Taylor Swift got here for a giant Madonna document following the discharge of The Tortured Poets Division. (Getty)
Taylor Swift is formally sitting fairly alongside the Queen of Pop. Swift has tied with Madonna in a historic document following the discharge of The Tortured Poets Division.
The “Merciless Summer season” singer has formally tied with Madonna for essentially the most number-one albums within the UK by a feminine artist together with her divisive eleventh album, which seems to shout out queer boygenius member Lucy Dacus and actor Clara Bow.
Following the album’s launch on 19 April, The Tortured Poets Division marked the primary album to obtain over 200 million streams on Spotify in in the future. The album even surpassed Swift’s final album, the Grammy history-making Midnights, which beforehand held the document for the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day, with 185 million streams.
Now, each Madonna and Swift each have 12 number-one albums within the nation.
Swift’s achievement at tying Madge’s document was helped by the re-release of her albums Fearless and Converse Now, each of which didn’t hit primary initially, however did of their re-released “Taylor’s Model” codecs.
Nonetheless, The Eras Tour celebrity has managed to seize 12 number-one albums in her 18-year discography, versus Madonna attaining 12 high spots in her 40-year profession.
The Tortured Poets Division is already 2024’s fastest-selling album to date and has already hit the highest spot within the UK this week, in line with Official Charts.
With the re-release of her 2017 album Status reportedly set for launch this 12 months, it appears to be like more and more seemingly that Swift will surpass Madonna’s historic document altogether.
Regardless of Swift’s newest challenge garnering staggering streaming numbers, the document has additionally fiercely divided critics, with some calling it an “prompt basic” and others dubbing it “underwhelming and clunky”.
As for the content material matter, followers have speculated that the album particulars the demise of her relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. Their relationship got here to gentle in Might 2023, however appeared to return to an finish in July of the identical 12 months, in line with experiences.
Listeners imagine that a number of songs within the album – together with “Fortnight” that includes Submit Malone, and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” – and even her whole discography typically might be in regards to the “It’s Not Dwelling (If It’s Not With You)” hitmaker.