American songstress Taylor Swift top Billboard top 100

American songstress Taylor Swift has broken yet another chart record in the US on the newly launched Billboard Artist 100.
The new chart was first launched back in July and is a combination of all artists across all of Billboard’s major charts including Hot 100 Singles and Top Album Sales.
Since The Billboard Artist 100 was launched back in July, 25 weeks ago, Taylor Swift has spent a total of ten weeks at the top.
Billboard have confirmed the other artists in the Top 5 this week as outlined below;
 2) Nicki Minaj
3) Ed Sheeran
4) Pentatonix and
 5) Sam Smith

Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ has been nominated in the Song of the Year category at the GRAMMYs

While Taylor Swift has spent ten weeks at the top, other artists have also found success on the chart including Sam Smith who spent three weeks in the number one spot. Ariana Grande and Maroon 5 have both spent two weeks each at the top. Can Taylor be stopped though?
You’ll remember, when Taylor released her new album ‘1989’ which boasts the hits, ‘Shake It Off’ and ‘Blank Space’ that it never made it onto streaming service Spotify.
Taylor had previously featured on the music streaming service and the decision to not include her new album was an odd one for many.

Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ didn’t make it onto Spotify

However the blonde beauty has revealed that the decision to remove her music from the service got her a lot of support and praise regarding the matter.
Speaking about the praise from her peers she told The Hollywood Reporter: “I didn’t think that it would be shocking to anyone.”
“With as many ways as artists are personalising their musical distribution, it didn’t occur to me that this would be anything that anyone would talk about.”
“But I could never have expected so many text messages, emails and phone calls from other artists, writers and producers saying thank you.” What do you think, was it a good move?