Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has already racked up over 1bn streams on Spotify – the first album to do so in less than a week

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Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, has broken more Spotify records – and one of them is a big one.

On April 22, 2024, it became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week.

And as of today (Wednesday April 24), the album has officially surpassed 1 Billion streams since it was released on Friday (April 19).

This achievement means that Swift’s album has become the first in Spotify’s history to reach 1 Billion streams in a single week.

Furthermore, this was achieved before the full streaming week was completed as it’s only been five days since the album’s release.

The news was confirmed today on Spotify’s social media.

Today’s achievement follows a long line of recent records on the platform broken by Swift.

On April 19, 2024, for example, The Tortured Poets Department became the first album in Spotify history to reach over 300 million streams in a single day.

Plus, on April 19, 2024 The Tortured Poets Department’s debut single Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) became the most-streamed song in a single day in Spotify history.



On April 19, 2024, The Tortured Poets Department became the most-streamed album in a single day in Spotify history.

Taylor Swift now holds the Top three most streamed albums in a single day in Spotify history, including: The Tortured Poets Department; Midnights and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

In addition, on April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift became the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history with her latest release.

She also broke her previous record achieved with the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on October 27, 2023.

On April 18, 2024, The Tortured Poets Department became the most pre-saved album Countdown Page in Spotify history.

On August 29, 2023, Taylor Swift became the first female artist in Spotify history to reach 100 million monthly listeners.

On July 7, 2023, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) became the most-streamed country album in a single day in Spotify history.Music Business Worldwide

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