artist stats Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' 1st album to get 1B streams on Spotify in one week

[Ryan]

Spotify announced Wednesday that Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” has become the first album in the app’s history to pick up a billion streams in a single week. And it did that with still a couple of days left to go in the seven-day period in question.

 

The previous high-water mark for most album streams in a week belonged to Swift’s last all-new release, “Midnights,” in October 2022. Spotify did not release a specific figure when it announced at the time that “Midnights” had broken the record, but observers adding the numbers through publicly available Spotify data at the time estimated the figure to be in the 700,000s.

 

That “Tortured Poets” is setting new Spotify records five days into its run is not a surprise. Previously, the DSP had announced that the album had surpassed 300 million streams in just its first day out.

 

As far as individual songs go, the first single from the album has also set Spotify records, as the app previously revealed that “Fortnight,” which features Post Malone, had become the most-streamed song in a single day in Spotify history on its first day of release.

[shookspeare]

even OTH are streaming 

[mercurialworld]

i might not be a stan but i can admit that she ended my flop faves 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Absolutely unheard of

[Sun]

Truly insane

[ALA]

 can't even fathom where this will be at the end of the year

[By the Water]

That's what happens when you're the talk of the town. Other stans even stopped streaming their faves new albums to tune in 

[G.U.Y.]

For comparison, what are the total streams for Cowboy Carter at this point?

[velocity]

only the biggest artist of our time

[Laura Palmer]

Can't wait for the OTHs reaction! 

[TaggedGalaxy]

The banner will make OTH seethe even more

 

OT: truly insane she's unstoppable 

[Material Girl]

happy to not have contributed a single one 

[fridayteenage]

So long London and who's afraid of little old me did that

[Dear Reader]

Even the THOTS are TUNING in! It must be that the Charlie Puth lyric is so addictive 

 

[TaggedGalaxy]

Guilty As Sin's impact 

[Katamari]

The power of WAOLOM and ICDWABH

[YellowRibbon]

AOTY

[Dear Reader]

1 minute ago, WildAmerican said:

jeez lmao imagine the numbers if it was good too 

these are it, honey 

[Ryan]

2 minutes ago, G.U.Y. said:

For comparison, what are the total streams for Cowboy Carter at this point?

Of the 407,000 units sold in the first week, 232,000 are attributed to streaming equivalent albums (300.41 million official streams), while traditional album sales encompass 168,000 and track equivalent albums total 7,000.

[CandleGuy]

Not a BILLION streams in 5.5 days 

[CandleGuy]

1 minute ago, Ryan said:

Of the 407,000 units sold in the first week, 232,000 are attributed to streaming equivalent albums (300.41 million official streams), while traditional album sales encompass 168,000 and track equivalent albums total 7,000.

That includes all streaming though right? And this is just Spotify?

[tomo]

I Can Smash It With A Paste Review 

[Bethenny Frankel]

It's good but these numbers could be a lot better with a smash on the album.

[Gui Blackout]

And not even a full week

 

So grateful to get to witness one of the biggest legends in music history 

[extra_ordinary]

Truly amazing feat!