Taylor Swift’s “Department of Tortured Poets” wasn’t just good. According to Billboard, it was “historic.”

If you can’t get enough of Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” you’re not alone. Billboard said Sunday that the long-awaited album made a “historic” debut that tied her with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists, as the album had the “biggest week of streaming for an album of all time”.

“The Department of Tortured Poets” was released on April 19, featuring more than two dozen tracks said to revolve around several of Swift’s relationships, including 1975 singer Matty Healy, actor Joe Alwyn and current lover, Kansas Chiefs tight end City Travis Kelce.

Billboard said the album, announced by Swift during her Grammy acceptance speech in February, made a “gigantic debut”, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, which ranks the most popular albums of a week in the United States. The milestone marks the 34-year-old pop star’s 14th chart-topping album, Billboard said. , tied with hip-hop mogul Jay-Z for having the most No. 1 albums among soloists.

Each of Swift’s studio albums and full-length projects since the release of “Fearless” in 2008 has debuted at No. 1. She and Jay-Z are trailed only by the Beatles for most No. 1s, who have 19. Of the 10 artists who have had at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, Swift is just one of two women, the other being Barbra Streisand, who has had 11 No. 1s, tied with Bruce Springsteen and Ye, the former rapper like Kanye West.

The album also reached a new milestone: “the biggest streaming week for an album ever,” Billboard said, with 891.34 million sales. official feeds of the 31 songs on the album.

“The Department of Tortured Poets” recorded 2.61 million equivalent album units earned as of the end of last week. Digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPS and cassettes accounted for 1.914 million of that total. Vinyl sales alone were monumental, with 859,000 album units earned, marking “the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era,” Billboard said.

Swift’s latest record far surpassed Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” for the best-selling album of 2024. While “Cowboy Carter” sold 228,000 copies, “The Tortured Poets Department” reached more than 1.9 million sales.