Taylor Swift hits 1bn Spotify streams in a week with Tortured Poets Department

Swift’s new album breaks another streaming record after already becoming the platform’s most-streamed album in a day

Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department has become the first to reach 1bn Spotify streams in a week.

The platform announced on X that with two days to go, it had become the “most-streamed album in a single week” and had surpassed a billion with the exact number undisclosed.