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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ No. 1 for Second Week on Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated May 11) in its second week, earning 439,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 2 (down 83%), according to Luminate. It arrived atop the chart a week ago with a massive 2.61 million units. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Though […]

todayMay 5, 2024 2

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Taylor Swift Creates History With ‘Tortured Poets’

It’s a Taylor Swift sweep on Australia’s charts, as The Tortured Poets Department (via Universal) and “Fortnight” blast to No. 1. Tortured Poets opens at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, April 26, for her lucky 13th leader in these parts. With that result, Swift boasts the most No. 1 albums for a solo female artist in ARIA chart history, moving ahead of Madonna to claim outright […]

todayApril 26, 2024

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Taylor Swift Notches Personal Best In U.K. With ‘Tortured Poets’

Taylor Swift sets a new career mark in the U.K., as The Tortured Poets Department mounts a massive lead in the national chart race. In just three tracking days, Tortured Poets (via EMI) notches a U.K. career best opening week for Swift with more than 220,000 combined units, according to a rare sales flash published by the Official Charts Company.That’s well ahead of Swift’s previous first-week best, for Midnights, which […]

todayApril 25, 2024 3

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’: Records Broken

The 31-track LP sold 1.4 million copies in its first day. Taylor Swift Beth Garrabrant Taylor Swift was gunning for a truly epic release week long before The Tortured Poets Department actually dropped, with the pop star surprising fans by unleashing 31 new songs — as opposed to the previously confirmed 16 main and four bonus tracks — in the span of two hours April 19. She’d been crafting the […]

todayApril 23, 2024 2

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Taylor Swift Takes Huge Lead With ‘Tortured Poets’

Taylor Swift is ready for her chart crown. Predictably, Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department (via EMI) flies out the gate in the U.K., where it’s set to become her 12th No. 1. Based on midweek sales and streaming data captured by the Official Charts Company, Tortured Poets has already collected 197,000 chart units, good enough for the title as the fastest-selling album of 2024 so far.When the full-week’s result is […]

todayApril 23, 2024 3

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Taylor Swift Did ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Commentary For Amazon Music

Now that you’ve spent the entire weekend obsessively poring over all the lyrics on Taylor Swift‘s sprawling, 31-track The Tortured Poets Department, the singer has graciously stepped forward to offer Swifties some additional context. On Monday morning (April 22), Amazon Music launched a track-by-track album experience featuring Swift providing commentary on the songs interspersed throughout the album’s tracks; Swifties can also listen to the album with Taylor’s full commentary by […]

todayApril 22, 2024 2

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: Saddest Lyrics

“Come one, come all, it’s happening again.” Taylor Swift‘s sad lyrics invade The Tortured Poets Department in a way that will have listeners down bad, crying in the gym (or wherever they are), right alongside the poet herself. Swift asks “Am I allowed to cry?” nine songs into the album. What does it say about you if you only make it to track four and your eyes are already welling […]

todayApril 22, 2024 1

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Taylor Swift ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ First Day Sales Reported

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is off to a blockbuster start in the U.S. On its first day of release, on April 19, the set sold 1.4 million copies in traditional album sales, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. That marks Swift’s biggest sales week ever for any album in the U.S. (Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story […]

todayApril 21, 2024

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‘Tortured Poets Department’ Album Review by TikTok Star Jake Shane

Jake Shane, who has nearly 3 million followers on TikTok thanks to his viral comedy videos under the handle @octopusslover8, is reviewing albums for Billboard with exclusive new essays and videos. Find his latest Billboard album review below, for Taylor Swift’s just-released The Tortured Poets Department album. Taylor Swift, known for her vulnerability, has never been so vulnerable. First thing Friday (April 19), Swift welcomed us into The Tortured Poets Department, her earth-shattering 11th studio album. Except, upon arrival, listeners discovered […]

todayApril 20, 2024 3

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