This had secured a record lasting 47 years which had a reputation for being unbeatable – until now.
Unsurprisingly, megastar Taylor Swift, 34, has achieved the same incredible feat in just 11 years and six months with The Tortured Poets Department.
This makes the ME! hitmaker the only artist to have 12 consecutive albums reach the coveted top spot in as many years.
Her latest album has truly caused a stir and while everyone paternity tested her song lyrics, TTPD broke records left right and centre.
Spotify announced it had become the most streamed album in a single day as well as the first album ever to be streamed a billion times — in just five days.
The album has shifted 270,000 UK chart units, according to Official Charts Company data, which has eclipsed her previous record of 204,000 in seven days, which she achieved when her 2022 album Midnights was released.
Every single album since Red, released in October 2012, has landed Taylor a number one spot in the UK album chart.
The pop star is due to begin the European and UK/Ireland leg of her huge career-spanning tour in Paris on May 9. Since wrapping up the previous run of shows in early March, Swift has released her 11th studio record ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
Swift now has joint highest number of chart-toppers for a female artist, as The Tortured Poets Department earns biggest opening week in seven years.
Swift also dominates this week’s singles chart, with three songs in the Top Five including a No 1 for Fortnight, featuring Post Malone. It’s her fourth No 1 single, and her third chart double.
In case you’ve always wondered what Taylor Swift would look like with Post Malone‘s face tattoos, “Fortnight” is the video for you.
On Friday night (April 19), Swift unveiled the video for “Fortnight,” featuring Malone. It’s the first visual from her brand-new 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, and it goes alongside the project’s first single, co-written by Swift, Malone and Jack Antonoff and co-produced by Swift and Antonoff.
In the trippy video, Post’s tattoos end up on Taylor’s face as she appears to wipe her face clean, only to reveal a face full of ink instead. In apparent flashback scenes, both of the musicians are fresh-faced, as Swift runs into the arms of a tattoo-free Malone.
Echoing the song’s lyrical references to institution (like the opening line: “I was supposed to be sent away/ But they forgot to come and get me”), the video shows Swift’s character going through electrotherapy and trying to break out of an all-white room.
Swift took to her social media accounts after the video’s release to marvel at the finished product and the collaborators who helped her achieve it.
“When I was writing the Fortnight music video, I wanted to show you the worlds I saw in my head that served as the backdrop for making this music,” she wrote.
“Pretty much everything in it is a metaphor or a reference to one corner of the album or another. For me, this video turned out to be the perfect visual representation of this record and the stories I tell in it. Post Malone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration. I’m still laughing from getting to work with the coolest guys on earth, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the hall, the dead poets).
I still can’t believe I get to work with the unfathomably brilliant Rodrigo Prieto on cinematography and my team of dream collaborators: Ethan Tobman (production design), Chancler Haynes (editor), Anthony Dimino (1st AD), Jil Hardin (producer) and Dom Thomas (executive producer).
Parliament aced the VFX as always. Joseph Cassell, Lorrie Turk and Jemma Muradian made these tortured looks come to life. The entire crew made this a dream to shoot. Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who has watched it!
