5 records broken by Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department

Spotify announced on Wednesday that TTPD has become the first album to cross the one billion streams mark within a week. And it's only been five days! The previous record of most streams also belonged to Taylor, for her 2022 album Midnights, at over 700,000,

After Taylor dropped the album last week on April 19, TTPD garnered 300 million streams on Spotify in a singular day. Going by its trajectory, TTPD is likely to cross 2 million in album-equivalent units in the official charts, thus the highest since Adele's album 25 in 2015, as reported by Variety.

Fortnight, Taylor Swift's collaboration with Post Malone, turned out to be the most preferred song on the release day. It became the most streamed song in a single day in Spotify history.