{"id":142549,"date":"2020-08-01T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=142549"},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:48:00","slug":"cardigan-exile-the-1-august-betty-were-taylor-swifts-top-folklore-songs-on-youtube-this-week-preliminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2020\/08\/01\/cardigan-exile-the-1-august-betty-were-taylor-swifts-top-folklore-songs-on-youtube-this-week-preliminary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cardigan,&#8221; &#8220;Exile,&#8221; &#8220;The 1,&#8221; &#8220;August,&#8221; &#8220;Betty&#8221; Were Taylor Swift&#8217;s Top &#8220;Folklore&#8221; Songs On YouTube This Week (Preliminary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of new album &#8220;folklore&#8221; fueled by a big weekly YouTube gain for Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary data from YouTube**, Swift received 166 million global plays during the July 24-30 tracking period. The figure more than triples her recent weekly average on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Insofar as it is the first mainstream single <i>and<\/i> received an official video, &#8220;cardigan&#8221; by far ranked as Swift&#8217;s top song for the week. YouTube credits &#8220;cardigan&#8221; with 36.3 million views, accounting for the video, as well as other eligible uploads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;exile (featuring Bon Iver)&#8221; grabs #2 with 12.7 million views, while fellow &#8220;folklore&#8221; song &#8220;the 1&#8221; earns #3 with 8.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Swift&#8217;s enduring hit &#8220;Love Story&#8221; takes the #4 position, while &#8220;folklore&#8221; track &#8220;august&#8221; earns #5 with 5.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You Belong With Me,&#8221; another earlier Swift hit, earns #6 on the weekly chart. &#8220;Folklore&#8221; tracks then come back into play, with &#8220;betty&#8221; (#7, 5.0 million) and &#8220;my tears ricochet&#8221; (#8, 4.9 million) earning the next two spots. Other &#8220;folklore&#8221; tracks appear as follows:<\/p>\n<p>the last great american dynasty &#8211; 4.7 million (#7 for folklore, #10 overall)<br \/>\ninvisible string &#8211; 3.7 million (#8 for folklore, #11 overall)<br \/>\nthis is me trying &#8211; 3.5 million (#9 for folklore, #12 overall)<br \/>\nmirrorball &#8211; 3.4 million (#10 for folklore, #13 overall)<br \/>\nseven &#8211; 3.2 million (#11 for folklore, #16 overall)<br \/>\nhoax &#8211; 3.0 million (#12 for folklore, #17 overall)<br \/>\nillicit affairs &#8211; 3.0 million (#13 for folklore, #19 overall)<br \/>\nmad woman &#8211; 3.0 million (#14 for folklore, #20 overall)<\/p>\n<p>Viewership counts for &#8220;peace&#8221; and &#8220;epiphany&#8221; are not available at press time, as they did not make Swift&#8217;s weekly Top 20.<\/p>\n<p><em>**Editor&#8217;s Note: Typically published on Saturday nights, the official YouTube chart numbers may differ slightly from the preliminary data in this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fueled by its official video, &#8220;cardigan&#8221; led the way.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[13942,13939,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Cardigan,&quot; &quot;Exile,&quot; &quot;The 1,&quot; &quot;August,&quot; &quot;Betty&quot; Were Taylor Swift&#039;s Top &quot;Folklore&quot; Songs On YouTube This Week (Preliminary)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The release of new album &quot;folklore&quot; fueled by a big weekly YouTube gain for Taylor Swift. 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