Taylor Swift, performing onstage in Sydney, Australia in February.
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Taylor Swift, performing onstage in Sydney, Australia in February.
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Streaming large Spotify introduced Saturday that the most recent album from megastar Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Division, has smashed earlier information: It is the primary album in Spotify’s historical past to have greater than 300 million streams in a single day.
Tortured Poets reached that document on its launch day final Friday. In the identical fell swoop, Swift additionally turned the most-streamed artist inside a single day ever on Spotify — and the album’s first monitor, “Fortnight,” which additionally options Publish Malone as a vocalist, turned Spotify’s most-streamed track in a single day. (By Monday morning, “Fortnight” had garnered almost 40 million streams by itself.)
Swift’s sprawling, autobiographical eleventh album was initially launched as 16 songs at midnight on Friday. Inside two hours, nonetheless, Swift dropped 15 extra tracks as “The Anthology,” writing on Instagram: “It is a 2am shock: The Tortured Poets Division is a secret DOUBLE album.”
Swift beat her personal single-day album streaming information with Tortured Poets and now holds all three high spots for this document: Her latest undertaking has solely surpassed her 2022 album, Midnights, and 1989 (Taylor’s Model), launched in 2023.
