Current:Home > NewsTaylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ hits No. 1, with songs claiming the top 14 spots -Wealth Evolution Experts
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ hits No. 1, with songs claiming the top 14 spots
View
Date:2025-04-12 14:18:32
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift continues to dominate in the week following the release of her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” The 31-track album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, tying Swift with Jay-Z for second-most No. 1 albums at 14. Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1 albums, have had more.
The double album has amassed 2.61 million equivalent album units, according to Luminate, the industry data and analytics company. A shocking 1.91 million of those units come from traditional album sales — people purchasing downloads, CDs, cassettes and vinyl. Vinyl accounts for 859,000 units sold, the highest number of vinyl sales in modern history.
It is the top-selling album of 2024, eclipsing Beyoncé's “Cowboy Carter,” which sold 228,000 units. (But streaming was a boon: “Cowboy Carter” hit 407,000 equivalent album units, a combination of pure album sales and on-demand streams, earned in the U.S. in its first week.)
“The Tortured Poets Department” hit 891.34 million album streams, according to Luminate, the biggest streaming week for an album in history.
AP AUDIO: Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ hits No. 1, experiences largest streaming week ever
AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on Taylor Swift’s giant sales week for “The Tortured Poets Department.”
She’s broken the highest single-week mark for an album, passing Drake’s 25-track “Scorpion” with 745.92 million in 2018, his 21-track “Certified Lover Boy” with 743.67 million in 2021, and her own “Midnights” in 2022 with 549.3 million streams.
“My mind is blown. I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album,” Swift wrote on X. “2.6 million are you actually serious? Thank you for listening, streaming, and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed.”
By Monday afternoon, Swift had broken yet another record with tracks claiming the top 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100. Previously, she was the only artist to ever monopolize the top 10 when her last album, 2022’s “Midnights” took over the charts.
So what’s in the No. 1 spot this time around? Her lead single, “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone, followed by “Down Bad,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “The Tortured Poets Department,” and “So Long, London,” respectively.
veryGood! (35)
Related
- A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish
- The Lions, and the city of Detroit, are giving a huge middle finger to longtime haters
- Bachelor Nation's Clare Crawley and Husband Ryan Dawkins Welcome First Baby Via Surrogate
- What is capital gains tax in simple terms? A guide to 2024 rates, long-term vs. short-term
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- Beyonce? Ariana Grande? Taylor Swift? Which female artists have the biggest potty mouths?
- Palestinian ambassador to UN calls on Non-Aligned Movement to pressure Israel to enforce cease-fire
- Ali Wong and Bill Hader Enjoy Award-Worthy Date Night at Emmys 2023 After-Party
- Police remove gator from pool in North Carolina town: Watch video of 'arrest'
- What would a second Trump presidency look like for health care?
Ranking
- House passes bill to add 66 new federal judgeships, but prospects murky after Biden veto threat
- European Court of Human Rights rules against Greece in 2014 fatal shooting of a Syrian man
- A surgeon general report once cleared the air about smoking. Is it time for one on vaping?
- Airlines scrap thousands of flights as wintry weather disrupts travel
- The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text on the rise. What to know.
- Reports: Arizona hires San Jose State coach Brent Brennan as the successor to Jedd Fisch
- Ships and aircraft search for 2 Navy SEALs missing after mission to confiscate Iranian missile parts
- 'The streak has ended!' Snow no longer a no-show in major East Coast cities: Live updates
Recommendation
'No Good Deed': Who's the killer in the Netflix comedy? And will there be a Season 2?
Aubrey Plaza Takes a Stab at Risqué Dressing at the 2023 Emmys With Needle-Adorned Look
Turkey’s Erdogan vows to widen operations against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq
Turkey’s Erdogan vows to widen operations against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq
2024 Olympics: Gymnast Ana Barbosu Taking Social Media Break After Scoring Controversy
Who is Guatemala’s new president and can he deliver on promised change?
Shell to sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but activists want pollution cleaned up first
Police say a 10-year-old boy from Maryland was attacked by a shark at a Bahamian resort