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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ becomes first album to pass 1 billion Spotify streams in a single week
Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department is now the only album in Spotify history to surpass one billion streams in a single week, the streaming service announced Wednesday (April 24), and it only needed five days to do it.
The pop star’s 11th studio record arrived at midnight Friday (April 19) bringing with it 16 new songs, including lead single “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone.
Exactly two hours later, Swift nearly doubled the length of the tracklist with the surprise release of 15 more titles as part of an Anthology extended edition of the album.
Since then, Tortured Poets has raked in more than a billion listens across its 31 tracks on Spotify, the fastest LP to ever do so.