Taylor Swift’s 11th full-length studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, shattered countless records during its first week of release.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ debuted at #1 around the World, including UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand.
It also broke the record for the Highest First Week of US Streams for any album in history.
Some other records set:
- ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ earned the biggest US sales week of Taylor Swift’s career, surpassing ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
- Biggest vinyl sales week for any album in Nielsen era
- Fastest Album to Surpass 1 Billion Global Album Streams in history
- #1 Best Selling Album of the Year in under 48 hours
- Taylor Swift also became the only artist to have seven albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week
- Taylor Swift is now the #1 Best Selling Artist By Total Album Units in the US in 2024
- Broke the record for the biggest first week global Spotify streams for any album in under four days of release
- Swift broke her own all-time record for most single day streams for an artist catalog in global Spotify history (380 million)
- Fastest artist to 10 billion streams on Spotify in a calendar year
- Record for most #1 albums on the Billboard 200 this century
- She also extends her record as soloist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200
- Extended record as the artist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 (106 weeks)
Taylor Swift now matches Madonna as the female artist to have 12 #1 albums in the UK.
In Canada, this is Taylor Swift’s 14th consecutive #1 album. She trails only The Beatles for most #1 albums of all-time in this country.
Listen to ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ HERE.
