OK, just in case you haven’t heard Taylor Swift’s new album dropped on April 19, 2024. It’s titled “The Tortured Poets Department.” This is the 11th studio album by fourteen-time Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift. This album is already a hit on the first day of its release. Here are some of the facts that we dig into about her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
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Record-breaking album within 24 hours
According to Billboard, it’s already the album with the most streams in a single day on Spotify this year, and it hit that mark before noon. So it’s just breaking records every second. Not bad, even for somebody who surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify in the first 12 days of 2024.
The album sets a record for the highest stream within 24 hours of its release. According to the sources, The Tortured Poets Department shattered records with an unprecedented 200 million Spotify streams in a single day of its release.
The Tortured Poets Department made history even before its release, becoming Spotify’s most pre-saved album in an astonishingly short timeframe.
TTPD actually a Double Album
The name of the album “The Tortured Poets Department” is a direct reference to the WhatsApp group name. Taylor Swift has a history of writing music inspired by past relationships. It is widely believed that albums like “Red” and “Reputation” were inspired by past relationships and heartbreak.
The name of the WhatsApp group was the Tortured or The Lonely Tortured Man Club. In case you don’t know who the man was, it was Joe Allen. He and Taylor dated for 6 years, and he apparently had this group chat called The Tortured Man’s Club. Taylor and Joe announced their breakup almost a year ago, and so that makes The Tortured Poets Department her first real breakup album since Red and Red gave us one of the best Taylor Swift songs of all time.
Dissing Kim Kardashian?
Is Taylor Swift dissing Kim Kardashian in her new song? Fans seem to think so. There’s just a lot of noise following the release of her 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department. The singer dropped 15 additional tracks in the Anthology one including “Thank You Aimee” which seems to directly reference her Feud with Kim Kardashian.
The biggest clue is the song’s name. It has the letters k i and m in all caps spelling out her first name and she also sings I don’t think you changed so I changed your name and any real defining Clues the ways in which I like to surprise people are with my creative choices.
A Secret double Album
In a move that sent shockwaves through the music world, Taylor Swift has defied all expectations yet again, unleashing a surprise double album mere hours after the triumphant debut of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
Taylor released another 15 pieces of music titled “TTPD: The Anthology” just after the release of the main album and is available now on all the music streaming platforms. She wrote “It’s a 2 am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. ✌️ I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours. 🤍”
The Tortured Poets Department track listing
“The Tortured Poets Departments” includes a total of six department editions. It includes the Standard Editions, The Black Dog Edition, The Albatross Edition, The Bolter Edition, The Manuscript Edition, and The Anthology.
The total length of the album is 122.21 minutes. Here are the title, writer, producer, and length of each song.
The Tortured Poets Department standard edition track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone) | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Austin Post | 3:48 |
| 2. | “The Tortured Poets Department” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 4:53 |
| 3. | “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” | Taylor Swift | 3:23 |
| 4. | “Down Bad” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 4:21 |
| 5. | “So Long, London” | Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner | 4:22 |
| 6. | “But Daddy I Love Him” | Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff | 5:40 |
| 7. | “Fresh Out the Slammer” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 3:30 |
| 8. | “Florida!!!” (featuring Florence and the Machine) | Taylor Swift, Florence Welch, Jack Antonoff | 3:35 |
| 9. | “Guilty as Sin?” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 4:14 |
| 10. | “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” | Taylor Swift | 5:34 |
| 11. | “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 2:36 |
| 12. | “Loml” | Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner | 4:37 |
| 13. | “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 3:38 |
| 14. | “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” | Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner | 4:05 |
| 15. | “The Alchemy” | Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff | 3:16 |
| 16. | “Clara Bow” | Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner | 3:36 |
| Total length: | 65:08mins |
The Tortured Poets Department The Black Dog edition
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. | “The Black Dog” | Taylor Swift | 3:58 |
The Tortured Poets Department: The Albatross Edition
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. | “The Albatross” | Swift, Dessner | 3:03 |
The Tortured Poets Department: The Bolter Edition
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. | “The Bolter” | Swift, Dessner | 3:58 |
The Tortured Poets Department: The Manuscript Edition
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. | “The Manuscript” | Swift | 3:44 |
The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. | “The Black Dog” | Swift | 3:58 |
| 18. | “I’m Gonna Get You Back” | Swift | 3:42 |
| 19. | “The Albatross” | Swift, Dessner | 3:03 |
| 20. | “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” | Swift, Dessner | 3:33 |
| 21. | “How Did It End?” | Swift, Dessner | 3:58 |
| 22. | “So High School” | Swift, Dessner | 3:48 |
| 23. | “I Hate It Here” | Swift, Dessner | 4:03 |
| 24. | “Thank You Aimee” | Swift, Dessner | 4:23 |
| 25. | “I Look in People’s Windows” | Swift | 2:11 |
| 26. | “The Prophecy” | Swift, Dessner | 4:09 |
| 27. | “Cassandra” | Swift, Dessner | 4:00 |
| 28. | “Peter” | Swift | 4:43 |
| 29. | “The Bolter” | Swift, Dessner | 3:58 |
| 30. | “Robin” | Swift, Dessner | 4:00 |
| 31. | “The Manuscript” | Swift | 3:44 |
| Total length | 122:21 mins |