Random, but I miss the Midnights era so much. 98 Metacritic debut (universally acclaimed from the beginning because the numbers weren’t out yet and people didn’t yet have the urge to punish Taylor for being “too successful”). Midnights Mayhem With Me. The elaborate build-up to the era. The entire aesthetic. The pure pop bliss of listening to the very first note of Lavender Haze. Midnights being perfect and literally Taylor’s most unskippable album to date. The last era of people being normal to Taylor (before El*n destroyed the social ecosystem of this app). Taypraise left and right. Visual album rumors. Midnights breaking the biggest Spotify debut of all time (and antis being gagged at there being no “female” 😭). Swifties being absolutely flabbergasted of the numbers and historic records. Literal mass breakdowns of Taytrier fandoms. HITSDD projecting 1M+ debut. Record after record after record. Two top-tier music videos in a week. Initial Hot 100 projections sending swifties into a frenzy because of the possibility of Taylor becoming the first to ever occupy the entire Top 10. Antis streaming Unholy in a desperate attempt. Swifties doing buy parties for Question and Vigilante Sh*t. Arianators provoking swifties with their “solo top 3” record clownery. Swifties boosting Maroon in response (lol). Midnights debuting with 1.578M on Billboard 200 and triumphantly occupying the entire Top 10 of the Hot 100. Anti-Hero blocking several A-list releases week after week. Bejeweled dance going mega-viral. Listening parties, Midnights-themed events, and a string of phenomena leading up to Taylormania. Then Taylor sealing the deal and announcing *the* biggest tour of all time.
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 😩
Biggest album debuts by female artists on the Billboard 200 chart in the 2020s:
#1. The Life of a Showgirl - 4.002M
#2. The Tortured Poets Department - 2.61M
#3. 1989 (Taylor's Version) - 1.653M
#4. Midnights - 1.57M
#5. folklore - 846k
#6. 30 - 839k
#7. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - 716k
#8. Red (Taylor's Version) - 605k
#9. you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love - 485K
All five biggest debuts in the US this decade belong to Taylor Swift and her folklore wall:
#1. The Life of a Showgirl — 4M
#2. Tortured Poets Department — 2.61M
#3. 1989 (Taylor's Version) — 1.65M
#4. Midnights — 1.58M
#5. folklore — 846K
This album has more than double the versions that Showgirl has yet it couldn’t even sell half a million….. I hope they understand that it’s never about the versions
.@taylorswift13's "I Knew It, I Knew You" is projected to rank among the 25 top selling songs of 2026 with just one week of tracking, as it has already surpassed the current cutoff for the 2026 Billboard Digital Song Sales Year-End list — making it the 17th song to achieve this.
Check out the current ranking here: https://t.co/YnQmoxFJGL
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” is expected to earn 400+ chart points on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second week in a row.
The last single to do this was Taylor’s own “The Fate of Ophelia”.
#TaylorSwift's "I Knew It, I Knew You" scores a 2nd week atop the Official UK chart and the biggest week for a single so far in 2026!💪💃☁️🎶1⃣🇬🇧✖️🥈📆➕🔝📆2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣👑🤍
"I Knew It, I Knew You" earned 71,000 chart units over the past week including combined UK sales and streams, surpassing Harry Styles’ "Aperture" which earned 70,000 units in its 1st week in January! It’s the biggest week of sales for a single in nearly three years, since The Beatles’ record-breaking Now And Then release in November 2023. It's the 7th time Taylor has topped the Official Singles Chart! She's the 1st Artist in 2026 to score 2 x #1 UK singles!
I Knew It, I Knew You from Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) secures the biggest week for a single so far in 2026 and a second consecutive week at Number 1! 🤠 Check out the full Official Singles Chart Top 40 here 🔽
https://t.co/Q77gJi3gYX