@itstaytaylors Me bc I can’t even fly to the closest concert venue which is 4 hour flight away and not to mention expensive. Don’t even mention the tickets
The Swift Agenda 03 | Apr. 19–29, 2024
1. Taylor Swift officially ascends the Mount Olympus of music history as she enters “Big 12” territory, now sitting with THE biggest among the all-time greats and is, across all metrics, the de facto leader of the 21st century.
Best-selling artists of all time (equivalent album units; via @chartmastersorg):
#1 The Beatles — 425,975,000
#2 Michael Jackson — 340,840,000
#3 Elvis Presley — 322,594,000
#4 Queen — 282,703,000
#5 Madonna — 249,748,000
#6 The Rolling Stones — 245,570,000
#7 Pink Floyd — 239,549,000
#8 Frank Sinatra — 231,246,000
#9 Eminem — 212,828,000
#10 Elton John — 210,609,000
#11 Led Zeppelin — 207,946,000
#12 Taylor Swift — 204,323,000
21st-century artists in the all-time Top 100:
— Taylor in the 201M–220M range
— 0 artists in the 181M–200M range
— 0 artists in the 161M–180M range
— 1 artist in the 141M–160M range
— 1 artist in the 121M–140M range
— 5 artists in the 101M–120M range
— 4 artists in the 81M–100M range
— 2 artists in the 61M–80M range
With the industry-shaking arrival of her sales and streaming behemoth “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT”, she has reached unimaginable heights — far surpassing her modern counterparts — and is bound to catapult herself towards the Top 10, further expediting her legendary ascent to the all-time Top 5 and challenging even the heavyweights and titans of music history.
2. Taylor Swift’s “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” (2.61 million) posts the biggest Billboard 200 debut for any streamable album ever, an earthshaking feat deemed “impossible” even for the most powerful A-list artists of the 21st century.
Billboard 200: #1(new) @taylorswift13, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT 2,610,000 [891.37 million on-demand streams | 1,914,000 pure sales].
• Biggest US streaming week of all time (891M), dethroning Drake’s Scorpion.
• Biggest US vinyl sales week in Nielsen history (859K), dethroning Taylor’s Midnights.
3. With streaming having become the meta and effectively handicapping the first-week figures of even the biggest of today, not a single artist (apart from Taylor Swift) has even breached the highly coveted 1 million mark this decade, let alone the rarefied 2 million threshold. And to give some perspective:
Only eight albums have debuted with more than 600,000 copies (“the new one million”) on Billboard 200 this decade.
Six are from Taylor Swift.
4. “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” broke the record for the biggest album debut in Spotify history, amassing a nearly immortal 314.5 million streams on its first day alone.
#1 #TSTTPD 314.5M
#2 Midnights 185.6M
#3 1989 TV 176.2M
#4 Certified Lover Boy 154.9M
#5 Un Verano Sin Ti 146.4M
#6 NSLQVAPM 146.3M
#7 Scorpion 132.4M
#8 UTOPIA 129.4M
#9 Speak Now TV 126.8M
#10 For All the Dogs 109M
5. On a wider scale, “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” continued to obliterate everything in sight as it became the fastest album in Spotify history to surpass 100M, 200M, 300M, 400M, 500M, 600M, 700M, 800M, 900M, and 1 billion streams.
It currently holds the biggest Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, and Day 7 ever — breaking every record possible during its release week, ultimately finishing with 1.173 billion streams.
6. And to completely SHUT DOWN the “31 tracks” excuse, it now occupies 4 of the 5 biggest song debuts in Spotify history:
#1 Fortnight 25.2M
#2 TTPD 19.1M
#3 Down Bad 17.4M
#5 So Long, London 17.2M
These songs ALONE are enough to make it the biggest non-TS female album debut of all time.
7. And on top of all the huge, significant, unprecedented records that Taylor Swift has made for the past week — and as if being the album sales, touring, and streaming supreme aren’t enough — Taylor Swift absolutely dominates Billboard Hot 100 as “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” becomes the first album in history to ever sweep the entire Top 14 of the chart.
And to put it simply:
Thirteen Taylor Swift songs could’ve been #1 on Billboard Hot 100 this week if it wasn’t for Taylor Swift.