The Swift Sweep, the Taylor Takeover. Call it what you will, just wait for Taylor Swift to dominate the UK charts Department of Tormented Poets.
When the official UK singles chart is released on Friday, April 26, Swift will add to her 26 UK top 10 singles and is expected to land her fourth No.1, following “Look What You Made Me Do” (from 2017), “jacket” (2020) and “Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version)' (2023).
Based on early sales and streaming data compiled by the Official Charts Company, Swift's collaboration with Post Malone, “Fortnight,” the opening track and first official single from Tormented poetsis in pole position, ahead of the title track and “So Long, London”, respectively.
Swift's 11th studio album, Department of Tormented Poets it is already a world record.
As previously reported, the pop superstar's latest effort on Friday (April 19) became the first album in the streaming service's history to garner more than 300 million streams in a single day.
Earlier, in less than 12 hours after its release, Tormented poets, became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far. The 31-track double album surpassed the previous record holder, Beyoncé's Billboard 200 cowboy carter, which eventually earned 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 Spotify's most streamed song in one day.
In the UK, Tormented poets expected to set the pace in the chart race. Swift currently has 11 No. 1 albums there. She is the first and only artist this century to amass 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, the Official Charts Company reports, and only the second female artist to do so, after Madonna. If Tormented poets debuts at No. 1 later this week, Swift will draw level with Madonna on 12 UK leaders.
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