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Taylor Swift’s first 10 Hot 100 number-one songs
Daily Tens #83 · Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Ranked by date first reaching no. 1, earliest first
Heads up: the answers are published further down this page.
About this ranking
This is a chronology of Taylor Swift recordings first reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It is not a ranking of their total weeks at the top or their lifetime streams. The dates reveal two different routes to a chart-topping single: an immediate launch and a song that reaches the summit well after its original release.
The answers
| Rank | Answer | First number-one chart date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | 2012-09-01 |
| 2 | Shake It Off | 2014-09-06 |
| 3 | Blank Space | 2014-11-29 |
| 4 | Bad Blood | 2015-06-06 |
| 5 | Look What You Made Me Do | 2017-09-16 |
| 6 | Cardigan | 2020-08-08 |
| 7 | Willow | 2020-12-26 |
| 8 | All Too Well | 2021-11-27 |
| 9 | Anti-Hero | 2022-11-05 |
| 10 | Cruel Summer | 2023-10-28 |
Values follow the dated source snapshot and the original answer order. Rounding is for display only; the ranking uses the stored values.
Chart date versus release date
The first row, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, is attached to the chart dated September 1, 2012. A chart’s issue date is not necessarily the day the recording became available or the day Billboard announced the result. Sorting by the release date instead would answer a different question. The table consistently records the first number-one chart date for each song, making the ordering reproducible without mixing those several meanings of “came out.”
Cruel Summer is the useful counterexample
Cruel Summer originally belonged to the Lover era but first topped the Hot 100 in 2023. In this chronology it follows Anti-Hero, whose first number-one date was in 2022. That order can surprise someone working from album release order. It shows why an older recording can be a new chart milestone. A later rise in attention does not make it a newly released song, and its original album date does not determine when it enters this list.
How recordings and credited songs are counted
Bad Blood’s number-one history includes the Kendrick Lamar remix, while All Too Well’s chart milestone followed the expanded recording released with Red (Taylor’s Version). The puzzle names the charted song rather than asking players to enter every credit or version suffix. Those conventions must be stated because adding all album tracks, counting a re-recording twice or treating every remix as an independent number-one title could change the set. This list follows the song entries in the saved chart chronology.
What the ten milestones do not measure
Shake It Off and Blank Space reaching the summit in the same year does not establish that they had equal commercial runs. Likewise, one first-week date gives no total for streams, sales or radio exposure. The Hot 100 combines several inputs under rules that have changed over time. The archive therefore preserves dates and order, without inventing a popularity score to compare eras. For a longer performance comparison, consult weeks at number one or the dated chart histories separately.
Sources & further reading
Explanation updated . The puzzle’s original data date is listed below.
Sources & methodology
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