Taylor Swift Knocks Morgan Wallen off the Top Spot as Reputation dethrones I'm The Problem at No. 1 on iTunes

Just a week after Morgan Wallen had broken his own previous record for the most number of songs in the Billboard Hot 100 when all 37 of the songs from his recently released I'm The Problem album entered the charts, becoming only the second musical act in the history of the Billboard charts to claim 30 simultaneous spots on the Hot 100 on more than one occasion along with Taylor Swift, the singer who originally popularised the phrase "I'm the problem" on her 2022 hit 'Anti-Hero' returns to dethrone the Sneedville superstar from iTunes.

Swift had previously filled 32 positions on the Hot 100 just a year ago when her latest album The Tortured Poets Department was released. Only one other artist, Playboi Carti, has scored 30 or more Hot 100 hits at one time when he landed 31 simultaneous songs in the chart in late March from his album Music.

As news broke that Swift had acquired the master rights back to her first six albums - ending a long-running battle over the ownership of her music which began in June 2019 when music manager Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings bought Swift's former record label Big Machine and, with it, all the songs from Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and reputation - fans rushed to streaming services to listen to all those albums that they had previously refused to stream in their original formats. Opting instead to listen to CD, vinyl or the rerecorded "Taylor's Version" variants of them.

Taylor Swift's reputation shot straight to No. 1 on iTunes rankings around the world, including in the U.S. after the singer announced that plans for a revamped "TS" edition would now be put on hold. The album jumped more than 160 spots to become the top-selling title in America.

Swift’s entire catalogue got a huge boost on iTunes after the news broke that she now controls her own music and her self-titled debut — the only other one of her six earliest records that hasn’t yet had the 'Taylor's Version' treament — currently sits at No. 2, right behind Reputation.

Swift mentioned in a letter posted to her website that she has already completed the re-recording of her debut, and it will likely be released at some point, although no timeline has been given for when fans may hear it.

Swift currently fills four spaces inside the top 10 on the iTunes Top Albums chart, with Speak Now and 1989 (Deluxe Edition) coming in at 8 and 9, despite both albums having already been re-recorded and re-released, but it is the original versions that fans are jumping at the chance to listen to again.

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