Singer Taylor Swift occupied the top 14 positions of the top hit songs chart in the US, selling 2.6 million copies in the first week.

On April 30, Billboard magazine confirmed that Taylor Swift’s new album – The Tortured Poets Department – has 14 songs occupying the top of the Hot 100, America’s favorite weekly song chart. The 35-year-old singer broke her own record in 2022 with the album Midnights (10 songs). The single Fortnight – featuring Post Malone – became Taylor Swift’s 12th song to top the Hot 100.

Released last week, her new album also dominates the Billboard 200 – the chart of best-selling albums – with 2.6 million units, of which 1.9 million are music albums, the rest are converted from streams. online, download digital music. She sold 859,000 vinyl records, breaking the first-week sales record of this type of record for more than 30 years in the US. Taylor Swift and Jay-Z are currently the two solo artists with the most albums topping the Billboard 200 – 12.

She also dominates online music sites. At Spotify, the new album reached more than 1.18 billion global streams after seven days, the first record to surpass this mark in its first week of release. Apple Music also confirmed that The Tortured Poets Department was the most listened to album on the first day of this digital music system’s history.

On her personal page, Taylor Swift said she did not dare to believe in the new album’s achievements. “Thank you for listening and welcoming The Tortured Poets into your lives. I’m truly overwhelmed,” she said.

Taylor Swift released the double album The Tortured Poets Department in mid-April, which is considered one of the biggest music events of the year. The album includes 31 songs, of which 16 songs were announced in advance. On the launch day, she suddenly introduced the second part – including the remaining 15, creating a fever on social networks. On the fanpage, the singer wrote: “I have written many painful poems in the past two years and want to share them all with you. Now the stories are no longer mine, they are yours.”

The record has a synth-pop sound, mixed with rock and folk. On Metacritic – a system that aggregates reviews from critics, the album received a positive score of 76/100, with most giving positive comments about the album. Billboard analyzed the record as “a series of unbridled emotions and drama”, while Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield called it “Taylor Swift’s most personal” album.

Taylor Swift debuted in 2006 and soon reaped many achievements. Besides her good singing voice, she also made an impression with her songwriting talent and is the main songwriter of songs in her career. After 10 albums, Taylor Swift received 12 Grammy awards, 29 Billboard awards and had success with many international tours. Last year, she launched The Eras Tour , which has so far achieved more than $1 billion in revenue, helping Taylor Swift become the only billionaire whose fortune is largely based on music, according to Forbes