Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ Adds Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Taylor Swift ’s “Patient Zero” leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a third total and consecutive week, having debuted as her 16th career No.
1.
The single is one of four new cuts on the deluxe version, released Sept.
25, of Swift’s 2025 album, The Life of a Showgirl .
Meanwhile, Dominic Fike earns his first Hot 100 top 10 as the resurgent “Babydoll” jumps three spots to No.
10.
Originally released in 2018, the song entered the chart in February.
In April, it became a top three hit on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.
U.S.; it has since remained in the top 40 of both charts continuously.
Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations.
All charts dated Oct.
24, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Oct.
20.
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