A new and important achievement in Taylor Swift’s career. Your brand new album The Tortured Poets Department Just over a week after its release, it became the best debut of his career and the best-selling album of this decade.
According to her record company, the American artist’s album sold 6.6 million physical copies worldwide. Even Taylor not only reached number one—it is her fourth album to do so—but also achieved double platinum status.
With the vinyl sales record, in the United States alone he managed to sell 2.6 million records, surpassing his work 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which took it to the top of the list. Additionally, Swift broke all-time records for streaming views.
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{{msg}} {{msg}}The singer reached number 1 in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand.
The Tortured Poets Department, the eleventh album of his career, was released on April 19 with collaborations with Post Malone and Florence + The Machine. The work, which revolves around her breakup with actor Joe Alwyn after a six-year relationship, “reflects events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time, one that was both sensational and painful in equal measure.” “, commented the star on his social networks.
Taylor Swift’s new album reaches the top of Billboard and is close to surpassing the Beatles’ record
In the last few hours we told you that the album has already accumulated 2.61 million “equivalent units”, a measure that includes sales of physical albums along with digital downloads, as reported by Billboard magazine.
With these figures, Swift managed to position 14 albums at number 1 on this famous list, a record only equaled by rapper Jay-Z and surpassed by the legendary British band with 19.
Tortured Poets Department, the 11th studio album in his career, is already the most listened to of 2024 on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music. Thanks to these new songs, Taylor Swift managed to dethrone the Beatles with a brand they had in the United Kingdom.
While it took the Liverpool quartet 14 years and 1 month to accumulate 12 No. 1 albums, Taylor did it in 11 years and 6 months, three years less than the Beatles. With The Tortured Poets DepartmentSwift managed to make her first three albums —Taylor Swift, Fearless and Speak Now—debuted in first place on the Billboard 200 in 259 days, while The Beatles did so in 364.
In turn, in 2020, the American became the first artist to debut at number one on the same ranking twice in the same year with Folklore and Evermorethe two albums he released during the pandemic, a record that belonged to the Beatles in 1969. (Infobae)
