This week, in its 20th frame on the Billboard Hot 100, Taylor Swift‘s “Opalite” jumps from from No. 8 to No. 1. The hit song, which originally debuted at No. 2 on the Hot 100 dated Oct. 18, 2025 (following the release of parent album The Life of a Showgirl) was boosted by a surge in song sales, with new physical editions of it shipping out to fans, and new remixes of it being made available for digital purchase and streaming.
With its ascent to pole position, the song becomes the second Showgirl single to top the Hot 100 — following “The Fate of Ophelia,” which debuted at No. 1 and ruled for a total of 10 weeks (Swift’s personal best) between 2025-26. That makes Showgirl just the second-ever Swift album to boast multiple Hot 100 leaders, following 2014’s 1989, which topped the chart with three singles: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space” and the Kendrick Lamar-featuring “Bad Blood.”
With her second album featuring multiple Hot 100 No. 1s, Swift joins an exclusive club of artists with two or more albums that boast two or more No. 1 hits on their tracklist. In fact, in the nearly 68-year history of the Hot 100, Swift becomes just the 22nd artist who can make such a claim — with the full list excluding such all-time Hot 100 heavy-hitters as Madonna (who scored 12 No. 1s, but only included multiple such hits on the same original album once, with 1986’s True Blue) and Elton John (who scored nine No. 1s, but, surprisingly, never with multiple leaders on the same album).
Below, find the complete list of artists who have pulled off this chart feat, starting with the two artists who have done it the most times — who, not coincidentally, also happen to be the two artists with the most No. 1s in Hot 100 history.
(For the purposes of this list, we only counted songs towards an album’s tally that appeared on the original tracklist in some version, and had never previously appeared on an official album release by that artist — so songs later added to deluxe reissues were not included towards the tallies of their original albums, nor were songs that appeared on the original album counted towards the deluxe version. In the case where artists released different versions of an album or different albums altogether for different markets, we went with the U.S.-released albums and their corresponding tracklists.
We did not count various artist soundtracks for this list — and did not consider prior inclusion on such a soundtrack before appearing on an artist’s original album as disqualifying to counting towards that album’s tally. We also did not count compilation albums unless they consisted of a majority of material that was either previously unreleased, or released within the period following the lead artist’s most recent full-length effort.)
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The Beatles (5)
A Hard Day’s Night (released in 1964): “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “A Hard Day’s Night”
Help! (1965): “Help!,” “Ticket to Ride”
Yesterday and Today (1966): “Yesterday,” “We Can Work It Out”
Magical Mystery Tour (1967): “Penny Lane,” “All You Need Is Love,” “Hello Goodbye”
Let It Be (1970): “Get Back,” “Let It Be,” “The Long and Winding Road”/”For You Blue”
Notes: Yesterday and Today was a North America-only album release; in The Beatles’ U.K. home country, “Yesterday” was included on the Help! album and “We Can Work It Out” was a standalone single. Also, in the U.K., Magical Mystery Tour was a double-EP that only included the six songs from the accompanying Beatles TV movie of the same name; in the U.S., it was released as a single-LP set that also collected the A-sides and B-sides from the three singles they released in 1967.
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Mariah Carey (5)
Mariah Carey (1990): “Vision of Love,” “Love Takes Time,” “Someday, “I Don’t Wanna Cry”
Music Box (1993): “Dreamlover,” “Hero”
Daydream (1995): “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day” (with Boyz II Men), “Always Be My Baby”
Butterfly (1997): “Honey,” “My All”
Rainbow (1999): “Heartbreaker” (feat. Jay-Z), “Thank God I Found You” (feat. Joe & 98 Degrees)
Notes: Emotions (1991) and The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) came closest to a sixth multi-No. 1 album for Carey, both generating one No. 1 hit and one No. 2 hit. (“Don’t Forget About Us,” the second No. 1 of the Mimi era, was not included on the album’s original tracklist — only its Ultra Platinum Edition, released much later in the year — and thus, does not count for this list.)
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Whitney Houston (3)
Whitney Houston (1985): “Saving All My Love for You,” “How Will I Know,” “Greatest Love of All”
Whitney (1987): “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “So Emotional,” “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”
I’m Your Baby Tonight (1990): “I’m Your Baby Tonight,” “All the Man That I Need”
Notes: While Houston’s biggest Hot 100 hit, the 14-week No. 1 “I Will Always Love You,” also came from her biggest-selling album, the 1992 soundtrack to The Bodyguard, it was the album’s lone No. 1 — with “I’m Every Woman” and “I Have Nothing” both peaking at No. 4.
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Janet Jackson (3)
Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989): “Miss You Much,” “Escapade,” “Black Cat,” “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”
Janet. (1993): “That’s the Way Love Goes,” “Again”
All for You (2001): “Doesn’t Really Matter,” “All for You”
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Michael Jackson (3)
Off the Wall (1979): “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Rock With You”
Thriller (1982): “Billie Jean,” “Beat It”
Bad (1987): “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” (with Siedah Garrett), “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man in the Mirror,” “Dirty Diana”
Notes: Bad is one of just two albums in Hot 100 history to generate five No. 1 singles. (The other is from an artist coming up later in this list.)
