Taylor Swift claims No. 1 with her re-recorded Speak Now album

Taylor Swift’s takeover of the Australian charts continues, with the pop superstar claiming a dizzying numbers of to top chart spots.

Taylor Swift’s Speak Now keeps talking when it comes to smashing records.

A week since the Taylor’s Version reboot of her 2010 album was released she has claimed a dizzying clutch of new streaming and chart titles.

Just 24 hours after it was released last Friday, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) had become the most streamed album in a single day in 2023.

It seems no one was listening to much else this week.

Taylor Swift’s re-recorded version of Speak Now, which dropped on July 7, was No.1 on the ARIA charts this week. Picture: Instagram

And the Swifties’ social media hypefest around the record’s release had a flow-on effect to her other 10 studio albums with each now having breached the one billion streams benchmark.

It was zero surprise Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA charts this week in the wake of the ticket-buying hysteria for her Eras Tour concerts in Australia next year.

This latest instalment of her re-recording campaign to reclaim ownership of her first six albums helmed her takeover of the ARIA top 10, albeit pushed down a place thanks to the No. 2 debut of Australian psychedelic rock kings King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Midnights landed at No. 3 followed by Lover (No. 4), Reputation (No. 5), 1989 (No. 6) and Folklore (No. 9).

Just missing out on the top 10 was Red (Taylor’s Version) at No. 11 with Fearless (Taylor’s Version) sliding to No. 18 and Evermore down to No. 24.

Swift was also all over the ARIA singles chart with 20 songs in total in the top 50.

Taylor Swift has had 20 songs feature in the top 50 ARIA charts this week. Picture: Getty Images

Fifteen out of the 22 tracks on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) made the cut but none of them could trump her highest entry with latest hit single Cruel Summer, which dropped one spot to No. 4 this week. Her pop heiress apparent Olivia Rodrigo scored more streams with her new smash Vampire which held steady at No. 2 this week.

I See You, a From the Vault bonus track, was the most played and downloaded track from her Speak Now re-recorded album.

It will be intriguing to see if that first blush of streaming love for her latest reboot has a chart afterglow next week but it is likely several of the Taylor’s Version tracks will quietly slip out of the top 50.

There aren’t any big pop records dropping this week to threaten her hold on No. 1 next week but the Blur comeback record The Ballad of Darren and Barbie: The Album both land on July 21 and will challenge her stranglehold on the chart summit.

RIP all the other artists on the planet releasing new stuff and dreaming of a top 50 chart debut as Swift hoovers up a lot of the oxygen in the streaming ecosystem.

Originally published as Taylor Swift claims No. 1 with her re-recorded Speak Now album