Taylor Swift towers tall on the latest iteration of the Billboard 200 with her new studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’
And the first week numbers are gargantuan.
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)Moments ago, it was revealed that the Pop titan debuted at #1 on the coveted US count with a whopping:
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)2.61 million Units First Week
Of that sum, 1.914 million units were accrued by way pure sales; vinyl sales (from that portion of the sales) sit at a jaw-dropping 859,000. Streaming also factored heavily into the huge opening. For, the album’s 31 songs generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)The latter sees the project makes history for delivering largest streaming week for an album… ever.
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)Swift, who now holds 14 #1s on the tally, now ties Jay-Z for the most#1s among soloists in the near-70-year history of the Billboard 200. Only The Beatles, with 19 #1s, have more.
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)Reacting to the news, Swift said:
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)“My mind is blown. I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album. 2.6 million ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?? Thank you for listening, streaming, and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed. I was already so fired up to get back to the tour but you doing THIS?? May 9th can’t come soon enough 🤍”
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But that’s not all! Get into more seismic stats achieved by Swift with the LP:
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)- ‘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 year.
- Breaks 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).
![Chart Check [Billboard 200]: 'Tortured Poets' Makes Historic Return to #1 as Taylor Swift Wrapped Her Record-Breaking 'Eras Tour' with $2B in Ticket Sales](https://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Taylor-Swift-thatgrapejuice-2024-ttpd-tortured-poets-billboard-200-no-1-eras-tour-2-billion-464x260.jpg "Chart Check [Billboard 200]: 'Tortured Poets' Makes Historic Return to #1 as Taylor Swift Wrapped Her Record-Breaking 'Eras Tour' with $2B in Ticket Sales.")
FLOP
Taylor is not flop
lol you’re hilarious
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Hahaha all achievements by white people are nothing but white privilege? Funny as i think the same for blacks with their empathy privilege. How come other minorities like asians dont get the same treatment? Is it because we have jobs? 😂
She could sell 10 million in a week and still be an ashy FLOP
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Wait, you must mean the colour of Beyonce’s weave….cause girl I STILL have no clue WHAT colour that IS, mmmmk?
And just like that Cowboy Flopper was ANNIHILATED 😭
You are correct, with a snap of a finger.
Just………like…….that……
She was not only annihilated . She was kicked off this planet
LMAO
White privilege 🐷
White deserving -of -privilege 😀
So desperate yur need to compare old GHETTO a z z HOOD ANTHEM RATED R Beyonce to sum T E E N POP Rated PG Mayonnaise heart throb. 😆 🤣 😂
Lol never ever mention Taylor in the same name as Beyonce. Stop embarassing Bey and dragging her in your obsession to make it appear as if black artist are still bossing the music industry. Mj and Whitney left a long time ago and Mariah is almost retired. Taylor has arrived.
@ Double Amputee
Cowboy carter is the biggest album by a BLACK artist in years.
But White ppl love MAYONNAISE 🐷
Beyonce isn’t WHITE
So what are u rejoicing For?
SZA IS SELLING MORE THAN BEYONCE. she is not white
Isn’t she white? couldn’t fooled me. She sure as hell dresses and looks white for this album. That’s EXACTLY WHAT she was going for , for this album ROFL
Record breaking Queen! Beyonce who? Normani who??
She drowned and erased Beyoncés Renaissance and Cowboy’s records with just one day lol 😂
32 grammys >>> 🐖 privileges. 💩
Every album sold counts as 2 albums as it’s a double album, so technically it’s a flop
Cowbooboo had 501 songs on it and only did 400k so what u call that hater 🤡
Fleayonce could never btw…😂😂😂😂😂😂
P i g s Privilege
Beyonce isnt WHITE
lol you’re hilarious
1) The Vinyls that were sold are not sold as the double albums
2) streams are not counted that way
nice try though clown haha
It’s ok though , every Beyonce fan probably needs help with Math and literacy like she does hahaha
Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has topped the UK charts with the biggest first-week sales in seven years. It so.d 270,000 UK chart units in seven days
Taylor scored the biggest album sales of anyone in 7 years in the UK
I love who’s afraid of little old me!!! Should be a single I hope.
Now everyone’s eyes will ook to the updated ingles chart. Let’s see how many songs make the top 10.
Definitely some great tracks from a lyrical perspective- Fortnight , Tortured Poets Department . Then there is the gut wrenching Down Bad . Who’s Afraid of Little of Little Old Me packs a powerful punch . Last but certainly not least, we cannot forget I. can Do it With a Broken Heart. This……should be the next single . Definitely a bop . I can see everyone putting their little stories together overcoming their own personal battles in their life , overcoming their obstacles
LMAOOOO TAYLOR SAID WTF IS A COWBOY CARTER? LMFAOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈
93 critics score vs 76. 😆 🤣 😂
400k WITHOUT P**’S PRIVILEGE >>> 4,000,000 with P**’S PRIVILEGE. Diabetes UNBOTHERED is NOT impressed by the success of TORTURED 🐖 🐷 🐽s DEPRESSION. Everything Trailer Stiff (aside from the VISUALS) remains MID.
