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Taylor Swift Celebrates Success of The Tortured Poets Department by Sharing Reviews and Song Lyrics
The singer released her 11th studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on April 19
Taylor Swift is buzzing about the response to her new album.
On Sunday, April 21, the “Fortnight” singer, 34, shared some positive reviews of The Tortured Poets Department on her Instagram Stories alongside some lyrics quoted from her new songs.
Swift first reposted Rolling Stone’s review, titled, ‘Come for the Torture, Stay for the Poetry’ with an ‘Instant Classic’ stamp added. In response she quoted a line from the title track of TTPD, “🤍And that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding🤍.”
The singer then reshared a five-star review of TTPD from U.K. newspaper The Times and quoted her song “The Alchemy” by writing “🤍These chemicals hit me like whiiiiite wiiiiine🤍.”
Swift also reposted U.K. outlet The Independent’s positive review of TTPD, which described the project as “Irresistible, country-hued tales of relationships past and present.” In her response, she quoted the lyric, “🤍everyone we know understands why it’s meant to be🤍,” taken from the title track of the album.
Swift released her 11th studio album TTPD on April 19 in a surprise double album drop with 31 tracks listed on the project.
The singer — who is currently dating NFL star Travis Kelce — has much to celebrate following the album’s release, after breaking multiple Spotify records with the project.
On the same day of TTPD’s release, Spotify confirmed in a news release shared with PEOPLE that Swift became the most streamed artist in one day and the artist with the most streamed album in one day with her new album achieving over 300 million streams.
On Saturday, April 20, Spotify also announced that Swift’s single “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone from the new album was the most-streamed song in a single day in the streaming platform’s history.
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Swift now has the top three most streamed albums in a single day in Spotify history with Midnights, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and TTPD.
Speaking about her new album on Instagram on April 19, Swift wrote “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍”
