Taylor Swift's “Cruel Summer” becomes her single longest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100, adding a 54th week on the survey, dated May 25. It extends the 53-week streak of fellow former No. 1, “Anti-Hero.”
“Cruel Summer” claims the mark among Swift's 263 career Hot 100 entries, the most by a woman in the chart's history.
The song was originally released on Swift's 2019 album Republic Records Lover. The label began promoting the song as a single last June after Swift began performing it on her The Eras tour, her first in which she was able to showcase songs from Loverwhich was released shortly before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Cruel Summer” debuted at No. 29 on the Hot 100 dated September 7, 2019, and remained on the chart for the following week. She returned to the chart dated June 3, 2023, reached the top 10 last July and reached her first of four weeks at No. 1 on the chart dated last Oct. 28, making it her 10th of 12 No. 1s Swift's career. It is at No. 20 on the Hot 100 dated May 25.
Among Swift's Hot 100 hits, “Cruel Summer” has also logged the most weeks in the top five (20) and top 10 (34).
Swift and Jack Antonoff co-produced “Cruel Summer” and co-wrote it with St. Vincent. Notably, between its Hot 100 debut and re-entry, the three were credited as co-writers of Olivia Rodrigo's “Deja Vu” for the “Cruel Summer” interlude.
“The song we sang was the best [on Lover], but we thought, “Oh, you know what? That's going to be our secret best song,” Antonoff said of “Cruel Summer” during its Hot 100 crowning. Swift added, “We just wanted to say thank you for making 'Cruel Summer' a Hot 100 No. 1 , and it's not even summer anymore. It's a deep fall, I'm wearing a sweater.”
Here's an updated look at Swift's longest-running hits on the Hot 100 (via list dated May 25, 2024).
- 54 weeks, 'Cruel Summer', No. 1 for four weeks, beginning October 28, 2023
- 53 weeks, “Anti-Hero,” No. 1, eight weeks, beginning November 5, 2022
- 50 weeks, 'Shake It Off', No. 1, four weeks, starting September 6, 2014
- 50 weeks, “You Belong With Me”, No. 2 peak, August 22, 2009
- 49 weeks, “Love Story”, No. 4, January 17, 2009
- 48 Weeks, “Teardrops on My Guitar”, No. 13, March 1, 2008
- 38 weeks, “Blank Space”, No. 1, seven weeks, starting November 29, 2014
- 36 Weeks, “I Knew You Were Trouble.”, No. 2, January 12, 2013
- 36 weeks, “Our Song”, No. 16, January 19, 2008
- 35 weeks, 'Delicate', No. 12, 28 July 2018
“Cruel Summer” also became Swift's biggest hit on the Radio Songs chart of all formats, reigning for 12 weeks – twice as long as her second longest-running single (“Blank Space”). It's also her longest-running No. 1 for Adult Pop Airplay (23 weeks – the longest for a female song) and Pop Airplay (10 weeks). In addition, it topped the all-genre Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales surveys for a week each.
All charts dated May 25 will be updated on Billboard.com on Tuesday, May 21.
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