Singer Taylor Swift reached more than 300 million streams of her new album on the first day on Spotify, breaking her own record.
Taylor Swift at age 34. Photo: Instagram Taylor Swift
According to Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reached 310 million streams on its release date, surpassing the record of Midnights – the album she released in 2022 (185 million streams). The album’s opening single – Fortnight (sung with Post Malone) – reached 25.2 million streams, surpassing Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You to become the song with the most streams in a day.
MV “Fortnight” – Taylor Swift. Video: YouTube Taylor Swift
On Apple Music, Taylor Swift became the first artist to have all the songs on her new album enter the global top 50. The Talk of the charts page – specializing in predicting chart positions – believes that next week, the singer will monopolize the top 12 hottest songs of the week on the Billboard Hot 100. Chart Masters statistics page evaluates the current sales rate. Today, Taylor Swift soon became the female artist with the best-selling album in music history.
Taylor Swift released the double album The Tortured Poets Department, which was considered one of the biggest music events of the year. The album includes 31 songs, of which 16 songs were announced in advance. On the launch day, she suddenly introduced the second part – including the remaining 15, creating a fever on social networks. On the fanpage, the singer wrote: “I have written many painful poems in the past two years and want to share them all with you. Now the stories are no longer mine, they are yours.”
The record has a synth-pop sound, mixed with rock and folk. On Metacritic – a system that aggregates reviews from critics, the album received a positive score of 84/100, with most giving positive comments about the album. Billboard analyzed the record as “a series of unbridled emotions and drama”, while Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield called it “Taylor Swift’s most personal” album.
Taylor Swift, 34 years old, was dubbed the “country music princess” of the American music industry when she first started her career. She debuted in 2006 and soon reaped many achievements. Besides her good singing voice, Taylor Swift also made an impression with her songwriting talent and is the main songwriter of songs in her career. After 10 albums, Taylor Swift received 12 Grammy awards, 29 Billboard awards and had success with many international tours. Last year, she launched The Eras Tour , which has so far achieved more than $1 billion in revenue, helping Taylor Swift become the only billionaire whose fortune is largely based on music, according to Forbes.
