Record for Taylor Swift: new album is the most listened to in a day
Spotify announced that with 'The Tortured Poets Department' the US artist broke another record on the streaming platform
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Taylor Swift continues to break her own records: The Tortured Poets Department has become the most listened to album in a single day on Spotify, the leading streaming platform. With Ttpd (as it has now been nicknamed by fans), released at midnight on Friday 19 April, the pop star also became the most listened-to artist in a single day in the history of the streaming music platform. Ttpd is the first album to be downloaded over 200 million times in a single day. The record belonged to Swift herself, who is now responsible for the top three most downloaded albums in a single day: besides Ttpd, Midnights and 1989 (Taylor's version).
The new album - her 11th in the studio - is the first to be released since the end of Taylor Swift's six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn, "a secret double album, because I've written so many haunting poems over the last two years and I wanted to share them with you," the pop star said when presenting her new work on Instagram. Fifteen songs crown the epic of Swift, who had a dazzling 2023 between a shower of awards and the international success of her The Eras Tour.
Ttpd's songs tell of the anger, sadness, longing and confusion after the end of a story, a pain that fans identify with in a kind of collective catharsis that Taylor Swift explained in a post on Instagram: "The writer is adamant that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page," the artist said. "Once we tell our saddest story, we can shed them."
