Taylor Swift is already breaking records with her 11th studio album, a double record titled The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (TTPD).
Just nine hour after its release, the 34-year-old Grammy winner’s latest labor of love surpassed Beyoncé’s country album, Cowboy Carter, as the biggest debut for a 2024 album on Spotify. Beyonce‘s album scored 300.41 million on-demand official streams in its first full week of release.
Around the same time, the Anti-Hero hitmaker’s newly-released album hit number one in over 60 countries on iTunes.
Among its many feats, TTPD has also become the first album in history to debut all its tracks in the top 25 on US Apple Music.
Its lead single, Fortnight, featuring rapper Post Malone, debuted at the top slot.

Taylor Swift is already breaking records with her 11th studio album, a double record titled The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (TTPD)
Fortnight is tracking to be her song with the most number ones after reaching the top spot in the United States, the United Kingdom and 33 other countries on Apple Music in nine hours.
Unsurprisingly, TTPD, which is officially the best-selling album in the US of 2024, is also reported to have made history as the biggest debut on Amazon Music.
It is projected to sell 2 million copies in the US first week.
So far, the most streamed tracks on Spotify are Fortnight, Florida!!!, Down Bad and So Long London.
TTPD has continued to break records by becoming the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day with over a whopping, 200 million streams, reported Deadline on Friday.
Her previous LPs, Midnights (2023) and also 1989 (Taylor’s Version) also broke the same record at the time of release.
Reviews of Swift’s latest work have been overwhelming, and it received a perfect score 100 from Rolling Stone.
‘TTPD combines the intimacy of Folklore and Evermore with the synth-pop gloss of Midnights to create music that’s wildly ambitious and gloriously chaotic,’ music journalist, Rob Sheffield, declared.
He continued: ‘The Tortured Poets Department has a Reputation edge to it, and like Reputation, it sounds designed to confuse many people who try to decode it before listening.’
Other records she is likely to break upon the album’s release in various countries include tying with Jay-Z for the most #1 albums for a solo artist (14), if it goes number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Just nine hour after its release, the 34-year-old Grammy winner’s latest labor of love surpassed Beyoncé’s country album, Cowboy Carter, as the biggest debut for an 2024 album on Spotify

Around the same time, the Anti-Hero hitmaker’s newly-released album hit number one in over 60 countries on iTunes
On Friday, she surpassed Spotify’s record for the most pre-saved countdown page album in the streaming services’ history.
According to VegasInsider.com, she may also break her own record for the most streamed album in a day and most streamed album in a week on Spotify.
Her last album, Midnights previously held the record for the most streamed album on Spotify in a day (184.695 million) as well as the most streamed album in a week (785.253 million).
Tom Poleman, the chief programming officer & president for iHeartRadio, told CNN that The Tortured Poets Department ‘is probably the most anticipated album’ he’s ‘ever’ seen in his career.
‘It’s not just a music event, it’s a pop culture event that I think that everybody in America will be talking about and celebrating together,’ he raved to CNN in a recent interview.
Poleman continued: ‘It’s like in movies, it’s like James Cameron who cares about quality, cares about credibility but also cares about commercial success.’
After releasing her new album at midnight ET (2am UK time), Taylor took to Instagram to announce her latest record was actually a surprise ‘double album,’ after sparking a flurry of speculation by posting a countdown clock on social media.
Captioning the post, the superstar told her followers that she’d written ‘so much tortured poetry in the past two years’ that she wanted to share it with her fans.
Sharing the double album was called The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, she wrote: ‘It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️
‘I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.’
While the deluxe version is not yet available for Taylor’s website, there were four different versions of the original album available, each containing a different bonus track, are priced at £13.99 ($17.38).
The vinyl version, including bonus track The Manuscript, costs £33.99 ($42.23), while a ‘phantom clear vinyl’ is price the same.