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Traditional album sales totaled 1.91 million in the week ending
April 25 between digital download albums, CDs, cassettes and
also included 859,000 vinyl sales, Billboard said, citing data
from Luminate. The album generated 891.34 million on-demand
official streams.
The album scored the largest streaming week for an album ever
and the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern
era, Billboard said. It is also the top-selling album so far in
2024.
It was Swift's 14th chart-topping album, tying with Jay-Z for
the most No. 1s among soloists.
Swift released the first 16 tracks of "Poets" on April 19. Two
hours later, she surprised fans by revealing it was a double
album with 15 more songs.
It was the 11th studio album from the 34-year-old record-setting
singer, who won an unprecedented fourth album of the year award
at February's Grammys for "Midnights."
Last week, Spotify said "Poets" was its most-streamed album in a
single week, surpassing 1 billion streams.
Swift also topped the British music charts on Friday, outselling
the rest of the top 10 combined and beating the Beatles for the
record of fastest artist to rack up 12 UK number one albums.
"Poets," distributed by Universal Music Group, received mostly
positive reviews from critics and fans.
Swift will resume her Eras Tour, the highest-grossing concert
tour in history, in Paris in May.
She is among several of music's top female artists releasing
albums this spring. Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter" debuted in March,
and Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish have releases scheduled for next
month.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Mary Milliken; Editing by Lisa
Shumaker)
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