The 31-track LP offered 1.4 million copies in its veryfirst day.
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Taylor Swift was gunning for a genuinely impressive release week long before The Tortured Poets Department really dropped, with the pop star unexpected fans by lettingloose 31 brand-new tunes — as opposed to the formerly verified 16 primary and 4 perk tracks — in the period of 2 hours April19
She’d been crafting the stretching, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner-produced job for about 2 years before it lastly showedup, with the vocalist informing fans at a February Eras Tour program that she’d been working on it giventhat the minute she sent the Billboard 200-topping Midnights to her label some time in2022 The inescapable news cycle about her breaksup from longtime partner Joe Alwyn and The 1975’s Matty Healy, as well as her progressing love with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, just included fuel to the fire of buzz leading up to Tortured Poets, which Swift additional stired by stating at another Eras performance, “I’ve neverever had an album where I required songwriting more.”
Come April 19, and her unmatched lyricism, discourse-provoking songwriting and evident allusions to the previouslymentioned relationships showed to be more than sufficient to make millions of listeners tune in, the 14-time Grammy winner smashing records left and right in the procedure. Before Tortured Poets even hit the Billboard charts, it was doing unmatched numbers in streaming, sales and vinyl — not to reference selling 1.4 million copies in its veryfirst day on the market, according to Luminate — providing Swift’s peers a run for their cash in more methods than one.
Keep reading to see all of the significant records The Tortured Poets Department has broken — so far — below.
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Spotify’s Most Pre-Saved Countdown
Before Tortured Poets was even launched, its countdown page on Spotify broke the streaming service’s record for most pre-saves in history. The countdown introduced on March 28, 2 weeks ahead of the album’s release date, welcoming Swifties to watch as each 2nd ticked down.
Spotify likewise continually upgraded the tab with links to the pop star’s merch as well as puzzling videos of Swift printing lyrics from the LP with a typewriter.
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Single-Week Vinyl Sales
Of Tortured Poets 1.5 million first-week sales, 700,000 of those copies were vinyl. That breaks Swift’s own record for the biggest sales week for an album on vinyl in the contemporary period, or consideringthat Luminate started tracking information in 1991, whipping the 693,000 offered of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in its veryfirst week in 2023.
Prior to its release, Tay revealed 4 vinyl variations of Tortured Poets — “The Manuscript,” “The Albatross,” “The Bolter” and “The Black Dog” — each including the 16 tunes on the album’s primary tracklist plus one bonusoffer tune.
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Single-Day Spotify Album Streams
Not just did Tortured Poets become Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in history in less than 12 hours after its release, it likewise endedupbeing the veryfirst album on the platform to accumulate more than 300 million streams in a single day ever.
The streaming service’s previous single-day record-holde