In one day, 1.4 million copies were sold in the United States on traditional platforms. Section of tortured poets From his album – Dashboard reports. It easily beat Swift's previous record, 1989's (Taylor's Version), which sold 1.359 million copies in one week.
the Section of tortured poets Its 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) 21 songs achieved 110 million streams on its opening day.
Taylor Swift broke a record at this year's Grammy Awards, where she was the first to take home the Best Album statue for the fourth time for Midnights. Swift also took advantage of the opportunity, elegantly announcing upon accepting the award that her new album, Tortured Poets Oath, would be released soon. It was originally supposed to contain 16 songs, but Swift announced two hours after its release that she would be releasing a 31-song double album instead.
Taylor Swift was with 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 speculating whether the singer was sending a message to Alwyn with the title of the new album (the actor previously had a WhatsApp group exchanged with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, which was called The Tortured Man Club).
Swift appears to have already dedicated songs to her past relationship on the album (like “So Long, London” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”), but The Alchemy, which is full of American football references, is actually about her new boyfriend. , Kansas City Chiefs player, could be about Travis Kelce.
Swift on Friday Describe it as The album is “a selection of new works that reflect the events, opinions and feelings of a fleeting and fateful moment – a moment that was both exciting and sad at the same time. This period of the author’s life has already ended, the chapter closed and closed. There is nothing to avenge, nothing to settle, The wounds healed and upon reflection, most of them were self-inflicted.”