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Swift’s latest album “The Tortured Poets Department” has exceeded expectations, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart with an impressive sales figure. The double album sold a total of 2.61 million equivalent album units in its first week in the US alone, according to Billboard’s latest report published Sunday (April 28).
The majority of these purchases came from traditional album formats like CD and vinyl LPs as well as digital download albums – amounting to a whopping total of 1.914 million units sold in this category alone, which is the largest sales week for any artist since Adele’s “25” back in November 2015.
Swift has now tied with Jay-Z as the second most number one albums by a recording artist on Billboard’s charts – both artists being just shy of The Beatles, who have an impressive record of nineteen top positions. Additionally, Swift holds the title for having the highest first week sales to date among female musicians in history.
The album’s success is even more remarkable when you consider that 14 out of a possible fifteen albums (eleven studio releases and four re-recorded “Taylor’s Version” editions) have reached number one on Billboard’s charts, with her self-titled debut in 2006 peaking at position five.
Swift also sold an impressive total of 859,00 copies of the album across vinyl formats – which is a new record for largest sales week ever recorded during this modern era on Billboard’s charts. The singer released six different variants in all; each containing its own bonus track (“The Manuscript,” “The Albatross,” “The Bolter” and “The Black Dog”).
When the latest edition of Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart is published on Monday, Swift could potentially break yet another record. Currently, Drake holds this title with a total of fifteen simultaneous entries in the top twenty – but if enough listeners continue to stream and purchase “The Tortured Poets Department,” then Taylor may surpass his achievement as well!
In November 2019, Swift became an unparalleled phenomenon by filling every slot at number one simultaneously on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart with tracks from her album “Midnights.” She has also broken records for female artists in various categories including the top five, ten and forty.
As it happens – thanks to both fan appreciation of Taylor Swift as a prodigiously talented artist and an impressive marketing campaign that included surprise releases on streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music – “The Tortured Poets Department” has already broken all-time historical records for these services since its release date (April 19).
In fact, the album drew over three hundred million streams in a single day upon its debut. Additionally, it was also the first ever to reach one billion total streaming units during a single week on Spotify! In recognition of Swift’s extraordinary talent and exceptional artistic achievement with “The Tortured Poets Department,” Billboard declared this album as having had “the largest streaming week for an album in history.”
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