Beth Garrabrant
The Swift Sweep, the Taylor Takeover. Call it what you want, just expect Taylor Swift to dominate the UK charts with The Department of Tortured Poets.
When the Official UK Singles Chart is released on Friday April 26, Swift will add to her total of 26 top UK singles and is set to land a fourth No. 1, following 2017’s “Look What You Made Me Do.” , “cardigan” (2020) and “Is it over now?” (Taylor Version)” (2023).
Based on early sales and streaming data analyzed by Official Charts Company, Swift’s collaboration with Post Malone, “Fortnight,” the opening track and first official single from Tortured poetsis in pole position, ahead of the title song and “So Long, London” respectively.
Swift’s 11th studio album, The Department of Tortured Poets is already a world record.
As previously reported, the pop superstar’s latest effort, Friday (April 19), became the first album in the streaming service’s history to rack up more than 300 million streams in a single day.
Earlier, less than 12 hours after its release, Tortured poetshas become the most streamed album on Spotify in a single day so far in 2024. The 31-track double album broke the previous record holder, Beyoncé’s Billboard 200. Cowboy Carter, which ultimately generated 300.41 million official on-demand streams in its first full week of release.
Also “Fortnight”, co-written by Swift, Malone and Jack Antonoff, and co-produced by Swift and Antonoff. became the most streamed song on Spotify in a single day.
The UK, Tortured poets should set the tone in the race for the charts. Swift currently has 11 No. 1 albums there. She is the first and only artist this century to have racked up 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, reports the Official Charts Company, and only the second female artist to do so, after Madonna. If Tortured poets debuts at No. 1 later this week, Swift will tie Madonna on 12 UK leaders.