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Taylor Swift has made Spotify history with her new release “The Tortured Poets Department,” becoming the first album to surpass 200 million streams in a single day. diverse can exclusively reveal.
The feat comes less than 24 hours after its release, suggesting that the numbers could extend higher once the final numbers are tallied. Swift now has the top three most streamed albums in a single day, with the previous records held by “Midnights” and “1989 (Taylor Version)”.
Additionally, with “Poets,” Swift became the most streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history. She previously broke her record as the most streamed female artist in a single day when “1989 (Taylor's Version)” dropped in October of last year.
Even before the release of “Poets,” Swift was breaking Spotify records as her album countdown page became the most pre-saved album in Spotify history just one day before its arrival.
“Poets” was initially intended to be a 16-track album, featuring guest appearances from Post Malone and Florence + the Machine. No singles were released prior to the album's release, and little was known about what it teased in the lead-up to release day. But two hours after it hit streaming services, Swift revealed she had a trick up her sleeve, dropping an additional 15 songs to bring the entire project to 31 songs.
“I've written a lot of tortured poetry in the last couple of years and I wanted to share it all with you, so here's Part 2 of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 more songs,” she wrote on Instagram. “And now the story is no longer mine…it's all yours.”
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