Taylor Swift's ‘The Tortured Poets Department' Breaks Global Streaming Record in Its First Week
Taylor Swift has already broken, re-broken and extended several records across the Billboard charts this week.
. According to Luminate, the album drew 1.76 billion streams worldwide in the week ending April 25, following the set's April 19 release.
Swift is no stranger to the global streaming record, as her new collection breaks the previous high set by her own Midnights.
It would be easy to attribute The Tortured Poets Department's gargantuan streaming total to its extended track listing, as Swift added 15 songs
she still would have broken the record with the original 16 songs, which combined for 1.27 billion first-week global clicks.
Overall, Swift averaged 56.8 million streams per song across all 31 tracks, falling just short of Midnights' 57.8 million.
The Tortured Poets Department's original track listing made up the lion's share of the album's streaming total, the extra Anthology titles sold more.
They sold a total of 95,000 copies worldwide, April 19-25, compared to 82,000 for the standard tracks.
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