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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Moments ago, it was revealed that the Pop titan debuted at #1 on the coveted US count with a whopping:
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.
The latter sees the project makes history for delivering largest streaming week for an album… ever.
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.
Reacting to the news, Swift said:
“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 🤍”
But that’s not all! Get into more seismic stats achieved by Swift with the LP:
- ‘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).