Taylor Swift has damaged yet one more document together with her newest album The Tortured Poets Division.
For the reason that album was launched every week in the past, it has topped the UK’s music chart with the largest first-week gross sales in seven years.
The BBC experiences that the 31-track double album (together with a second quantity titled The Anthology, which Swift introduced as a shock to her followers) shifted 270,000 UK chart items in seven days, beating Swift’s earlier better of 204,000 for her 2022 album Midnights.
Swift now matches Madonna as the feminine artist with probably the most ever UK primary albums. Each have 12 to their identify, as does Bruce Springsteen. Solely The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Robbie Williams and Elvis Presley have extra.
Swift has damaged different information with this album. By the top of launch day, it had change into Spotify’s most streamed album ever in a single day, and 5 days later had been streamed a billion occasions, the primary album ever to take action.
The album is a transparent verbal memento of the final couple of years of Swift’s romantic life, together with a protracted relationship with English actor Joe Alwyn, and a shorter fling with 1975 frontman Matt Healey, who seems to come back off worst within the lyrics, with the title of 1 track, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived, being attributed by many to the diminutive pop star.