Olivia Dean and Leon Thomas hit top 10 on the pop chart, joining an exclusive club
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We're in week three of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl era, chart-wise, and that's not enough time to dislodge the album — or its lead single, "The Fate of Ophelia" — from the top of the Billboard rankings. But, while it still yields four of the week's top 10 songs, the album is starting to see its deeper cuts slide down to make room for fresh blood. That helps two artists, Olivia Dean and Leon Thomas, land in the Hot 100's top 10 for the first time in their careers. But the singles chart remains crowded and for the second week running there isn't a single hip-hop songin the top 40. That hadn't happened since 1990.
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Two weeks ago, thanks to a massive surge of first-week streaming, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl locked down the entire top 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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