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Taylor Swift performs onstage during MTV s Total Request Live on June 16, 2008 at the MTV Times Square Studios in New York City.
On Nov. 11, 2008, a then-18-year-old Taylor Swift released her blockbuster sophomore album
Fearless, which would go on to earn the country-pop singer her first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, where it spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at the top.
Fearless also led
Billboard s Top Country Albums tally for 35 weeks, the second-longest run by a woman and the fifth-lengthiest overall. It became the best-selling album of 2009, gained diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and scored Swift her first album of the year win at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Fearless. The new take is from her forthcoming re-recording of the album,
Fearless (Taylor s Version). (Re-recordings of older songs or albums are treated separately from their originals, with independent chart histories for each version.) Love Story (Taylor s Version) is the second single ever to top Hot Country Songs in separate forms, after Dolly Parton s iconic I Will Always Love You led in 1974 and, in a second take, in 1982.
On the Hot 100, Swift s new entry is the latest to chart more than once as re-recorded in-studio by an artist that previously made it a hit.
Here s a look at 20 other memorable such singles, listed chronologically by their updated versions (with thanks to the invaluable assistance of Paul Haney from Joel Whitburn s Record Research).
Olivia Rodrigo boasts the biggest song in the world for a sixth week, as "Drivers License" holds atop the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts.