Taylor Swift is the first female artist with 4 Billboard Top 10 albums at once

Taylor Swift performs “The Man” during her Eras tour show in Arlington, Texas, in March. She just became the first woman to have four Top 10 charting albums at once.

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Drop everything now: Taylor Swift has just made history as the first woman — and third artist ever — to have four of the Top 10 albums in the Billboard 200 chart at the same time.

Swift is rerecording her first six albums in order to regain artistic and financial control of her work and released the third of those, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), earlier this month.

It debuted in the top spot, marking Swift’s 12th No. 1 album and pushing her past Barbra Streisand for the most chart-toppers by a female artist.

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) — which also features six previously unreleased songs — launched with the year’s biggest week for any album, according to Billboard, which looks at album sales and streaming metrics, among others.

It joins three of Swift’s other albums — 2022’s Midnights, 2020’s Folklore and 2019’s Lover — in the Top 10. They are fifth, 10th and seventh, respectively.

Vulture points to a number of factors, including Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour, the release of the Lover song “Cruel Summer” as a single four years later and Swift’s prominent place in the soundtrack of the new second season of the Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Whatever the reason, Swift has earned another page in the history books.

“She is the first living act to have four albums in the top 10 at the same time since the April 2, 1966-dated chart, when Herb Alpert also had four albums in the top 10,”…