Taylor Swift’s new album sold 1.4 million copies in one day, breaking her previous record by far

In one day, 1.4 million copies were sold in the United States on traditional platforms. The Tortured Poets Department from his album, reports Billboard. It easily beat Swift’s previous record, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which sold 1.359 million copies in one week.

THE The Tortured Poets Department His 31 tracks were listened to a total of 243.3 million times within 24 hours on official and legal listening platforms. 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s 21 songs generated 110 million listens on its opening day.

Taylor Swift broke a record at the Grammys this year, as she was the first to receive the statue for the best album for the fourth time for Midnights. Swift took advantage of the opportunity, in style, when accepting the award, she announced that her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is coming soon. It was originally supposed to have 16 tracks, but Swift announced two hours after its release that she would be releasing a 31-track double album instead.

Taylor Swift was with the British actor Joe Alwyn for six years, but they broke up last April, and fans analyzing Swift’s private life under a microscope immediately began to speculate whether the singer was sending a message to Alwyn with the title of the new album (the actor previously had a mutual WhatsApp -group with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, which was called The Tortured Man Club).

It looks like Swift really dedicated songs to her previous relationship on the album (such as “So Long, London” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”), but The Alchemy, packed with American football references, is already about her new boyfriend, the Kansas City Chiefs player. , it could be about Travis Kelce.

Swift described the album on Friday as “an anthology of new works that reflect the events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting and fateful moment — a moment that was both sensational and sad. This period of the author’s life is already over, the chapter is closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, nothing to settle, the wounds have healed. And on second thought, most of them turned out to be self-inflicted.”