Bad Blood Blasts To No.1

On the back of a full charting week with Billboard, the 4th single of the smash hit record "1989", it was announced today that 'Bad Blood" shoots up 53-1 to land on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for its first week and dethroning Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" in what was a very tight race to the top.

"Bad Blood" started its rise to the top with the music video premier on the Billboard Music Awards on May 17th. While the song sat at No. 53 on last weeks chart after a half charting week (chart is renewed on wednesdays), it shot up to No.1 after a full charting week. On the Digital Songs chart "Bad Blood" jumps from No.26 to No.1 with 385k downloads in the week ending May 24th,  while on the Streaming Songs chart the song sits at No.3 with 18.1 Mil US streams with the majority coming from Vevo/youtube clicks. On the Radio Songs chart a 109% increase to 457 Mil all format audience impressions cause "Bad Blood to jump up to No. 15 from No. 46.

As quoted from the Billboard Article, "Bad Blood" took out all 3 top gainer awards for the week dated June 6th.

"The track sweeps the Hot 100's three top gainer awards, for digital sales, streaming and airplay, marking the first song to so triple up since Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, earned all three honors on the Jan. 3 chart."

Having a @billboard Hot 100 #1 with @kendricklamar is too exciting for me to even process. LOOK WHAT YOU GUYS DID. http://t.co/TXaY8DJka2

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 27, 2015

Just a few of the 13 facts Billboard posted are below while the rest can be found in the article above.

1: "Bad Blood" is just Taylor's fourth Hot 100 No. 1, following "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (three weeks at No. 1, 2012), "Shake It Off" (four, 2014) and "Blank Space" (seven, 2014-15).

2: "1989" is the first album since Adele's last album in 2011 to gain 3 No.1 Hot 100 chart toppers from a single album.

3: The 53-1 jump for "Blood" on the Hot 100 is the greatest to the top since Swift's "Together" hurtled 72-1 in 2012, following its first week of sales (after the song had first charted from early airplay).

"Bad Blood" also broke the Vevo record 24 hrs after its release, becoming the most viewed video of all time within a 24hr window. The record number is 20.1 Mil views in 24hrs. This broke the previous record set in August 2014 when one of Nicki Minaj's videos was released.

FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW YOU BROKE THE VEVO WORLD RECORD THANK YOU http://t.co/XTwKCWR4x9 #24hrVevoRecord #BadBloodMusicVideo

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 21, 2015

Having talked all about "Bad Blood" I thought I better include the video again to wrap up as its such an epic video.

Billboard Music Awards 2015 / Bad Blood Music Video Premier

The Billboard Music Awards was a big night for Taylor in 2015. She started off the night with the premier of her new music video for Bad Blood and then took home the first award of the night.

The Bad Blood video was a star studded affair and an action packed video with a surprise twist, Kendrick Lamar. Taylor worked with Kendrick Lamar to produce a rap edit of Bad Blood which the music video plays too. The cast included Selena Gomez, Ellie Goulding, Ellen Pompeo, Zendaya, Karlie Kloss, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Mariska Hargitay, Martha Hunt, Jessica Alba, Serayah, Lena Dunham, Kendrick Lamar, Hailee Steinfeld, Gigi Hadid, Hayley Williams and Lily Aldridge.

Bad Blood started the Billboard Music Awards with the video and awards being able to be streamed in 172 countries across 6 continents. The storyline of the video seems to me to be a little open to interpretation but I see it as you might be betrayed by a good friend and it will hurt but there will be someone there to help you pick up the pieces and fight with you. 

Check out the full offical video of Bad Blood below. 

The Bad Blood video was not the only star of the night. Taylor picked up a whooping 8 Billboard Music Awards and in the process, it made her the most awarded single artist in Billboard history. 

