USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' ranks still at no.2
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Taylor Swift's “Patient Zero” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, a week after it launched at No. 1, becoming her 16th career leader. The single is one of four new cuts on the

deluxe version, released Sept. 25, of Swift’s 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl. “Patient Zero,” on Republic Records, totaled 17.4 million official streams (down 50% week over week), 26.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 9%), 8,000 downloads sold (down 88%) and 134,000 first-week copies sold on CD in the U.S. Oct. 2-8. The track dips to No. 2 in its second week on the Streaming Songs chart; rises 16-15 on Radio Songs; and adds a second week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. “Patient Zero” gives Swift a 51st week career week atop the Hot 100, combining all her chart-toppers. She solely claims the fifth-highest total in the chart’s 68-year history. Drake and Don Toliver’s “Solar Eclipse” debuts at No. 5 on the Hot 100 with 15.1 million streams, 712,000 in airplay audience and 1,000 sold in its first week. The track marks Drake’s record-extending 91st career top 10, dating to his first, “Best I Ever Had,” in 2009. Toliver notches his second Hot 100

top 10, and first as a lead artist. Internet Money and Gunna’s “Lemonade,” featuring Toliver and NAV, hit No. 6 in November 2020. Adéla ascends to her first Hot 100 top 10 as “Nicole Kidman” rolls 12-9. The song tallied 13.6 million streams (up 2%), 3 million in radio reach (up 100%) and 1,000 sold (up 3%) in the tracking week. In September, the song became the rising singer-songwriter and dancer’s first Hot 100 entry; her “Ain’t in LA” continues in the top 30, after reaching No. 27. Both are from her first LP, Prima, which last month debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds at No. 2 following its record 24 weeks atop the Hot 100. Stella Lefty’s “Boston” rebounds 6-3 on the Hot 100 and Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” bumps 7-4, with both having hit No. 2. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” is up 10-6 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 5. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” lifts a spot (8-7) on the Hot 100, after it led in its debut week in June, as does Olivia Rodrigo’s “Stupid Song” (9-8), after peaking at No. 3. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Karol G’s “BbY WOW,” with Judeline and rusowsky, returns to the region (11-10), after reaching No. 6. Taylor Swift's’s The Life of a Showgirl spends a 14th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Oct. 17), earning 93,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 8 (down 46%), according to Luminate. The set jumped back to the top of the list a week ago, vaulting 21-1, after it was reissued in a deluxe edition on Sept. 25 with four previously unreleased songs, including the Billboard Hot 100-topper “Patient Zero.” With a 14th week in the lead for The Life of a Showgirl, Swift adds a milestone 100th career week at No. 1 on the chart across her 15 No. 1s, extending her record among soloists. Elvis Presley has the second-most weeks at No. 1 among soloists, with 67. The total encompasses her 15 No. 1 albums; she is tied with Drake for the most among soloists. Only The Beatles have more weeks at No. 1 (132) and more No. 1 albums (19) among all artists. The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956. Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 65,000 (down 52%, equaling 66.64 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it falls 1-2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 27,000 (up 28%; it moves 5-2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the remaining sum (down 90%). Drake’s Habibti returns to its peak position, as it flies 116-2 after it was reissued with four additional songs on Oct. 2. The set earned 71,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (up 506%), with nearly 70,000 of that sum driven by SEA activity (up 497%). The expanded edition of the album, dubbed Habibti (Fomo), includes the added tracks “Solar Eclipse” (with Don Toliver), “Quebec,” “Cold Shoulder” (with Toliver and Yebba) and “Classic PT2.” All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes. Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love falls a spot to No. 3 on the latest Billboard 200 with 66,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%). The Beatles’ former No. 1 Rubber Soul returns to the Billboard 200, re-entering at No. 4 after its expansive reissue on Oct. 2 across an array of formats and editions. The album, which topped the chart for six weeks in 1966, has been absent from the ranking for more than a decade. It was last on the chart dated Jan. 16, 2016, and last in the top 10 on the April 9, 1966-dated chart. The album includes familiar favorites like “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” “Michelle” and “In My Life.” In the latest tracking week, Rubber Soul earned 58,000 equivalent album units (up 1,626%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 50,000 (up from a negligible sum in the week previous, it reenters at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 7.4 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; up 144%) and TEA units comprise the remainder (up 691%). With 58,000 units earned, and 50,000 copies sold, Rubber Soul lands the band its best week by units and pure sales in seven years. The Fab Four last notched a larger week by units and sales when Abbey Road garnered 81,000 units, with 70,000 of that in pure sales, on the Oct. 12, 2019-dated chart following its similar deluxe reissue. With Rubber Soul re-entering at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, The Beatles score their highest rank on the chart since the Nov. 12, 2022-dated list, when Revolver reentered at No. 4 after its own deluxe reissue. Three former No. 1s are next up on the latest Billboard 200: Morgan Wallen’s The the Problem falls 4-5 (55,000 equivalent album units earned, down 2%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion dips 3-6 (54,000, down 7%); and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide drops 5-7 (46,000, up 2%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 6-8 (35,000, down 1%) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is a non-mover at No. 9 (33,000, up less than 1%). Closing out the latest top 10 is Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine, which rises 159-10 after it was reissued on Oct. 2 for its 10th anniversary with three additional tracks. The set debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Oct. 8, 2016-dated chart. In the latest tracking week, The Divine Feminine earned 32,000 equivalent album units (up 218%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 18,000 (up 2,995%, it reenters at No. 4 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 14,000 (equaling 14.68 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sienna Spiro remians at the runner-up slot
Monday, October 12, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Taylor Swift has the No.1 single for the 22nd time in her career, and for the second week in a row, with Patient Zero remaining in pole position. It wasn’t all plain sailing for Swift, however: in common with the three other tracks on the new Encore edition of her album, The Life Of A Showgirl, Patient Zero suffered a

dip in consumption week-on-week, and would have been unable to fight off an attempt to retake the title by former incumbent, Great Expectation by Sienna Spiro without CD sales. Even with them, Patient Zero’s consumption was off 18.06% to 38,455 units (10,940 CDs, 1,241 digital downloads and 26,274 sales-equivalent streams), and its lead over Great Expectation – at a lofty 65.29% last week – shrinks to 33.23% as the latter track, while holding at No.2, increases its own consumption by 1.53% to a best-yet 28,864 units. The other new tracks from The Life Of A Showgirl perform less well – Babylon moves 4-28 (10,210 sales), while Cleveland – which debuted at No.3 last week – is now ‘starred-out’ (9,562 sales), alongside the set’s fourth new track, Pink Clouding (9,051 sales), their weekly tallies falling 59.01%, 62.29% and 61.84%, respectively. Their decline in big enough for Swift’s earlier chart-topper, The Fate Of Ophelia – which was itself starred-out last week – to

