A few days after its release, Taylor Swift’s latest album was able to break records not only in terms of streaming numbers, but also by having massive sales of nearly 2 million copies, in what music magazine Billboard called a “historic release”.
The Tortured Poets Department album ranked first on the Billboard Hot 200, a week after its release, and sold over 2.6 million copies, including song streams on digital platforms .
Traditional sales of the album exceeded 1.9 million copies, including digital downloads and physical copies, as reported by the “E” network.NBC News“.
According to Billboard music magazine, Taylor Swift is the only artist who has sold at least one million copies in one week, through seven different albums.
The album released by the artist Adele in 2015 is still better than Swift’s album, as its sales reached 3.4 million copies in one week sales number of… 2.4 million copies in the week.
But Taylor Swift’s new album not only broke sales records, but also recorded the highest start for an album in terms of the number of streams in history.
According to Billboard, the total number of official streams for all 31 songs on the album reached 891.37 million streams in its first week of release alone.
Speaking of these numbers, Swift thanked her fans in a post on the “X” platform, saying: “I’m so amazed by the love you’ve shown for her ‘ record this… 2.6 million Are you really serious?? listening, streaming, and welcoming the record.”
“The Tortured Poets Oath” came in four different versions, each including a special bonus track, on CD, cassette and vinyl. Special copies of vinyl and CDs were sold to Target stores, as well as a limited edition disc that the American star offered on her website.
Swift surprised her fans by releasing a deluxe version of the album, which contains 31 songs, at just two in the morning on April 19. This special edition is available for digital download and also for listening via online streaming services.
The week in which Taylor Swift’s album was released recorded a particular success in vinyl record sales, as 859,000 copies of the album were sold in this format.
This is the largest number of vinyl sales for a single album in a week in the modern era of the music industry, breaking previous records, according to the music magazine.
This is Taylor Swift’s fourteenth album to top the Billboard 200 chart, tying her with rapper Jay-Z for second place in terms of the number of albums to top the list. Only the legendary Beatles beat them in this achievement, with 19 albums.
