Taylor Swift has released a “thank you” letter to her fans/small army of enthusiastic and loyal followers, thanking them for helping her break Spotify to shreds again today.
Specifically, tonight’s music streaming service announced that Swift’s new album midnight He managed to break past records for “most album streams in a day” – and didn’t have to wait a full 24 hours for it to play. Spotify has not released specific numbers for midnight and his one-day performance, but we know who defeated Swift to score that honor: Bad Bunny, who On Verano Sin T Published her own recordwith 183 million broadcasts on the first day, in September 2021.
(Meanwhile, Swift only has herself to contend when looking only at first-day female artist streams: Per GuinnessAnd the midnight He broke Swift’s record in this category last year with Red (Taylor version)Which, in turn, broke the record she had set folklore back in 2020. Guinness Says red It recorded 90.8 million streams in its first 24 hours on Spotify back in 2021, which means midnight has exploded road That number exceeded today.)
Swift was delighted with the news by using 7 different end-of-sentence punctuation in just two sentences, writing on Twitter tonight, “How lucky I am, having been here doing something mind-blowing?! Like what just happened???!?!” Meanwhile , armies midnight continue posting; Swift followed up the album’s initial release late last night with a 3 am edition that arrived even later; I followed who – which with “Anti-Hero” video released this morning, with more in the following days. Really, it’s (Taylor’s version), and we’re just living it.
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