Taylor Swift's “The Tortured Poets Department” topped this week's new song poll.
Music fans voted in a poll released Friday (April 19) on Billboard, choosing the pop superstar's new double album as their favorite new music release of the past week.
The Tortured Poets category received nearly 75% of the votes, surpassing DJ Snake's new song (“Teka”) featuring Peso Pluma. Nicki Minaj featuring Travis Scott, Chris Brown, Sexy Red (“FTCU (Remix)”) Pearl Jam (Dark Matter); and Cloud Nothing (Final Summer).
“The Tortured Poets Department'' is Swift's 11th studio album and her first release of new music since 2022's Grammy Award-winning “Midnight.'' The 31-track double album features collaborations with Florence and the Machine and Post Malone, as well as writing and production by Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.
Swift described the project on Instagram as “an anthology of new works reflecting events, opinions, and emotions in fleeting, fatalistic moments that are sensational and equally sad.” This period of the author's life has already ended, the chapter is closed and covered with a board. There is nothing to take revenge on, no scores to settle once the wounds heal. When I thought about it further, I realized that a significant number of them were self-inflicted. This writer firmly believes that our tears become sacred in the form of ink on a page. Once we tell our saddest stories, we are freed from them. ”
The Tortured Poets Department is Swift's first album of new music since Midnight, but in the intervening years she's been steadily pumping out re-recorded Taylor versions. Between those two albums, Swift topped the Billboard 200 with both Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version), the latter extending the star's record. This is the band's sixth album, and the first to have pure sales of over 1 million copies. week.
Tortured Poets Department is already off to a strong start in the U.S., according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. On its first day of release on Friday (April 19), the set achieved traditional album sales. It sold 1.4 million copies. This is Swift's biggest selling week ever for an album in the US.
Tortured Poets Division had also broken numerous records on Spotify at the time of writing. That includes his first album in the service's history to surpass 300 million streams in a single day. The set's first single, “Fortnite,” featuring Post Malone, also became his most streamed song of the day on Spotify.
Trailing The Tortured Poets Department in the polls is DJ Snake and Peso Pluma's dancefloor hit “Teca,” just in time for Peso's performance at Coachella this weekend. Ta. This team-up gave him 10% of the votes.
See below for the final results of this week's new song release poll.