It was to be expected that Taylor Swift would rock her new work, The Tortured Poets Department, but The figures that this double album of 31 songs is achieving are absolutely scandalous.
The singer born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, has placed the 16 songs on side A of the album in the top 16 of Spotify’s Global Top 50while the entire B side has managed to sneak into the same list, between positions 20 and 42.
All the songs also exceed 4 million listens, being Fortnightthe opening song in which he collaborates with Post Malone, the one that has been played the most times, over 25 million times. It is the most listened to song in a single day in the history of the platform. streaming.
Taylor Swift already held a good number of records in her career. With his concert tour The Eras Tour, which began in March 2023, broke the $1 billion profit barrier for the first time in history. The figure could double as it continues through 2024, with stops on May 29 and 30 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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More records: is, above Elvis, the soloist with the longest number of weeks at number 1 on the Billboard chartthe first woman to place four albums simultaneously on the same chart (and the second person to do so while alive), the first to have 13 of her albums debut at number 1… So with The Tortured Poets Department It can only beat itself.
And so it has done: in total, the album has surpassed 300 million streams in a daydoubling the results of the album that held the record until now, Midnights, by Taylor Swift (186 million streams on its opening day). The third album on the list is also by the singer, 1986 (Taylor’s Version).
As Spotify records fall, It is assumed that the physical sales of the album must also be through the roofwhether on CD, vinyl or cassette.
The goal seems to be to reach 2 million copies in its first week, something frankly ambitious in these times, where more than 1 million is practically a chimera. Except for Swift, of course, who with Midnights It achieved 1.6 million copies sold.
Named by the magazine time Person of the Year in 2023, with a personal capital of $1.1 billion according to Forbesliving a romance with NFL star Travis Kelcey… The singer experiences a dream moment that seems to have no end.
Surprise double album
The Tortured Poets Department It became a surprise double album of 31 songs: The Anthology.
“2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department “It’s a secret double album,” Swift announced on Instagram shortly after releasing the first 16 songs last Friday, April 19.
“I have written a lot of tortured poetry in the last two years and I wanted to share it with all of you, so here is the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology”, the singer continued. “Fifteen new songs. Now the story is no longer mine, it’s all yours.”
The artist had announced the existence of this new work at the 2024 Grammy Awards, and had maintained total secrecy about the songs or collaborations -two, with Florence+The Machine and Post Malone-, and only revealed some lyrics of the songs.
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Swift announced the ‘single’ of the album a few hours before the full release, which is precisely her collaboration with Post Malone, whom Swift has thanked for his ‘magic’ and ‘musical experimentation’. However, The album had been leaked online in its entirety a few hours before, last Thursday.
The artist has explained on social networks that it is an anthology of songs that “reflect” events, opinions and feelings of a “fleeting, fatalistic, sensational and painful” moment.
The Tortured Poets Department addresses the breakup of Swift’s relationship with actor Joe Alwyn, the problems the couple experienced, and the therapy exercise after the end of the daydream.