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The Supremes (3)
Where Did Our Love Go (1964): “Where Did Our Love Go,” “Baby Love,” “Come See About Me”
More Hits by The Supremes (1965): “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Back in My Arms Again”
The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1967): “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone”
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The Weeknd (3)
Beauty Behind the Madness (2015): “Can’t Feel My Face,” “The Hills”
Starboy (2016): “Starboy” (feat. Daft Punk), “Die for You” (with Ariana Grande)
After Hours (2020): “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “Save Your Tears” (with Ariana Grande)
Notes: Both “Die for You” and “Save Your Tears” went to No. 1 thanks to boosts from new versions of the songs featuring regular collaborator Ariana Grande, but with the original solo versions from the Starboy and After Hours albums, respectively, the titles still contribute to The Weeknd’s chart history (and Grande’s) and his inclusion on this list.
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Paula Abdul (2)
Forever Your Girl (1988): “Straight Up,” “Forever Your Girl,” “Cold Hearted,” “Opposites Attract” (with The Wild Pair)
Spellbound (1991): “Rush, Rush,” “The Promise of a New Day”
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Bon Jovi (2)
Slippery When Wet (1986): “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer”
New Jersey (1988): “Bad Medicine,” “I’ll Be There for You”
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Cardi B (2)
Invasion of Privacy (2018): “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” “I Like It” (with Bad Bunny and J Balvin)
Am I the Drama? (2025): “WAP” (feat. Megan Thee Stallion), “Up”
Notes: With both of her two LPs generating multiple Hot 100 No. 1 hits, Cardi B is the only artist on this list with every one of her official albums represented.
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Destiny’s Child (2)
The Writing’s on the Wall (1999): “Bills, Bills, Bills,” “Say My Name”
Survivor (2001): “Independent Women Part I,” “Bootylicious”
Notes: While Beyoncé has twice as many No. 1s as a solo artist (8) as she does as part of Destiny’s Child (4), she only has one album with multiple No. 1s: 2003’s Dangerously in Love, with “Crazy in Love” (feat. Jay-Z) and “Baby Boy” (feat. Sean Paul). That album’s follow-up, 2006’s B’Day, does include a pair of No. 1s — “Irreplaceable” and the Slim Thug- and Bun B-featuring “Check on It” — on some international editions, but “Check” was not included on its original U.S. tracklist.
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Drake (2)
Scorpion (2018): “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What,” “In My Feelings”
For All the Dogs (2023): “Slime You Out” (feat. SZA), “First Person Shooter” (feat. J. Cole)
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Ariana Grande (2)
Thank U, Next (2019): “Thank U, Next,” “7 Rings”
Eternal Sunshine (2024): “Yes, And?,” “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”
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KC and the Sunshine Band (2)
KC and the Sunshine Band (1975): “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way (I Like It)”
Part 3 (1976): “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty,” “I’m Your Boogie Man”
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Post Malone (2)
Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018): “Rockstar” (feat. 21 Savage), “Psycho” (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
Hollywood’s Bleeding (2020): “Sunflower – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (with Swae Lee), “Circles”
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Bruno Mars (2)
Doo-Wops and Hooligans (2010): “Just the Way You Are,” “Grenade”
Unorthodox Jukebox (2012): “Locked Out of Heaven,” “When I Was Your Man”
Notes: Mars will have the opportunity to add a third multi-No. 1 album to his tally in the coming weeks with the Feb. 27 release of new album The Romantic — which has already spawned one Hot 100-topper with lead single “I Just Might.”
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Katy Perry (2)
Teenage Dream (2010): “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
Prism (2014): “Roar,” “Dark Horse” (feat. Juicy J)
Notes: In 2011, Teenage Dream became the first album since Michael Jackson’s Bad to generate five Hot 100 No. 1s. (“Part of Me,” released on the album’s The Complete Confection reissue, also topped the chart the next year.) The version of “E.T.” released on Teenage Dream was solo, but contributed to the totals of the chart-topping remix version with Ye, the artist then known as Kanye West.
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Rihanna (2)
Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded (2008): “Take a Bow,” “Disturbia”
Loud (2010): “Only Girl (In the World),” “What’s My Name” (feat. Drake), “S&M” (feat. Britney Spears)
Notes: The original Good Girl Gone Bad album, released in 2007, spawned a No. 1 hit in the Jay-Z-featuring “Umbrella” and three more top 15 hits, but no additional No. 1s. The next year’s Reloaded reissue tacked on three new songs, two of which went to No. 1 in “Take a Bow” and “Disturbia.” (“S&M” was originally included on Loud in a solo version.)
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Taylor Swift (2)
1989 (2014): “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
The Life of a Showgirl (2025): “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Opalite”
Notes: With nearly 11 years separating them, Swift’s pair of multi-No. 1 albums marks the longest gap in between such sets on this list. Between the two, Swift managed eight No. 1 hits, all of which appear on separate albums — including the 2023 Taylor’s Version re-recording of her first multi-No. 1 album, 1989, which scored a Hot 100-topper with its “From the Vault” track “Is It Over Now?”
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TLC (2)
CrazySexyCool (1994): “Creep,” “Waterfalls”
FanMail (1999): “No Scrubs,” “Unpretty”
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Usher (2)
8701 (2001): “U Remind Me,” “U Got It Bad”
Confessions (2004): “Yeah!” (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris), “Burn,” “Confessions Part II”
Notes: “My Boo,” a fourth Confessions-era No. 1 alongside Alicia Keys, was released on the album’s Special Edition reissue.
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Stevie Wonder (2)
Talking Book (1971): “Superstition,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
Songs in the Key of Life (1976): “I Wish,” “Sir Duke”
