Taylor Swift Scores Her 12th Streaming Songs No. 1 With ‘Patient Zero’
Swift is one of two acts to boast double-digit No. 1s on the chart.
Taylor Swift claimed her 12th No. 1 spot on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart with her song "Patient Zero," topping the chart for the week ending October 10. The track, released as one of four bonus tracks from Swift's 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl, garnered 34.5 million chart-eligible streams in the U.S., the highest weekly total since Drake's "Janice STFU" (40.7 million) and "Ran to Atlanta" (38.5 million) debuted in May.
This makes "Patient Zero" Swift's second new entry at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart in 2026 and her third overall. The previous No. 1s were "The Fate of Ophelia" (January 2025) and "I Knew It, I Knew You" (June 2025). Swift, who first reached No. 1 in the Streaming Songs category in November 2014 with "Shake It Off," is tied for the most No. 1s in this category's 13-year history, alongside Drake.
With 41 top fives and 73 top 10s on the Streaming Songs chart, Swift sits second all-time, behind Drake's 70 top fives. The song's success also propelled "Patient Zero" to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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