19-05-2025
Taylor Swift Earns Major Accomplishment on Wednesday
Taylor Swift continues to prove that she can do it with a broken heart. Fans on social media noticed that her latest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," hit a major accomplishment on Wednesday.
According to @SwiftyRuza on X, the album has now surpassed 1.1 billion streams on Spotify in 2025 alone. The X user is known in the Swiftie community to post daily album updates, Spotify streams, charts and milestones of the Grammy-winning singer.
The album consists of some of Swift's most popular songs, including "Fortnight (featuring Post Malone)" and "I Can Do It With A Broken Heart."
From its dramatic and heartwrenching lyrics in "So Long, London" and "The Smallest Man to Ever Live" to songs that capture the butterflies and excitement of having a crush such as "Guilty as Sin?" and "But Daddy I Love Him," her eleventh studio album, co-produced by Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, has touched the hearts of many Swifties.
"The Tortured Poets Department" was announced during the 2024 Grammys after the 35-year-old singer won Best Pop Vocal Album for her 2022 album "Midnights." "TTPD" was then released on April 19, 2024, along with a double-album two hours later titled "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," which featured 15 more songs.
The album is widely rumored to be about her previous relationships with Joe Alwyn, whom she dated from late 2016 to April 2023, and The 1975's lead singer, Matty Healy, to whom she was first linked in 2014 and briefly dated again in the summer of 2023. Some of the songs that are included in the double-album, such as "So High School," are about her current boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce.
This news comes out after Swift's big win at Tuesday evening's BMI Pop Awards. Four out of the seven songs that earned Most Performed Songs of the Year were a part of "TTPD," including "Down Bad,' 'Fortnight (featuring Post Malone),' "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" and "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart."
Other songs that won Most Performed Songs of the Year include "Don't Blame Me," from her 2017 album "Reputation," as well as "Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" and "Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)," both from the re-recorded version of her 2014 album "1989."
Swift also took home BMI's Songwriter of the Year award.
