Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are gearing up for the wedding of the year. Actually, it’s going to be the wedding of the century. The singer and Kansas City Chiefs tight end are expected to tie the knot before the Chiefs start their training camp in mid-to-late July, so the wedding is getting closer.
But, on the career side of things, Swift is still doing the media rounds for her 2025 studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which is a runaway hit. As of March, “The Life of a Showgirl” already has two No. 1 hits in “Opalite” and “The Life of Ophelia,” and it’s not slowing down.
Before “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19, 2024. It was another chart-topper for Swift, and it continues to gain listens and streams.
Taylor Swift Gets Positive Career News on Old Record
“The Tortured Poets Department” has reached a new milestone. The album has not been on the Billboard 200 chart for 100 weeks, according to research from Billboard.
The Billboard 200, according to Chart Data, is a “chart that ranks the best performing albums in the US each week, combining pure sales, TEA and SEA.” They add that TEA means track equivalent albums and is calculated by adding up all of the song sales from an album and dividing by 10. In turn, SEA is calculated by adding up all of the audio song streams from an album.
So, “The Tortured Poets Department” still has an audience roughly two years after its release. According to Forbes, “The Tortured Poets Department” is her 14th album to earn at least 100 turns on the rundown. “For most artists, seeing an album appear on the Billboard 200 100 times would be a dream come true and perhaps a once-in-a-career achievement,” Hugh McIntyre of Forber notes. “A number of major superstars have only witnessed a handful of their projects hitting that landmark.”
‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Still Has Life
So, “The Tortured Poets Department” still has life and still tops the charts. In an album review of the set at the time it came out, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard praised the album for its “sprawling risk-taking.” Maybe that’s why, as Audio Ink Radio points out, Swift is an artist respected by musicians of all genres, not just pop or country.
“The Tortured Poets Department is extreme in its emotions and uninterested in traditional hits; not everyone will love it, but the ones who get it will adore it fiercely,” he stated. “As Swift continues this current astonishing run of superstardom, she has once again pushed herself to strike a new pose. It’s what makes her special — and what turns ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ into yet another triumph.”
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone called it an “instant classic,” stating, “Taylor might be the self-proclaimed ‘Chairman of the Tortured Poets Department,’ but judging by these songs, business is booming. It’s the cathartic confession of a woman who thought she had adulthood — and adult romance — all figured out, only to find herself realizing she knows nothing.”
He added at the time that the album had “thirtysomething break-up tales” that were “new turf for her. She sounds confused, bitter, raging, vulnerable, yet more gloriously chaotic than we’ve ever heard her before.”
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