The Bieber- and Swift-ridden charts become the default selection because curating a playlist of tunes you actually love is too much like hard work.
And although it does not mean Mr. Crosby is about to pull even with Ms. Swift on the charts, it does suggest a shift in listener behavior.
Charting the swift rise of cyberspace renegade Julian Assange and his secrecy-busting WikiLeaks website, the film follows a similar template to that of Facebook movie The Social Network.
How long Ms. Swift can dominate the chart, though, is unclear.
The Taliban's power grabs in Afghanistan and Pakistan are a reminder of why the White House must chart a swift exit from Iraq so it can focus on the real front in the war on terror.
It became a fourth consecutive top ten single for Swift on the United States' chart Hot Country Songs and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
With the addition of "Mine", Swift had a total of 11 songs charting in one week, making Swift the female act to have the most songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week.
Though perhaps too artfully countrified in its vocal accents and in instrumental arrangements heavy on fiddle and hammered dulcimer, it may offer the greatest popular appeal, as reflected in its swift ascent to the Billboard charts.
By anyone's standards, 18 months from first picking up a guitar to reaching the top of the charts is pretty swift going, and it hasn't happened without Nash attracting a degree of opprobrium.
By February 13, Billboard reported that the single was number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart One of Swift's earliest musical memories is listening to her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Finlay (née Moehlenkamp), sing at church.
With Taylor Swift charting at number two, Swift became the first artist to hold the first two positions on Top Country Albums since LeAnn Rimes charted in 1997 with Blue (1996) and Unchained Melody: The Early Years (1997).