Taylor was nominated for a total of 14 awards and picked up 8 of them as listed below:
- Top Artist
- Top Female Artist
- Top Billboard 200 Artist
- Top Hot 100 Artist
- Top Digital Songs Artist
- Top Billboard 200 Album "1989"
- Top Streaming Song (Video) "Shake It Off"
- Billboard Chart Achievement Award

Taylor needed a total of 7 wins tonight to bring her level with Garth Brooks for the most Billboard Music Awards wins with a total of 19 wins. By picking up 8 Billboard Awards tonight, it makes her the most awarded single artist with 20 awards total. A total of 20 awards follows the 8 awards she received in 2013, 1 in 2012 and 3 in 2011. I thought something may have been presented as a follow up for 2014 Billboard woman of the year but I guess that was covered in the ceremony back on Dec. 12th 2014.

You can see Taylor receiving her awards for Billboard 200 Artist, Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Billboard Chart Achievement Award below.

Taylor with her 8 awards tonight in the press room backstage post show.

Congratulations Taylor on all your awards tonight.Congratulations to Austin on his graduation today. All the best for the US/Europe legs of the 1989 Tour and I will see you in Sydney.

Important: Going on Hiatus

Hey guys,

I'm not sure how many people actually read this blog on a regular basis when I post but I have something important you all should know to explain the next 7 months approx.

I'm attending the 1989 tour in Sydney Australia on November 28th and me along with the friend I am going with are both going to avoid all spoilers until we see the show in person.

For us that means we are not going to be on twitter at all during the next 7 months aside from coming online for the Billboard Music Awards in a few weeks time. We will be avoiding surfing Tumblr where there will be lots of photos and videos of the tour, we won't be finding out who any special guest performers are and we don't want to know the set list either.

I followed the RED Tour heavily on twitter and for this tour I want a completely different experience of not knowing anything and this is the only way for me to do so.

I will still be checking Taylor's tweets and should she post anything important that I feel needs to be blogged about, I will blog about it.

If you need me or want to contact me, I will still be checking my direct messages on twitter, but just not my timeline. Message me on here and I will reply. If you have my facebook, contact me there.

Love you guys and thanks for reading my blog,
I will be back in November.
Sam

Tour Time, Its Nearly Here

As Taylor gets ready to jet set across the world to Japan to kick start her 1989 world tour with 2 dates at the Tokyo Dome next week, She has been a very busy girl in the last week as the final tour rehearsals have wrapped up and its time to hit the road.

So, What has Taylor got up to in the last week? She has been photographed hanging out with all the new dancers for the 1989 tour which include 3 returning dancers from the RED Tour Mason Cutler, Mark Villaver and Christian Henderson. You can find all the various photos that the dancers posted HERE.

Baby, we're the New Romantics... @toshi_ateamlv @giuseppegiofre @austinspacy @cd_henderson @owensc18 @markvillaver @jakekodish @maho_udo @staronstage @mase_cut @remibakkar @nolanpdilla

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 27, 2015 at 2:58pm PDT

Taylor has also done some interviews with various places prior to commencing her world tour including E!, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and ExtraTV.
Taylor talked about everything from going back out on tour and how she changes things up to have each tour bigger and better than the last tour, just like she does with the albums to writing her 6th album to Kayne West and all the ideas he has. Taylor also confirmed that although there has been speculation, she has not actually been in the studio with West at this stage. Taylor explained her sheep instagram video with Access Hollywood and spoke about special guests with ExtraTV.
All full videos of the interviews can be found below.

Its not just interviews Taylor has been doing lately, she has won awards at both the Shorty awards and the Radio Disney awards. The Shorty awards recognise the best of what is on social media and Taylor was given Singer of the Year.

The Radio Disney awards gave her the award for Best Song To Dance To for "Shake It Off"

Billboard have just announced that Taylor is at the top of the Billboard Artist 100 chart for the 24th straight week on the chart dated May 9th. Taylor is now in record extending mode after already having a record for being at the top for 23 weeks. Her position at the top of the chart which is up by 3% is helped by the Shorty award last week, the rumoured dating between her and Calvin Harris and the start of the 1989 world tour next week. Full Article HERE.

Good Luck for the start of the 1989 Tour Taylor.