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Variety reports:

Taylor Swift can’t quit breaking her own records. After Spotify revealed Friday that “The Tortured Poets Department” had become the first album in the DSP’s history to amass 200 million streams in a single day, the service updated that news early Saturday, to report that first-day streams actually surpassed 300 million, when all was said and done and counted.

“History made!” the company tweeted. “On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department was the first album in Spotify history to have over 300M streams in a single day.”

On top of that, “Fortnight,” the album’s Post Malone-featuring first single, set the record as the platform’s most-streamed song in a single day, topping Adele’s “Easy on Me” (set in 2021)

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Taylor Swift can’t quit breaking her own records.

“The Tortured Poets Department” already broke a record with 200 million first-day streams at Spotify. Now the service reveals it actually surpassed 300 million. https://t.co/znZxO6iWM6

— Variety (@Variety) April 20, 2024