Taylor Swift has nabbed her 15th No. 1 song as her Toy Story 5 track “I Knew It, I Knew You” has debuted atop Billboard’s Hot 100, the publication confirmed Monday.
“I Knew It, I Knew You” has Swift coming back to her country roots, a fitting aesthetic choice given that the song is an ode to cowgirl Jessie. The track marks Swift’s first release since she dropped her 12th album The Life of a Showgirl last September, and it reunites her with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote the song and provided instrumentation too.
Swift dethroned Ariana Grande and her Petal single “Hate that I Made You Love Me,” drawing in 27.2 million week one streams as well as 87,000 sales, per Billboard. Coming in second this week is Ella Langley’s “Choosin’,” while Drake’s “STFU” came in third; Langley’s “Be Her” is in fourth; and “Hate That I Made You Love Me” rounds out the top 5. Swift’s label Republic Records reps both Drake and Grande, meaning the label has topped the Hot 100 with new songs in each of the past three weeks.
“I Knew It, I Knew You” could very well see a surge in the coming weeks as well, as Toy Story 5 heads to theaters this Friday.
The number one bow is just another milestone for Swift, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last week, becoming the youngest woman ever to be given that honor. She gave an emotional speech in New York to close out the induction ceremony, thanking her family for their sacrifices in her early career and imparting advice to the next generation of hitmakers too.
“If I look back at my entire 23-year career in music,” Swift told the crowd, “the ups and downs, the industry battles, the trials and tribulations, the tears and the cheers and the dog piling of doubt, the criticisms fair and unfair, the complete loss of privacy, the world tours and the ego wars and the twists of fate, the absolute magical chaos of this path that I chose when I was too young to remember it ever being a choice at all: songwriting was the easiest thing I ever did.”
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