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Taylor Swift Just Set a New Chart Record With a Single That Almost Never Was · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift has had an astonishing two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: three Hot one hundred songs across her career, more than
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  Speaker 2: any other female artist, so it's pretty incredible that one,
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  Speaker 2: which just became our longest charting hit, was initially not
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  Speaker 2: even released as a single in the first place. Cruel
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  Speaker 2: Summer just spent its fifty fourth week on the Hot
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  Speaker 2: one hundred, officially sliding past Antihero to set her own
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  Speaker 2: personal best run. The song, which was originally included on
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  Speaker 2: Lover twenty nineteen, wasn't promoted as a single until last June,
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  Speaker 2: but with lyrics and a vibe Taylor made for those long,
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  Speaker 2: hot days, it quickly became a smash in one of
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  Speaker 2: the defining songs of Summer for twenty twenty three, then
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  Speaker 2: stuck around through the fall of twenty twenty three, then winter,
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  Speaker 2: then this current spring. When those signs of slowing down, Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: they just keep the streak going through this summer as well.
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  Speaker 2: Crul Summer's out
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  Speaker 1: Now, that's direct from Hollywood,