Fortnight one of the records on Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department album has not only seen increasing streaming figures on YouTube but is also one of the most streamed songs on Spotify.
According to an independent monitoring outlet, the song has so far exceeded 200 million streams on Spotify. The official video for the song on YouTube also reached 52 million views as Thursday, May 9, 2024.
These remarkable records indicate how widely listeners have accepted the new album, justifying Taylor Swift’s position as a leading recording artiste in recent years.
It will be recalled that the much-anticipated album arrived on Thursday, April 19, 2024. The single Fortnight (featuring Post Malone) it has appeared online a day before the official release of the album.
After releasing the official video for Fortnight, Taylor Swift expressed lots of compliments to Post Malone, saying she had always “been such a huge fan” of the Sunflower crooner.
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The Tortured Poets Department recorded 1.4 million copies in traditional album sales in the US on the first day it was released, becoming Swift’s best-ever record sales week in the United States.
In addition, 243.4 million official on-demand audio streams of the album’s 31 tracks were made in the United States, with Fortnight, accounting for 18.4 million of the total stream figures.
The project is described by Taylor as “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time.” She said the experiences documented in the form of lyrics on the album were “both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure” but that period of her life was “now over.”
“…The chapter is closed and boarded up…There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted,” she wrote about the album last month.