THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT SHATTERS RECORDS WORLDWIDE
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD 200, BILLBOARD ALBUM SALES CHART AND AROUND THE WORLD
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APRIL 28, 2024 – Taylor Swift’s 11th full-length studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, shattered countless records during its first week of release. See below for the highlights.
Listen to The Tortured Poets Department — HERE.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ debuts at #1 around the World: (with more to come)UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Highest First Week US Streams for any album in history
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ earns biggest US sales week of Taylor Swift’s career, surpassing ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks record for biggest vinyl sales week for any album in Nielsen era
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Becomes Fastest Album to Surpass 1 Billion Global Album Streams in history
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Becomes #1 Best Selling Album of the Year in under 48 hours
Taylor Swift becomes the only artist to have seven albums debut with over 1 million units sold in their first week
Taylor Swift the #1 Best Selling Artist By Total Album Units in the US in 2024
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ breaks record for biggest first week global Spotify streams for any album in under four days of release
Breaks 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 yearBreaks record for most #1 albums on the Billboard 200 this century
Extends record as soloist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200
Extends record as the artist with the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 (106 weeks)
Spotify:
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record For Biggest Album Debut in Spotify History (314M million streams)
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record For Biggest Album Debut in US Spotify History (150 million streams)
“Fortnight” f. Post Malone Debuts at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 25.2 million streams. Biggest single day in history.
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Song “The Tortured Poets Department” Debuts at #2 on the Global Spotify chart with 19.1 million streams. Second biggest chart debut in history, and biggest debut for a solo song.
“Down Bad” Debuts at #3 on the Global Spotify chart with 17.4 million streams. Third biggest chart debut in history.
Taylor Swift now holds the top 7 biggest global streaming single debuts in chart history.
Taylor Swift breaks the all-time record for most single day streams for an artist catalog in Spotify history (380 million)
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ over 100 million streams in each of its first seven days of release, only album to ever achieve this
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ fastest album to ever reach 1 billion streams, first to do so in under a week
“Fortnight” f. Post Malone Debuts at #1 on the US Spotify chart with over 10 million streams. Biggest single day streams in history and only song ever over 10 million.
Taylor Swift now holds the top 10 biggest single day streaming peaks in US chart history.
Apple and iTunes:
Four #1 hits on US iTunes from ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, all self-replacing at top spot “The Black Dog”“So High School”“thanK u aIMe”
“Fortnight” f. Post MaloneExtends record most #1 hits on US iTunes among all artists (69)
“Fortnight” f. Post Malone peaks at #1 both US and Global Apple MusicFirst song by a female artist to immediately debut at #1 in the US
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first day streams for a Pop album in Apple Music history
Amazon:
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first day global streams for any album in history, doubling her own ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ biggest first week global streams for any album in history, surpasses her own ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ in less than 5 days
Around the World:
- Biggest Debut Week of 2024
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Germany
- Ireland
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Spain
- Sweden
- UK
- Taylor Swift’s Biggest Consumption Week EVER
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Italy
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- UK
- Vinyl
- Australia – Biggest vinyl week 1 in ARIA history with 27,097 units
- Canada – biggest Canadian vinyl sales week in Soundscan/ Luminate history
- UK
- TTPD is Taylor’s 12th consecutive #1 album in the UK
- Taylor Swift matches Madonna as the female artist to have 12 #1 albums in the UK
- TTPD debuts with the biggest week one sales since Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ in March 2017
- Australia
- TTDP is Taylor’s 13th #1 album in a row in Australia
- TTPD debuts with the biggest week one sales since Adele ‘25’ in 2015
- TTDP breaks record for biggest streaming week in Australian history
- TTDP breaks record for most week 1 vinyl sales in Australian history
- Taylor Swift becomes first artist to capture the entire Top 10 Singles Chart in Australian history
- Taylor Swift breaks the record for most #1 albums by a female artist in Australian history
- Taylor Swift breaks the record for most #1 singles by a female artist with 12 in Australian history
- Taylor Swift replaces herself again at #1 on the albums chart. She remains the only artist to replace themselves at #1 on the albums chart in Australian history.
- Taylor Swift becomes the only artist to have 7 simultaneous albums and singles in Australian history.simultaneously hold #1
- Taylor Swift becomes to the only artist to capture the Top 16 songs on Spotify in Australian history
- Canada
- TTPD is the Most streamed album in a single day in Canadian history
- TTPD is the Most streamed album in a single week in Canadian history;
- “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone) is the most streamed song in a single day in Canadian history
- “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone) is the most streamed song in a single week in Canadian history
- TTPD is the Biggest album debut of the modern streaming era
- This is Taylor Swift’s 14th consecutive #1 album in Canada. She trails only The Beatles for most #1 albums of all-time in this country
- This is biggest album debut in Canada since Adele’s 25 (in 2015) and the only album since to sell more than 150,000 units in the first week
- In the last 20 years, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is one of only two albums to sell more than 150,000 units first week (the other is Adele’s 25)
- Germany
- TTPD Breaks Record for the Highest First Day streams in history of Germany
- ll Time in Germany
- Most Streams by a Female Artist in 24 Hours in Germany
- Brazil
- TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week International Album consumption in history of Brazil
- New Zealand
- TTDP is Taylor’s 14th #1 album in New Zealand
- TTDP Breaks Record for the most #1 albums in history of New Zealand
- Ireland
- TTDP is Taylor’s 11th #1 album in Ireland
- TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week Album consumption in history of Ireland
- Netherlands
- TTPD is Taylor’s 7th #1 album
- TTPD sold more than the rest of the Top 100 charts combined
- The #2 album in the charts (Pearl Jam – Dark Matter) stands at 6% of what TTPD sold. Such a big difference with #2 in the charts has not occurred since 1996
- Norway
- TTDP Breaks Record for Highest first week Album consumption by a female artist in history of Norway
