Taylor Swift passes Morgan Wallen’s all-time record

Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is a massive win across the Billboard charts.

No matter how one looks at the numbers–streams of the album, sales of songs featured on it, or in any other fashion–the singer’s latest is unbeatable.

Streams factored heavily into the initial success of The Tortured Poets Department. The set earned a historic start on streaming platforms, with both the full-length and the songs featured on it becoming instantly historic thanks to a huge number of plays on sites like Spotify and AppleApple 0.0% Music.

Before The Tortured Poets Department arrived, Morgan Wallen claimed this bit of history. When his album One Thing at a Time stopped in early 2023, the country project pushed 30 tracks to the Streaming Songs chart. That held as a record for just over a year.