The Boys Of Boston - Shake It Off

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RELATED: Swift set another chart record this week.

Taylor Swift this week becomes the first female solo artist to replace herself at #1 on the Hot 100. Her new hit, “Blank Space,” leaps from #13 to #1, displacing “Shake It Off,” which held the top spot for four non-consecutive weeks. Swift is the first act to replace itself at #1 since the Black Eyed Peas, which did the trick in July 2009 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.” Swift is the 11th artist to replace itself at #1 since 1955 (which predates the inception of the Hot 100 in 1958). She’s the seventh solo artist to achieve the feat, but just the second solo artist to do it with two records that were entirely solo (no collaborations). The first to do this entirely on his own was Elvis Presley, who scored in October 1956 with the double-listed “Hound Dog”/”Don’t Be Cruel” and “Love Me Tender.”

Donna Summer almost did it 1979 when the #1 runs of Hot Stuff and Bad Girls were separated by Anita Ward's Ring My Bell.