Most streamed album by a female artist in one week (USA)

Taylor Swift’s (USA) The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD) accumulated 891.34 million on-demand official streams when it debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200 in the week ending 4 May 2024. Swift’s 15th studio album obliterated both her own female record of 549.26 million streams (for Midnights on 5 November 2022) and the absolute record set by Drake when Scorpion notched up 745.92 million on-demand official streams on its way to a No.1 debut on 14 July 2018.

Figures published by Spotify for the week starting 19 April 2024 revealed that 14 tracks from the standard edition of The Tortured Poets Department debuted at positions 1-14 on the platform’s “Weekly Top Songs USA” chart. The most listened-to track from the album was “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone), with just over 39 million plays across the week in Swift’s homeland.