Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has become the first record to reach 1bn Spotify streams in a week.

The platform has announced that the album “became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week” on April 22. It also broke the record for Spotify's most streamed album in a single day on April 19.

Taylor Swift has overtaken her own record, which was previously held by her 2022 Midnights, which generated an estimated $230m in sales for Universal.

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 1 Billion streams since release.

— Spotify News (@SpotifyNews) April 24, 2024

The record was rated a 6/10 by Hot Press, with Caroline Kelly observing: "With thirty-one tracks to journey through, Swift takes a long and winding road to that destination, frequently deconstructing her ivory-towered image along the way to remind us of the star-crossed romantic the world fell for."

Earlier this week, it was revealed that 1.5m copies of The Tortured Poets Department had already been sold, including 700,000 vinyl copies, meaning that Taylor Swift had smashed the record for weekly vinyl sales in just three days. Complete sales and streaming figures for the album's first full week will be released on Thursday.

In a recent Instagram statement, Swift called the album: “An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.“