Taylor Swift breaks first week album sales record, BTS juniors sadly "smell the smoke"

Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department", was officially released on April 19, quickly creating a fever in the music market. After only one week of release, the album achieved impressive sales of 2.61 million copies.

This achievement marks a new milestone in Taylor Swift's music career and affirms her dominant position in the music industry.

"The Tortured Poets Department" not only set records for album sales but also recorded other impressive achievements on streaming platforms. Highest on-demand streams ever in a single week with 891.37 million streams, the album surpassed the previous record held by Drake with 745.92 million for the album "Scorpion " in 2018.

The highest single-week vinyl sales for any album in the modern era was selling 859,000 double LPs on vinyl in the first week of release, surpassing the previous record held by Taylor Swift herself with 693,000 version for the album "1989 (Taylor's Version)" in 2023.

With impressive achievements, "The Tortured Poets Department" promises to continue to dominate music charts in the near future and bring Taylor Swift to new heights in her music career.

Besides, Taylor Swift officially beat the legendary British band The Beatles to win the record for the fastest artist to win 12 number one positions in the UK. The Tortured Poets Department delivered the biggest opening weekend for an album in the UK in the past 7 years, meaning Taylor Swift surpassed Madonna, becoming the female artist with the most singles released in the UK. It is known that The Tortured Poets Department is the most streamed album in one at Spotify, reaching more than 1 billion streams.

However, Taylor Swift's new album also received many mixed opinions. Some people think that the album is nothing special and is a slowdown in Taylor Swift's music. The reason given is because the number of songs is too many (31 songs), the writing time is limited because Taylor Swift participates in many different activities, and the music quality has not had a breakthrough compared to the previous one. previous albums.

In The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift is said to hint at many people, from old enemy Kim Kardashian to current lover Travis Kelce. However, fans believe that the central character of the 11th studio album of "Country Music Princess" is her ex-lover Joe Alwyn.

During their passionate relationship, Taylor wrote nearly 20 songs dedicated to her boyfriend who is 2 years younger, with many sweet words. In particular, the album Lover (2019) most clearly shows the passion that the blonde beauty has for Joe. The most typical are Lover, London Boy, Paper King...

It can be said that among the group of ex-lovers, Joe Alwyn received the most love from Taylor and also gave her the most inspiration for her writing. And her fans suspect these 31 songs are about her ex-lover even though Taylor never revealed the identities of the people she included in her music.

And on the other hand, many newspapers also put out a ranking of the 10 worst lyrics in "The Tortured Poets Department". Many people think that Taylor Swift can't even keep up her form with writing lyrics, many parts sound very bad. "cringy" is cheesy and old. Many audiences joke that no poet is "miserable", the listeners themselves are "miserable" when they have to listen to an album with melodies that don't change too much and sometimes the audience doesn't even know what to do. I know there's a new song.

But "The Tortured Poets Department" many fans and experts think the songs sound similar to many other breakup-themed songs Taylor Swift has written. The topic is not too new, the metaphors in the lyrics are not groundbreaking, the music is like a combination of a few previous albums but still typical of pop. Many people are quite fed up with the synth bass lines used by Jack Antonoff in so many songs. Taylor Swift also seems to have no one to edit her lyrics anymore.

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