Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Is No. 1 Song On Billboard Hot 100, Topples Wiz Khalifa's 'Furious 7' Soundtrack 'See You Again'

Taylor Swift is on cloud nine as her song “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, has earned her fourth number one hit at the Billboard Hot 100. Swift's multi-starrer video surpassed Wiz Khalifa's “Furious 7” soundtrack "See You Again" to bag the No. 1 spot at the charts. "See You Again" spent six weeks at the top spot.

The music video of “Bad Blood” also premiered on the Billboard Music Awards, which aired May 17 on ABC. The music video starred Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Kendrick Lamar, Serayah McNeill, Gigi Hadid, Ellie Goulding, Martha Hunt, Cara Delevigne, Zendaya Coleman, Hayley Williams, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Aldridge, Karlie Kloss, Jessica Alba, Mariska Hargitay & Ellen Pompeo and Cindy Crawford in various avatars. It broke the Vevo World Record for maximum number of hits in 24 hours. The multi-starrer video got 20.1 million views on the very first day of its release.

"Bad Blood," moved from No. 53 spot to No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 and shoots “26-1 on Digital Songs with 385,000 downloads sold (up 721 percent) in the week ending May 24,” according to Nielsen Music. Billboard also added that the dynamic song “ vaults onto the Streaming Songs chart at No. 3 with 18.1 million U.S. streams, with 99 percent of its streaming activity from Vevo on YouTube clicks of its official video.”

Swift's previous No.1 songs on Billboard Hot 100 are --"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, which stayed at No. 1 spot for three in 2012; "Shake It Off" that spent four weeks at No.1 spot in 2014, and "Blank Space" that spent a whopping seven weeks being the No.1 song in 2014-15.

Swift, who took home eight Billboard Music Awards in 2015, has also become the youngest women celebrity to make it to the Forbes ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ list. With a net worth of U.S. $200 Million, the singer and songwriter bagged the No. 64 position on the Forbes' list. Fellow musician Madonna is at No. 28, and Beyoncé takes the No. 49 spot.

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