We can count on Taylor Swift to shatter records every time she drops a new album, and she took things to a whole new level with her latest LP. The Tortured Poets Department debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with the largest streaming week in history, while its songs topped 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Tortured Poets Department easily debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 2.61 million album equivalent units. Album sales comprise 1.914 million, including record-breaking 859,000 vinyl copies, while SEA units comprise 683,000 and TEA units comprise 14,000.
This makes Tortured Poets the second-biggest-selling album on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Adele’s 25, which earned 3.482 million units in 2015. It also scored the largest streaming week for an album, after generating 891.37 million official streams across 31 songs featured on the album’s standard edition and deluxe edition The Anthology.
Swift also made history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where she claimed the top 14 positions with her songs from Tortured Poets. Her Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight” debuted atop the chart, helping her tie Ariana Grande’s record for most No. 1 debuts among female artists. She also made history as the first woman with over 50 songs in the top ten, with 59.
