Mert & MarcusHate it or love it, we can’t stop talking about Taylor Swift‘s new single “Look What You Made Me Do” — and we evidently can’t stop downloading or streaming it, either.
Billboard reports that the song — the lead release from Tay’s new album Reputation — is poised to make a huge debut at #1 on next week’s Hot 100 chart. The publication says it could sell as many as 400,000 downloads, setting a new record for the best sales week of 2017.
That record, by the way, is currently held by Taylor’s pal Ed Sheeran, whose smash “Shape of You” debuted at #1 back in January with first-week sales of 240,000 copies. By the way, Ed appears in the video for “Look What You Made Me Do”…kind of. His name is written on the shirt Taylor wears when she portrays the nerdy girl character from her “You Belong with Me” video.
In addition to debuting on top of the Billboard Hot 100, Taylor’s song will probably top the Streaming Songs chart too, and could even surpass the record for one-week streams by a woman. In 2015, Adele set that record when “Hello” racked up 61.6 million streams in its first week.
Taylor’s success also spells doom for the song that has been #1 for the past 16 weeks: “Despacito.” If Taylor knocks it out of the top spot, it will have lost its chance to set the record for the longest-running #1 song in Hot 100 history.
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