{"id":117586,"date":"2024-04-24T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/24\/taylor-swifts-ttpd-is-now-first-album-to-hit-1-billion-spotify-streams-in-one-week\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:01:10","slug":"taylor-swifts-ttpd-is-now-first-album-to-hit-1-billion-spotify-streams-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/24\/taylor-swifts-ttpd-is-now-first-album-to-hit-1-billion-spotify-streams-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;TTPD&#8217; is now first album to hit 1 billion Spotify streams in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-24\/M_TaylorSwifttheblackdog_042224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Beth Garrabrant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s hard to keep up with all the records that<strong> Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em> album keeps breaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On April 22, the album became the most streamed\u00a0in a single week in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpotifyNews\/status\/1783190943073505549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Spotify history<\/strong><\/a>; but as of April 24, it\u00a0is the\u00a0first album in Spotify history to hit 1 billion streams in a single week. It actually accomplished that in less than a week: the album&#8217;s only been out for five days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A few of the other records the album has broken include being the first in Spotify history to rack up 300 million streams in a single day and the most-streamed album in a single day. Meanwhile, Taylor\u00a0is now the most-streamed artist in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-first-day-sales-release-week-1235662005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Billboard<\/strong><\/em><strong> side of things<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Tortured Poets<\/em> <em>Department<\/em> now ranks #5 on the list of the biggest sales weeks for any album in the modern era, which <em>Billboard<\/em> dates back to 1991, the advent of electronic sales tracking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Adele<\/strong> still holds the record, with 3.378 million copies in one week\u00a0for\u00a0<em>25<\/em>, followed by<strong> *NSYNC<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>No Strings Attached<\/em> with 2.416 million, *NSYNC&#8217;s<em> Celebrity<\/em> with 1.878 million and\u00a0<strong>Eminem<\/strong>&#8216;s<em> The Marshall Mathers LP<\/em> with 1.76 million. Taylor&#8217;s album has now sold 1.6 million, but the week isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In addition, <em>Billboard<\/em> reports that the album&#8217;s 31 tracks have racked up a combined 602.3 million streams, setting the record for highest single-week streams for an album by a female artist. The only other albums\u00a0that have scored more streams in a week are both by <strong>Drake<\/strong>: 2018&#8217;s<em> Scorpion<\/em> and 2021&#8217;s <em>Certified Lover Boy.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But <em>Billboard<\/em> notes that Taylor could still surpass Drake, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swift-is-focus-of-pal-kendrick-lamar-and-drakes-bitter-feud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>called her<\/strong><\/a> the &#8220;biggest gangster in the music game right now&#8221; on his new song\u00a0\u201cTaylor Made Freestyle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. 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