Taylor Swift Dances to Her Record-Extending 15th Pop Airplay Chart No. 1 With ‘Opalite’

Taylor Swift makes her own sunshine once more atop Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, adding her record-extending 15th leader as “Opalite” lifts two spots to the top of the Feb. 28-dated list.

Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and Rihanna share the second-most Pop Airplay No. 1s, 11 each.

Here’s a recap of Swift’s 15 No. 1s on Pop Airplay, which measures songs’ weekly plays, as tabulated by Mediabase and provided to Billboard by Luminate, on 150 U.S. mainstream top 40 radio stations. (The chart began in October 1992.)

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Swift also extends her total to a record 49 weeks atop Pop Airplay across all her No. 1s. With “The Fate of Ophelia,” she passed Katy Perry (47), while Mariah Carey ranks third (45).

Both “Opalite” and “The Fate of Ophelia” are from Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl, which arrived with a record-shattering 4.002 million equivalent-album units last October. The set is Swift’s fourth to generate multiple No. 1s at the format, following Midnights (“Anti-Hero” and “Karma”), Reputation (“Look What You Made Me Do” and “Delicate”) and 1989 (“Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” and “Wildest Dreams”).

“Opalite” concurrently leaps three spots to No. 1 on Adult Pop Airplay, which reflects plays on nearly adult top 40 reporters, where Swift ties Maroon 5 for the most leaders, 15 each. P!nk ranks third with 10 No. 1s on the ranking (which began in Billboard’s pages in March 1996).

With “The Fate of Ophelia” having ruled Adult Pop Airplay for four weeks, The Life of a Showgirl becomes Swift’s third album to spin off at least two No. 1s on the chart, after Midnights and 1989.

Here’s a rundown of Swift’s 15 Adult Pop Airplay No. 1s.

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All charts dated Feb. 28 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Feb. 24.