Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ breaks Global streaming record in its first week

Taylor Swift has already broken, re-broken and extended several records across the Billboard charts this week.

In addition to her staggering sales and streaming totals in the U.S., as reflected on charts dated May 4, The Tortured Poets Department is a certified global phenomenon.

Its 31 songs on the LP’s deluxe version combined for the biggest global streaming week since the Billboard Global 200, which reflects consumption in over 200 territories, including the U.S., launched in September 2020.

According to Luminate, the album drew 1.76 billion streams worldwide in the week ending April 25, following the set’s April 19 release.

With 1.76 billion streams worldwide, the album rewrites Swift’s own mark for the biggest global streaming week for an album dating to the global charts’ start in 2020.

Swift is no stranger to the global streaming record, as her new collection breaks the previous high set by her own Midnights. In October 2022, the then-20-song deluxe edition album logged 1.16 billion streams.

That means that Swift hasn’t just set a new benchmark, but rather entered a new realm entirely, improving upon her previous best by 52%.