re-enter at No.17 under primary artist rules, even as its own consumption dips 26.55% week-on-week to 13,096 units. It is, incidentally, a record 30th week in a row that the No.1 has had female participation, with six solo No.1 and the Sam Fender & Olivia Dean blockbuster Rein Me In keeping male-only records off the top since Harry Styles’ American Girls was No.1 in March. Babydoll (6-3, 28,060 sales) by Jamie Miller and Stop The Wedding! (10-4, 25,662 sales) by Ashe surge to new peaks. Babydoll, incidentally, has now overtaken the No.5 peak scaled in 2023 by Dominic Fike’s completely different song of the same name. The rest of the Top 10: Choosin’ Texas (5-5, 22,701 sales) by Ella Langley, Boston (7-6, 22,321 sales) by Stella Lefty, The Cure (8-7, 20,717 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Nicole Kidman (9-8, 20,080 sales) by Adéla, Training Season (11-9, 18,007 sales) by Dua Lipa and, returning to peak, My Body Isn’t Ready (13-10, 17,460 sales) by Sombr. Overall singles consumption is up 1.10% week-on-week to 29,926,988 units, 2.70% below same week 2025 sales of 30,756,739 units. Paid-for sales are down 3.04% week-on-week at 254,199, 4.01% below same week 2025 sales of 267,595. Leadership of the album chart changes for the 15th week in a row, with melodic Manchester/Stockport indie quintet Blossoms’ sixth studio album, Songs From The Wedding Cake, delivering their seventh top five entry and fifth No.1 (fourth consecutive) on first week consumption of 26,713 units (14,939 CDs, 8,387 vinyl albums, 640 cassettes, 1,152 digital downloads and 1,595 sales-equivalent streams). Trailing The Beatles’ newly refurbished Rubber Soul until Thursday’s sales flashes, Blossoms pulled it out of the bag by achieving their biggest ever weekly sale. Previously, Blossoms’ eponymous debut achieved consumption of 20,987 units when topping the chart in August 2016; follow-up Cool Like You debuted and peaked at No.4 on consumption of 19,138 units in May 2018; Foolish Loving Spaces delivered their previous highest first week sales opening atop the chart on consumption of 22,489 units in February 2020; Blossoms In Isolation/Live From The Plaza Theatre sold 7,477 copies debuting and peaking at No.5 in October 2020; Ribbon Around The Bomb attracted their lowest first week tally of 14,362 as it opened at No.1 in May 2022; and Gary polled 21,884 units debuting at No.1 in September 2024. Comprising 33-year-old guitarist/lead vocalist Tom Ogden, 35-year-old bassist Charlie Salt, 29-year-old lead guitarist Josh Dewhurst, 32-year-old keyboards player Myles Kellock and 33-year-old drummer Joe Donovan since their 2013 formation, Blossoms were initially with EMI but released Gary on their own Odd Sk Recordings label, and their latest on Distiller, a 16-year-old London indie label whose previous highest charting set was Heatwave In The Cold North, No.6 for Reverend & The Makers in 2023. Vanquished on what would have been John Lennon’s 86th birthday, and resuming its chart career at No.2 (24,268 sales), Rubber Soul was in line to become the third Beatles album to reach No.1 in an expanded edition (after Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road), and the oldest album by any act to top the chart. No.1 for eight weeks when first released in 1965, it returned to the chart briefly in 1987, 1997, 1998 and, most recently, in 2009, when it re-entered at No.10, as one of an unprecedented 16 albums in the Top 75 for the group, after their catalogue was released in remastered editions, simultaneous with the initial release of The Beatles In Stereo and The Beatles In Mono box sets. Blossoms’ Manchester compatriot, 63-year-old guitarist Johnny Marr occupied a top three placing in all of the week’s sales flashes with his fifth solo studio album, The Art Of Everything. It dipped slightly in the final analysis, debuting at No.5 (8,894 sales) a notch below his solo peak, set by his last album, Fever Dreams Parts 1-4, in 2022. All five of Marr’s solo studio albums have made the Top 10, while his former Smiths colleague Morrissey has had 14 in a row. All four Smiths albums also made the Top 10, which means the bitterly estranged pair have never released anything that fell short of the top tier. The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (4-3, 11,281 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (5-4, 9,768 sales) by Michael Jackson, Visitor (8-6, 8,537 sales) by Sienna Spiro, The Art Of Loving (7-7, 8,368 sales) by Olivia Dean, The Life Of A Showgirl (1-8, 7,811 sales) by Taylor Swift, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (10-9, 7,147 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and Time Flies 1994-2009 (6-10, 6,866 sales) by Oasis. Overall album sales are up 0.23% week-on-week to 2,460,645 units, 17.36% below same week 2025 sales of 2,942,015. Physical product accounts for 319,579 sales, 12.99% of the total.