The Swift Sweep, the Taylor Takeover. Call it what you will, just expect�Taylor Swift�to dominate the�U.K.�charts with�The Tortured Poets Department. Read more: Stevie Nicks Predicted Taylor Swift’s Rise to Music Industry Power.
When the Official U.K. Singles Chart is publi<a href="shed Friday, April 26, Swift will add to her tally of 26 U.K. top 10 singles, and is forecast to nab a fourth No. 1, after �Look What You Made Me Do� (from 2017), �cardigan� (2020) and �Is It Over Now? (Taylor�s Version)� (2023).
Based on early sales and streaming data crunched by the Official Charts Company, Swift�s collaboration with Post Malone, �Fortnight,� the opening track and first official single from Tortured Poets, is in pole position, ahead of the title track and �So Long, London,� respectively.
Swift�s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department is already a global record-beater.
As previously reported, the pop superstar�s latest effort on Friday (April 19) became the first album in the streaming service�s history to accumulate more than 300 million streams in a single day.
Earlier, in less than 12 hours after its release, Tortured Poets, became Spotify�s most streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far. The 31-track double albumbested the previous record-holder, Beyonc�s Billboard 200-topping Cowboy Carter, which ultimately earned 300.41 million on-demand official streams in its first full week of release.
Also, �Fortnight,� co-written by Swift, Malone and Jack Antonoff, and co-produced by Swift and Antonoff. became Spotify�s most streamed song in a single day.
In the U.K., Tortured Poets will be expected to set the pace in the chart race. Swift currently has 11 No. 1 albums there. She�s the first and only artist this century to rack up 10 U.K. No. 1 albums, the Official Charts Company reports, and only the second female artist ever to do so, following Madonna. If Tortured Poets debuts at No. 1 later this week, Swift will draw level with Madonna on 12 U.K. leaders.
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