Taylor Swift broke Spotify record with new album

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By Noor Nanji

Culture reporter

Taylor Swift's caller album, The Tortured Poets Society, has breached the grounds for Spotify's most-streamed successful a azygous day, the level said.

The popular sensation besides became the most-streamed creator successful a azygous day.

Her hotly anticipated medium was released connected Friday, sending Swifties astir the satellite into a frenzy.

It contains 31 tracks successful which the megastar lays bare her heartbreak and appears to nonstop choler astatine erstwhile partners.

The archetypal 16 tracks dropped arsenic scheduled astatine 5am UK time, but conscionable a fewer hours later, an further 15 tracks were released, giving her fans plentifulness to dive into - arsenic good arsenic sending euphony journalists into a tailspin.

Swift said the medium was an anthology of caller works reflecting "events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic infinitesimal successful clip - 1 that was some sensational and sorrowful successful adjacent measure".

She went connected to state that play successful her beingness "now over".

"The section closed and boarded up. There is thing to avenge, nary scores to settee erstwhile wounds person healed," she said. "Once we person spoken our saddest story, we tin beryllium escaped of it."

Swift announced the accomplishment of her 11th workplace medium unrecorded connected signifier astatine the Grammy Awards successful February.

It contains tracks including So Long, London, which is wide thought to beryllium astir her ex-partner, British histrion Joe Alwyn. Swift, who was with Alwyn for six years, had antecedently moved to London wherever helium was living.

Another track, But Daddy I Love Him, is besides thought to code the sermon that surrounded Swift's reported-but-never-confirmed romance with The 1975's pb vocalist Matty Healy, past year.

The grounds follows the hugely palmy Midnights, which sold 1.6 cardinal copies successful its archetypal week successful the US 2 years ago.

It featured the singles Anti-Hero, Bejeweled and Karma, and went connected to triumph medium of the twelvemonth astatine the Grammys - making Swift the archetypal idiosyncratic to triumph the grant 4 times.

The accomplishment of a caller medium sent shockwaves done her loyal fanbase arsenic it means determination volition beryllium caller worldly to adhd to the star's blockbuster Eras tour, which hits Europe this summer.

Swift revisits each of her erstwhile 10 albums astatine the concerts, which already tally for implicit 3 hours.

Her medium comes blistery connected the heels of a engaged twelvemonth for the star, who was besides declared a billionaire by Forbes mag earlier this month.

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