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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Global Streaming Record in Its First Week
The album re-writes Swift’s own mark for the biggest global streaming week for an album dating to the global charts’ start in 2020.
It would be easy to attribute The Tortured Poets Department ’s gargantuan streaming total to its extended track listing, as Swift added 15 songs (dubbed collectively as The Anthology) just two hours after releasing the 16-song standard edition. So while she is based in America and even began her career in the U.S.-dominated country genre, her starpower knows no geographical bounds, as The Tortured Poets Department also claims the biggest streaming week for an album outside the U.S. (since September 2020). In setting this international record, she surpasses Bad Bunny ’s Un Verano Sin Ti, whose 23 songs collectively drew 704.7 million non-U.S. streams upon its arrival in the week ending May 12, 2022 (for charts dated May 21).
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