The only p** here is you hahahahaha Diabetes
All 100% P i g s Privilege… 🗑
And MAYONNAISE 😆 🤣
Beyonce isnt WHITE 🐝
If 🐝 didn’t put COWBOY CARTER on streaming Platforms it would have easily sold 500k pure sales like LEMONADE. Let’s not get DELUSIONAL 😆 🤣 😂 27 years in the game and still most relavant artist far above Taylor in terms of CELEBRITY & MUSIC ROYALTY far above WHITE PRIVILEGE (ADELE, TAYLOR, GAGA ETC)
So desperate yur need to compare old GHETTO a** HOOD ANTHEM RATED R Beyonce to sum T*** POP rated PG mayonnaise heart throb. 😆 🤣 😂
It’s all MARKETING & MAYONNAISE not about MUSIC quality at all, you just want to rejoice because Beyonce is THE QUEEN while yur favs are not. You don’t even LIKE Taylor 😆 nor are u a real stifftie 😆 🤣. Taylor success simply is a reminder of of the corny TASTE of WHITE ppl and their love of Mayonnaise.
Cowboy carter is the biggest album by a BLACK artist in years.
But White ppl love MAYONNAISE 🐷
Beyonce isn’t WHITE
So what are u rejoicing For?
Not with SZA out Beyonce is not selling more in black music dummy
Wow she did almost 2 million in pure sales, that’s crazy. Nobody is selling like that. She didn’t even need streaming like others do.
With 1.914 million sold, The Tortured Poets Department is instantly the top-selling album of 2024, year-to-date. The second-biggest selling album, counting weekly sales from January through the present, is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, with 228,000 copies sold in total.
LMAOOOO 228k THE FLOPPAGE IS REAL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
YES…
That figure reminds me of RIHANNA during her PRIME 😭
U BLACK P**
Attacking and lying on Rhianna WILL NOT TAKE FLOP YONCÉ CAREER OUT THE DUMPSTER
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Republic’s Taylor Swift has notched the second-biggest album debut of all time with THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Her 31-track marvel moves an astounding 2.6m units in its opening week, knocking NSYNC’s No Strings Attached out of the #2 spot (Adele’s 25 remains the all-time #1 with 3.4m+).
#PoorBeyonce
She’d better go on tour again….just to be outgrossed….again😭😭😭😭 nvm…
Checkmate.
More than Cowbutt Carturd and Deadaissance total sales COMBINED☕️
Still a basic ass album, none existing singing voice… Forever blaming past lovers and other people. Congratulations basic ass trash swift
Damn, Taylor Swift tidal wave is real 😳😳😳
Damn she even surpassed my fave Adele’s “30” 839k sales 😳😳😳
I love Adele but she can’t sell very huge as she used to with 21 and 25.
Congratulations Taylor, well deserved.
Adele doesn’t pull as many stunts as Taylor does to accomplish these numbers! That’s the tea!! She just drops her album and keeps it moving!!! No 100000 versions, 63636362628 remixes, 200 different vinyls, cassettes or other smokes and mirrors!!! Adele does it organically and that’s to be celebrated!!
93 critics score vs 76. 😆 🤣 😂
400k WITHOUT P**’S PRIVILEGE >>> 4,000,000 with P**’S PRIVILEGE. Diabetes UNBOTHERED is NOT impressed by the success of TORTURED 🐖 🐷 🐽s DEPRESSION. Everything Trailer Stiff (aside from the VISUALS) remains MID.
93 critics score vs 76. 😆 🤣 😂
400k WITHOUT P I G ‘S PRIVILEGE >>> 4,000,000 with P I G ‘S PRIVILEGE. Diabetes UNBOTHERED is NOT impressed by the success of TORTURED 🐖 🐷 🐽s DEPRESSION. Everything Trailer Stiff (aside from the VISUALS) remains MID.
Highest tour for female artist:
1. Taylor Swift (Era’s Tour) ($1.1 billion)
2. Madonna ( Sticky and Sweet) ($587)
3. Beyonce ( Renaissance Tour) ($579 million)
4. P!nk (Beautiful Trauma Tour) ($473 million)
5. Taylor Swift (Reputation Tour) ($419 million)
6. Madonna (MDNA Tour) ($404 million)
7. Celine Dion (Taking Chances ($397 million)
8. Beyonce (Formation Tour) ($325 million)
9. Taylor Swift (1989 World Tour) ($321 million)
10. Cher (Living Proof Tour) ($312 million)
11. Lady Gaga (Monster Ball Tour ($307 million)
12. Beyonce (Mrs Carter Tour) ($295 million)
13. Madonna (Confessions Tour) ($293 million)
14. Katy Perry (Prism World Tour) ($262 million)
15. P!nk (Carnival World Tour) ($257 million)
*Highest tour for female artist:
1. Taylor Swift (Era’s Tour) ($1.1 billion)
2. Madonna ( Sticky and Sweet) ($587 million)
3. Beyonce ( Renaissance Tour) ($579 million)
4. P!nk (Beautiful Trauma Tour) ($473 million)
5. Taylor Swift (Reputation Tour) ($419 million)
6. Madonna (MDNA Tour) ($404 million)
7. Celine Dion (Taking Chances ($397 million)
8. Beyonce (Formation Tour) ($325 million)
9. Taylor Swift (1989 World Tour) ($321 million)
10. Cher (Living Proof Tour) ($312 million)
11. Lady Gaga (Monster Ball Tour ($307 million)
12. Beyonce (Mrs Carter Tour) ($295 million)
13. Madonna (Confessions Tour) ($293 million)
14. Katy Perry (Prism World Tour) ($262 million)
15. P!nk (Carnival World Tour) ($257 million)
Madonna ( Sticky and Sweet) 408 million not 587. 🗑
They adjusted her figures due to inflation
Inflation literally is still Imaginary Figures that assumes shows would still sell out at ANY price and in ANY climate 🙄
Rihanna nowhere to be found ???
