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Taylor Swift Just Accomplished Something Massive That Hasn’t Been Done Since Whitey Houston in the Early 90s · 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's The Tortured Poets Apartment has been providing the
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Speaker 2: soundtrack for endless pool parties and road trips this summer,
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Speaker 2: and its runway success has just propelled Taylor into a
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Speaker 2: career best moment. It's now spent eleven consecutive weeks on
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Speaker 2: top of the album's two hundred, matching her previous record
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Speaker 2: set with nineteen eighty nine and Fearless, which both matched
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Speaker 2: that tally, but neither of those two Taylor projects managed
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Speaker 2: to top eleven charts consecutively. In fact, it's the first
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Speaker 2: album by a female artist with that longest streak since
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Speaker 2: Whitney Houston racked up thirteen consecutive weeks with the Bodyguard
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Speaker 2: soundtrack back in the early nineties, which actually did not
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Speaker 2: debut at number one, and that fact earns Taylor another distinction.
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Speaker 2: The only other two albums in music history to log
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Speaker 2: at least their first eleven weeks at number one are
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Speaker 2: Morgan Wallin's One Thing at a Time and Stevie Wander's
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Speaker 2: Songs in the Key of Life That's
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