New album helps Taylor Swift set a milestone on the Billboard 200 chart

As of 2024, 'The Tortured Poets Department' is the best-selling album. (Source: Instagram)

Taylor Swift continues to make waves in the world music scene, after releasing her 11th album, " The Tortured Poets Department ."

This 31-track double album topped the Billboard 200 chart last week, tying Taylor Swift with Jay-Z as the artist/band with the second most No. 1 albums in the history of the chart (14 albums).

Currently, the legendary band The Beatles are the band/artist with the most number one albums on the Billboard 200, with 19 albums.

According to music industry data and analytics firm Luminate, the double album “ The Tortured Poets Department ” has accumulated 2.61 million equivalent album units — a music industry term for sales equivalent to the value of an album.

Of the 2.61 million equivalent album units, 1.91 million came from traditional album sales — listeners buying downloads, CDs, cassettes and vinyl records.

Notably, vinyl accounted for 859,000 units, the highest vinyl sales in modern music history. As of now in 2024, " The Tortured Poets Department " is the best-selling album.

According to Luminate, " The Tortured Poets Department " recorded 891.34 million streams last week. It was the strongest streaming week for an album in modern music history.

With " The Tortured Poets Department ," Taylor Swift broke the record for most streams in a week for an album, surpassing Drake's 25-track album " Scorpion " (745.92 million in 2018), Drake's 21-track album " Certified Lover Boy " (743.67 million in 2021), and her own album " Midnights " in 2022, with 549.3 million streams.

Sharing on social network X, the female singer wrote: “I am truly overwhelmed by the love you have given this album. Up to 2.6 million listens! Thank you for listening, streaming and welcoming 'The Tortured Poets Department' into your lives"./.

(Vietnam+)

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