Thats Rihannas record label fault
Her music is still DIAMONDS
93 critics score vs 76. 😆 🤣 😂
400k WITHOUT P**’S PRIVILEGE >>> 4,000,000 with P**’S PRIVILEGE.
Diabetes UNBOTHERED is NOT impressed by the success of TORTURED 🐖 🐷 🐽s DEPRESSION. Everything Trailer Stiff (aside from the VISUALS) remains MID. 🐝 🍯
Lol Beyonce can keep the critics score, Taylor wikl keep all the sales hahaha fatso keeps on making excuses for Beyonce. She is mid. Live with it. Overrated plagiarists and song thief 😂
Beyonce = REVOLUTIONARY, FAR from MID.
CC is the biggest album by a BLACK artist in years especially amongst women.
But White ppl love MAYONNAISE 🐷
PURE mayonnaise at that 😆 🤣 😂
Beyonce isn’t WHITE
So what are u rejoicing For?
& Beyonce is actually UNDERRATED 🐝
OVERRATED = TRAILER 💩
Fatso wont even fit in a trailer, but Taylor will, so i will go for Taylor.
Taylor 1
Fatso 0
B itch #DONT! 🤬 🤬 🤬
Trailer is just playing CATCH UP.
Fun Fact: Beyoncé is the first female in history to have an ALL-STADIUM world tour.
FORMATION.
🐝 was Also the very first artist to drop on a Friday
More important news comes courtesy of the 👑 …
8 years ago today, Beyoncé embarked on the Formation World Tour.
It was met with critical and commercial acclaim
The first female all- stadium world tour in history
Named the best tour of the decade by several publications and one of the best tours of all time.
Broke attendance records
It was then the Highest Grossing Tour by black artist, a record Beyoncé broke in 2023 with the RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR
It grossed over $272 MILLION in just 49 shows, with an attendance of 2.24 MILLION people
Beyoncé was the first female to headline a stadium show in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, held at TCF Bank Stadium.
The UK shows were met with huge commercial success, with all tickets being sold in under 30 minutes, including 90,000 tickets at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Amsterdam Show sold out in a then-record 20 minutes
That’s the past it’s 2024 and SZA shut it down with her #1s. Platinum, triple platinum albums
SZA is a 🤡
SZA is selling,
As of 2024 SZA is selling more than Beyoncé with CNTRL and SOS.
STREAMING not selling 🍯
Everybody wanna be KAREN today I see. Flop b****
SZA pure sales. Yes is selling more than Beyonce. Check it. It’s clear you’re jealous of brown skin and white women.
SZA has been going triple platinum
It’s SZA currently not Beyonce
Rihanna hasn’t released music SZA has been a quite storm over Beyonce’s head
Albums released this year with the most #1’s on Official Charts around the world:
#1. “COWBOY CARTER” — 19 #1’s
#2. “eternal sunshine” — 17 #1’s
#3. “Vultures 1” — 17 #1’s
#4. “THE TORTURED 🐷 DEPARTMENT” — 16 #1’s 🤐
Beyonce last album is a flop compared to SZA last album. They are both black and she double platinum triple platinum.
2023 SZA SOS
3,000,000 million ..
2024 Cow Carter
200,000
R.i.p hater
According to chartmasters Beyoncé sold 43 million PURE sales, thats more than any Black female artist since the start of the 2000s. Rihanna is in 3rd at 34 million. While Alicia offkeys is 2nd place.
SZA SOS
3,000,000 million ..
2024 Cowboy Carter
900,000
SZA released SOS in December 2023 it is triple platinum pure sales
Diabetic is spiraling y’all somebody find her ozempic
Taylor’s music isn’t good anymore in my opinion, it all sounds the same and the vocals haven’t grown at all. The marketing is good tho and selling the same album in 19 variations and cheating fans into buying two will get any popular artist astronomical numbers.
Taylor Swift is predicted to become the first artist in history to occupy the entire top 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Act iii Beyonce falls off a horse and lays next to a dead horse. (Funeral Music) It’s Ova!!! ROFL!!!!!!!!!
I forgot, the Beyhive swarming around the dead horse . I predict $80K album sales $20K vinyl lol
Beyonce who? Cowboy Carter? What’s that? 🤣