman and third artist in history to simultaneously have four of the Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 list. In order to recover creative and financial control over her work, Swift is redoing her first six albums. The third of those, Speak Now (Taylor's Version), was published earlier this month. It debuted at number one, giving Swift her 12th No. 1 album and moving her beyond Barbra Streisand in the list of female artists with the most No. 1 albums. According to Billboard, a publication that examines metrics including album sales and streaming, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) debuted with the year's largest week for any album.

It also includes six previously unheard tracks. It joins Swift's other three Top 10 albums, Midnights from 2022, Folklore from 2020, and Lover from 2019. They are, in order, fifth, tenth, and seventh. Swift's current Eras Tour, the single release of the Lover song "Cruel Summer" four years later, and Swift's major role in the soundtrack of the new second season of the Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty are just a few of the contributing elements cited by Vulture. Swift has added another chapter to history, whatever the cause.

She is the first living artist to have four albums simultaneously in the top 10 since Herb Alpert also had four albums there on the list with a date of April 2, 1966, according to Billboard, referring to the American trumpeter. The only other musician to have this distinction was Prince, who did so after his passing. Five of his albums reentered the Top 10 charts. Mid-May 2016, three weeks after his passing, The Very Best of Prince, the Purple Rain Soundtrack, The Hits/The B-Sides, Ultimate, and 1999 were released. Swift's last notable Billboard record predates this one. In October 2022, a few days after the publication of Midnights, she made history by being the first performer to take home all ten of Billboard's Hot 100 positions.

Despite writing a social media post on the importance of Speak Now (Taylor's Version), a song she penned between the ages of 18 and 20 and rerecorded at the age of 32, Swift hasn't publicly discussed her most recent run of milestones. At her Kansas City show earlier this month, Swift, who is winding up the U.S. leg of her Eras Tour, marked the album's release by releasing a music video for one of the new songs, "I Can See You," and adding another song, "Long Live," to the setlist. She went on to say that it was "unfathomably special" to her to be "singing those words in a stadium full of people who helped me get my music back."