Taylor Swift‘s brand-new LP, The Tortured Poets Departmenthas actually debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it her 14th studio album reach the peak. The album accomplished massive first-week sales, debuting with 2.61 million comparable album systems in the United States in the week ending April 25, as Signboard reports. Of that number, 1.914 million systems were standard album sales– with vinyl purchases alone representing an enormous 859,000– and on-demand streams clocked in at 891.34 million systems. Swift is now connected with Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums amongst musicians. (The record for the majority of chart-toppers of perpetuity is still held by the Beatles, who have 19 total.)
With the ostentatious numbers, The Tortured Poets Department formally has the biggest streaming week for an album ever. It’s likewise the second-largest week for an album in basic because the Billboard 200 began determining by systems in December 2014, the third-largest sales week because Luminate started digitally tracking sales in 1991, and the biggest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern-day age, reports Signboard
Swift revealed The Tortured Poets Department throughout her approval speech at the 2024 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album for MidnightsThe brand-new album has contributions from Post Malone, Florence Welch, Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Laura Sisk, Glenn Kotche, and numerous others.
Simply days after the brand-new album dropped on April 19 (together with its surprise 2nd part, The AnthologySwift broke her own record for many weekly vinyl album sales, moving 700,000 copies. Throughout all formats, there were about 1.5 million U.S. sales after the three-day duration
The Tortured Poets Department Ended up being the very first album to struck one billion Spotify streams within its very first week. Swift had just herself to beat, as the record was formerly held by Midnights
After launching The Tortured Poets Department and The AnthologySwift shared a black-and-white video for”Fortnight,” co-starring Post Malone, Ethan Hawke, and Josh Charles.