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Taylor Swift’s ‘Me!’ & More: The Songs That Have Made the Biggest Leaps in Hot 100 History

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The song debuted from initial radio exposure before its full first-week airplay, streaming and sales totals propelled it to the runner-up spot (below Lil Nas X’s Billy Ray Cyrus-featuring “Old Town Road,” which logged the fifth of its eventual record 19 weeks at No. Giant steps up the Hot 100 have become fairly common since the chart adopted electronically-derived Luminate data in 1991, often sparked since the 2000s by the likes of video premieres, award show spotlights and the arrival of releases, including remixes, for purchase, along with, as with “Me!,” songs’ complete first weeks of tracking. Meanwhile, on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the biggest bound (since the survey became a combined stereo and mono listing in August 1963) belongs to Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By.

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