Taylor Swift topped the British music charts on Friday with The Tortured Poets Department, outselling the rest of the top 10 combined and beating the Beatles for the record of fastest artiste to rack up 12 UK number one albums.
Poets delivered the biggest opening week for an album in the United Kingdom in seven years, and means Swift ties Madonna for female artiste with the most UK number one albums in Official Albums Chart history.
“No other artiste has notched up 12 number one albums in such a short space of time. Taylor Swift has done it in 11 years and six months,” the Official Charts Company said. “This surpasses The Beatles, who managed the feat in 14 years and 1 month.”
Swift’s first single from the album Fortnight, a collaboration with Post Malone, topped the UK singles chart.
Poets also topped charts in Australia and is set to do the same in the United States.
Soon after its release last Friday, Spotify and Amazon Music said the recording was their most streamed album in a day.
On Wednesday, Spotify said Poets was its most-streamed album in a single week, surpassing 1 billion streams.
