After her performance on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (Aug. 24), Taylor Swift's latest "Shake It Off" debuts onto the Billboard chart at no.1 on its first week of availability.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Shake It Off" arrives with 544,000 first-week downloads sold in the week ending Aug. 24; making it Taylor Swift's second no.1 single in the US. Her first no.1 song is "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
"Shake It Off" is the first single off her fifth studio album called "1989" which is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2014.
Nicki Minaj also rocketed to no.2 with her "Anaconda."
Here are this week's most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions and streaming activity data from online music sources. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time.
Top 10 songs for the week of September 06, 2014
01 Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
02 Anaconda - Nicki Minaj
03 All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor
04 Stay With Me - Sam Smith
05 Rude - MAGIC!
06 Black Widow - Iggy Azalea Featuring Rita Ora
07 Break Free - Ariana Granbe Featuring Zedd
08 Chandelier - Sia
09 Bang Bang - Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
10 Am I Wrong - Nico & Vinz
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