Washington (EFE).- American singer Taylor Swift’s new album, ‘Tortured Poets Department’, reached number 1 on the Billboard 200 sales list, breaking musical records as one of the artists who has placed the most albums on the chart. top”, only surpassed by The Beatles.
This latest Swift release, which was released on April 19, has already accumulated 2.61 million “equivalent units,” a measure that includes physical album sales along with digital downloads, as reported by Billboard magazine.
With these figures, Taylor Swift has already managed to position 14 albums at number 1 on the list, a record only equaled by rapper Jay-Z and surpassed by the legendary British group The Beatles.
The ambitious project of ‘Tortured Poets Department’ includes a deluxe edition with 31 songs, announced by the singer herself two hours after the original release, with 17 pieces.
The album has also managed to break records in vinyl sales, with more than 700,000 copies purchased by its fans and making the album the best-selling album in this format in history.
Swift will begin the European leg of her ‘The Eras Tour’ in Paris on May 9, 10, 11 and 12. There will be fifty performances until the end on August 20 at Wembley Stadium in London, with stops such as those on May 29 and 30 at the renovated Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid.
