Charlie Puth finally responded to Taylor Swift's “Tortured Poets Department.”

It was about time! On Sunday (April 28), Charlie Puth finally appeared to live up to his unexpected shout-out to the Billboard 200 No. 1 Taylor Swift album Department of Tormented Poets. And while his nod to the lyrical reference to the album's title track was low-key, the “Light Switch” singer Instagram Stories The post said it all with a simple image.

After Swift posted a picture of herself in the studio with TTPD prominently etched on the CD version of the big collection, Puth put his own spin on it by grabbing one of the other studio images of a smiling Swift at work with the album's title scrawled in black marker across the front. The Story didn't have audio or a message from Puth, 32, but it appeared to be Puth's way of subtly thanking Swift for the kind words.

Swift sings, “You smoked and ate seven bars of chocolate/ We said Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist,” she sings on the title track that many fans have speculated are characteristically veiled references to Taylor's reported brief 2023 fling with The 1975's Matty Healy.

Puth's image came from celebrating Swift TTPDrecord of her run when Taylor learned the album marked her 14th No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, tying her with Jay-Z for the most by a solo artist in the chart's nearly 70-year history? only the Beatles, with 19, have more No.1s.

Department of Tormented Poets earned 2.61 million equivalent albums in the US for the week ending April 25, with traditional album sales (purchases of digital album downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) making up 1.914 million of that figure. Vinyl made up a staggering 859,000 of the total, with the 31-track deluxe edition generating 891.34 million official on-demand streams.