Taylor Swift Rakes In Success for Each of Her Ranking Albums Even As ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Sets New Highs

Published 03/31/2024, 2:28 PM EDT

The mettle of an artist comes from their core, but their ability to push sales and revenue comes from success measured through the metric of the movement in charts. An artist of the stature of Taylor Swift tends to frequent the Billboard top ranks and more often than not happens to dominate several of those at once. The current scenario also stays unsurprisingly similar with the 34-year-old pop star now likely calling the place her forever home with the only direction in headway staying upwards.

An analysis of the awe-studded success of the singer reveals an interesting trend that stands too remarkable to dismiss.

Taylor Swift is climbing steadily on Billboard but not alone

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The scene of music shifted a little in the span of the last two months with big-ticket releases from the likes of Ye, formerly Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign, Ariana Grande, and Beyoncé. Unfazed by the emergence of such new entrants, the latest Billboard Top Album Sales chart carries a staggering eight albums from Taylor Swift out of the total fifty in its rankings. Remarkably, each of those albums moved to a higher position than their ranks just a week prior, despite releasing months or even years before.

The ‘Anti-Hero’ singer also boasts four of her albums in the top tens, of which ‘Folklore’ has stayed on for a staggering 191 weeks. The highest-rated album by her stands as ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)' at fourth position and recording a growth of over 13% in one week. Similarly, ‘Fearless’ surged by more than 25%, ‘Evermore’ by 12%, ‘Midnights’ by 13%, ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ by more than 9.6%, and ‘Red’ by more than twice of its previous standings.

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The upsurge marks a boon for the singer who lies on the verge of launching her new album, which has already scripted record highs.

The Tortured Poets Department stands alongside a decades-old Michael Jackson release

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Taylor Swift has come remarkably close to etching a larger-than-life persona for herself as her upcoming release, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ remains set to sell over 1 million vinyl units within just the first week of its scheduled April 19 release. The sheer sales numbers will bring the singer to debut with a figure last achieved in 1987 by Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’.

Carrying a total of four different editions - ‘The Manuscript’, ‘The Bolter’, ‘The Albatross’, and ‘The Black Dog’, the upcoming album will also compete with fresh releases like ‘Cowboy Carter’ from Beyoncé. The stage stays set for Taylor Swift to mark probably the biggest of her album releases.

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What are your thoughts on Taylor Swift taking all her albums to success ahead of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’? Let us know in the comments below.

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Imteshal Karim

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Imteshal Karim is a Hollywood News reporter at NetflixJunkie. With a penchant for writing in multiple forms, he is a published writer with his works published in anthologies. A star at his college’s writing competitions, he loves telling a good story and hopes to tell impactful ones about the unexplored side of the Entertainment industry.

Edited By: Sakshi Jain

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