Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” hitting No. 1 gives her The Life of a Showgirl album its second No. 1 — a rarity among 2020s albums.
Taylor Swift ‘Opalite’ Music Video
Courtesy of Republic Records
As we’ve covered extensively here at Billboard, Taylor Swift makes a big move on the charts this week by topping the Billboard Hot 100 dated Feb. 28 with her latest single, “Opalite.” The song jumps from No. 8 to No. 1, boosted by a surge in song sales — thanks to a variety of recently shipped new physical editions and new digitally released remixes from such producer/DJs as Chris Lake and Skream — making it the second single from Swift’s 2025 blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl to top Billboard‘s marquee songs chart.
While scoring multiple No. 1 hits from the same album might not sound like a major accomplishment for a pop star on Taylor Swift’s level, it’s become a pretty rare feat in recent years. In the streaming era, where advance singles have become less common and it’s harder than ever to push a single to the top of the charts following its release to DSPs — with listeners already familiar with the song before its official single release — even the biggest pop stars are struggling to score more than one No. 1 hit per album.
Case in point: Swift herself. The biggest pop star of her generation went 11 years between multi-No. 1 albums, with the first (and until recently, only) time she’d pulled off the feat coming with 1989 back in 2014-15. (That album had three No. 1s: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” and the Kendrick Lamar-featuring “Bad Blood.”) Since then, Swift had scored nine Hot 100 No. 1s, but all of them had come from different albums, until “Opalite” followed Showgirl lead single (and 10-week No. 1) “The Fate of Ophelia” to the the top of the chart.
With its second No. 1, Showgirl becomes just the 10th album of the 2020s to notch multiple Hot 100-toppers. See the complete list of albums that have done it this decade below, in chronological order of album release.
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The Weeknd, After Hours (2020)
No. 1s: “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “Save Your Tears” (with Ariana Grande)
Notes: “Heartless” actually topped the Hot 100 in 2019, before the album’s release. “Save Your Tears” was a solo track on the original After Hours, but added Ariana Grande during the song’s single release, with both versions of the song being counted together on the Billboard charts.
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BTS, Be (2020)
No. 1s: “Dynamite,” “Life Goes On”
Notes: These are the only two of BTS’ six Hot 100 No. 1s to date to appear on an official BTS album.
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Olivia Rodrigo, Sour (2021)
No. 1s: “Drivers License,” “Good 4 U”
Notes: Rodrigo became the first artist to score multiple No. 1s from a debut album since Cardi B did it with Invasion of Privacy (“Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” and “I Like It” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin) in 2018.
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Lil Nas X, Montero (2021)
No. 1s: “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” “Industry Baby” (with Jack Harlow)
Notes: Lil Nas X was the rare artist who called his own shot with his multi-No. 1 album, rapping on “Industry Baby”: “Need to get this album done/ Need a couple No. 1s.”
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Drake, For All the Dogs (2023)
No. 1s: “Slime You Out” (feat. SZA), “First Person Shooter” (feat. J. Cole)
Notes: For All the Dogs became the second multi-No. 1 album of Drake’s career, following 2018’s Scorpion, which topped the Hot 100 with a trio of singles: “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What” and “In My Feelings.”
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Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine (2024)
No. 1s: “Yes, And?,” “We Can’t Be Your Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
Notes: Eternal Sunshine marked Grande’s second career multi-No. 1 album, following 2019’s Thank U, Next (title track and “7 Rings”).
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Kendrick Lamar, GNX (2024)
No. 1s: “Squabble Up,” “Luther” (with SZA)
Notes: GNX is a rare album on this list to push a second single to No. 1 months after its release, with “Luther” topping the Hot 100 for the first time in the weeks following Lamar and SZA’s performance of it at Super Bowl LIX in February 2025.
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Morgan Wallen, I’m the Problem (2025)
No. 1s: “Love Somebody,” “What I Want” (feat. Tate McRae)
Notes: This was one of the longest gaps in between No. 1s of any album on this list, with “Love Somebody” debuting at No. 1 in November 2024, nearly seven months before “What I Want” topped the chart following the Problem release week in May 2025.
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Cardi B, Am I the Drama? (2025)
No. 1s: “WAP” (feat. Megan Thee Stallion), “Up”
Notes: This was easily the longest gap for an album on this list in between songs hitting No. 1 and being included on the album, with “WAP” (featuring Megan Thee Stallion) and “Up” topping the chart in August 2020 and March 2021, respectively, years before finally being released on Drama, Cardi’s 2025 sophomore album.
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Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl (2025)
No. 1s: “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Opalite”
Notes: While Swift hadn’t scored a multi-No. 1 album since 1989, she had a pair of albums with a No. 1 and two No. 2s: 2019’s Lover (“Cruel Summer,” No. 1 — in 2023; “ME!” (featuring Brendon Urie) and “You Need to Calm Down,” No. 2) and 2022’s Midnights (“Anti-Hero,” No. 1; “Lavender Haze” and “Karma” (featuring Ice Spice), No. 2).
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