Taylor Swift’s latest studio album The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD) is already breaking records!
The album dropped at midnight of April 19 and it featured collabs with Post Malone and Florence + The Machine and is now available on Spotify.
Taylor shared this message as the album dropped:
"The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up.
"There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry."
TTPD already broke the record for the most pre-saved album in the Spotify's history.
Spotify announced that the album became 2024's most streamed album in a single day in less than 12 hours after its release.
It surpassed 200 and 300 million streams in one day, breaking the all-time record for most streamed album in a single day, which was also previously held by Taylor’s own Midnights and helping her surpass her own all-time record for most streamed artist in a single day.
The album also became the most streamed album in a single day on Amazon Music with less than 12 hours of availability, and surpassed Midnights to become the most streamed pop album in a single day on Apple Music.
Target Corporation confirmed that The Tortured Poets Department was its "largest music pre-order of all time".
In the U.S., Billboard reported that the album sold 1.6 million equivalent units in its first day alone, including 243.4 million on-demand streams and 1.4 million pure copies, of which 600,000 were vinyl LPs.
The album’s full track list includes:
Side A: “Fortnight (feat. Post Malone), “The Tortured Poets Department,” “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” and “Down Bad.”
Side B: “So Long, London,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” and “Florida!!! (feat Florence + The Machine).”
Side C: “Guilty as Sin?,” “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” and “loml.”
Side D: “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “The Alchemy,” “Clara Bow,” and the bonus tune “The Manuscript.”
Taylor had been teasing the Swifties with Easter eggs all week long pointing to "Fortnight" as her lead single.
A music video for the song dropped on Friday at 8 p.m. and Taylor has shared a teaser video. She posted the clip with the message, "At this hearing, I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with a summary of my findings."
Variety music editor Jem Aswad previewed the album, and he shared: “It's much more raw about heartbreak than any of her albums before have been. It's not, you know, the other ones had an element of revenge or anger or some sadness, but it was more from a distance. This one is really raw and immediate."
Swift’s current boyfriend Travis Kelce is a big fan of the album. He told Extra’s Jenny Taft back at the Super Bowl in February: “I have heard some of it, yes, and it’s unbelievable. I can’t wait for her to shake up the world when it finally drops.”
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