Taylor Swift’s new album has broken a new record after it was played more than one billion times on Spotify.
The US singer, who released The Tortured Poets Department last week, had already become the first Spotify artist to have 300 million streams in a single day.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Spotify said on Wednesday: “On April 22, 2024, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week.
“The album has surpassed one billion streams since release.”
The singer-songwriter, 34, had previously broken other Spotify records by becoming the first female artist on the music listening site to reach 100 million monthly listeners in August 2023.
Swift’s Midnights, which went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic, was the most streamed album in the UK for 2023.
The album also broke the then record for most-streamed album in a single day in the streaming platform’s history when it was released in October 2022.
The Tortured Poets Department, her highly anticipated 11th studio album, includes collaborations with Florence And The Machine and Post Malone and her song titles and lyrics appear to refer to some of her ex-flames.
Swift was also named 2023’s biggest-selling global recording artist by topping the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) global artist chart for a fourth time earlier this year.
Earlier in the day, Swift offered fans more insight into her new album with a new track-by-track commentary on Amazon Music.
The US music superstar launched the 16-song album on Friday morning and just two hours later revealed it was a double album with 15 more songs available on The Anthology edition.
Swift has since taken fans “behind-the-scenes” in pre-recorded messages about several of her hit tracks on the new album, including lead single Fortnight featuring Post Malone.
After its release, fans speculated that the lyrics to Fortnight were in part about The 1975 singer Matty Healy, whom she was rumoured to be dating briefly last year following her split from British actor Joe Alwyn.
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Meanwhile Swift said My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys, another song rumoured to be about Healy, is a track she wrote “alone”, describing it as being written from the perspective of a child’s toy.