{"id":2109543,"date":"2025-10-23T00:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2109543"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:49:19","slug":"brandi-carlile-defeats-taylor-swift-places-3-new-songs-at-the-top-of-itunes-surpassing-ophelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brandi-carlile-defeats-taylor-swift-places-3-new-songs-at-the-top-of-itunes-surpassing-ophelia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandi Carlile Defeats Taylor Swift, Places 3 New Songs at the Top of iTunes Surpassing &#8220;Ophelia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_116\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Brandi Carlile has hit the brass ring.<\/p>\n<p>The country pop star released two new singles today from new album and they\u2019ve already topped Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>Carlile has posted three songs \u2014 \u201cChurch &amp; State,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cA War with Time,\u201d and \u201cReturning to Myself\u201d to the top of iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve knocked Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d to number 4.<\/p>\n<p>Carlile\u2019s first album in four years, \u201cReturning to Myself,\u201d drops Thursday night. She and Elton John are anticipating some Grammy nominations soon for their album, \u201cWho Believes in Angels?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOphelia\u201d comes from Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d album, which has sold 4.4 million copies. But Swift hasn\u2019t allowed any singles for downloading on iTunes \u2014 yet \u2014 so there\u2019s no sign of a follow up to \u201cOphelia.\u201d Yet. \u201cOphelia\u201d remains the top streaming single on Spotify.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h4>Donate to Showbiz411.com<\/h4>\n<p>Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what&#8217;s going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.<br \/>Thank you<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.showbiz411.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandi Carlile has hit the brass ring. The country pop star released two new singles today from new album and they\u2019ve already topped Taylor Swift. Carlile has posted three songs \u2014 \u201cChurch &amp; State,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cA War with Time,\u201d and \u201cReturning to Myself\u201d to the top of iTunes. 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