Streaming giant Spotify announced Saturday that the newest album from megastar , , has smashed previous records: It's the first album in Spotify's history to have more than 300 million streams in a single day.
Tortured Poets reached that record on its release day last Friday. In the same fell swoop, Swift also became the most-streamed artist within a single day ever on Spotify 鈥� and the album's first track, "Fortnight," which also features as a vocalist, became Spotify's most-streamed song in a single day. (By Monday morning, "Fortnight" had garnered nearly 40 million streams on its own.)
Swift's , autobiographical 11th album was initially released as 16 songs at midnight on Friday. Within two hours, however, Swift dropped 15 additional tracks as "The Anthology," writing on : "It's a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album."
Swift beat her own single-day album streaming records with Tortured Poets and now holds all three top spots for this record: Her newest project has only surpassed her 2022 album, Midnights, and 1989 (Taylor's Version), released in 2023.
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