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what you said about cassandra EXACTLY like "thats where i was when i lost it all" feels so about her masters

And it starts off with her already "patching up the crack along the wall" which to me indicates we are in 2019.

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I think you're onto something with Cassandra being about the sale of her masters, but with it being underpinned by everything she said in 2016 being ignored. I am thinking specifically about this part:

They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time That I was onto something The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line They all said nothing Blood's thick but nothing like a payroll Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul You can mark my words that I said it first In a morning warning, no one heard

She said at one point every single conversation she had with Scott B. about Scooter was her crying about him. Blood's thick but nothing like a payroll. And the Christian chorus line is clearly Hillsong Church crew. And there has been a lot said about how horrible Scooter is for his clients, but of course when Taylor spoke against him she was the one who was called out.

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#why TTPD is so mind-blowing #the vulnerability

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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As expected, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department makes a gigantic debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4), securing the superstar her 14th chart-topping album. She ties Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists in the nearly-70-year history of the chart. Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more.

The Tortured Poets Department launches with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, with traditional album sales (purchases of digital download albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) comprising 1.914 million of that sum. Of that sales figure, vinyl sales represent a staggering 859,000. The collected 31 songs on the deluxe edition of the album generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.

Those eye-popping figures mark the largest streaming week for an album ever, the second-largest week for an album (by total equivalent album units earned) since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014, the third-largest sales week (by traditional album sales) in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991) and the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 4, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 30. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week unit sum of 2.61 million, album sales comprise 1.914 million (a number bolstered by its availability across more than 20 different iterations of the album), SEA units comprise 683,000 (equaling 891.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 31 songs, on its deluxe edition) and TEA units comprise 14,000. (All figures are rounded.)

With 1.914 million sold, The Tortured Poets Department is instantly the top-selling album of 2024, year-to-date. The second-biggest selling album, counting weekly sales from January through the present, is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, with 228,000 copies sold in total.

Swift announced the album during the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, and her official webstore began accepting pre-orders for the project that same day. The set was released on April 19, alongside its first single, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone.

The Tortured Poets Department (abbreviated as TTPD) was initially released at midnight ET on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as an array of 17-song physical configurations (more details on the assorted versions later in this story). Two hours after the album’s release, Swift announced an expanded 31-song edition of the set and released it as a digital download and streaming album. She wrote: “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

Swift’s 14th No. 1 on the Billboard 200

With a 14th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, Swift ties Jay-Z for the most chart-toppers among soloists. Overall, only The Beatles have more, with 19 leaders. All 14 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and rerecorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department have debuted at No. 1.

Here’s a look at the acts with at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

19, The Beatles 14, Jay-Z 14, Taylor Swift 13, Drake 11, Bruce Springsteen 11, Barbra Streisand 11, Ye (formerly Kanye West) 10, Eminem 10, Future 10, Elvis Presley

Largest Streaming Week Ever

The Tortured Poets Department’s collected 31 songs on its deluxe edition generated 891.37 million on-demand official streams in the week ending April 25 in the U.S. That marks the single-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total combined streams for its songs. Here’s a recap of the top 10 largest streaming weeks for albums (all were debut weeks):

Rank, Artist, Title, Streams, Chart Date 1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 891.37 million, May 4, 2024 2, Drake, Scorpion, 745.92 million, July 14, 2018 3, Drake, Certified Lover Boy, 743.67 million, Sept. 18, 2021 4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 549.26 million, Nov. 5, 2022 5, Drake, For All the Dogs, 514.01 million, Oct. 21, 2023 6, Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss, 513.56 million, Nov. 19, 2022 7, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 498.28 million, March 18, 2023 8, Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V, 433.02 million, Oct. 13, 2018 9, Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys, 431.34 million, May 12, 2018 10, Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die, 422.63 million, July 25, 2020 (Streaming data source: Luminate)

Largest Streaming Week Ever

The Tortured Poets Department’s collected 31 songs on its deluxe edition generated 891.37 million on-demand official streams in the week ending April 25 in the U.S. That marks the single-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total combined streams for its songs. Here’s a recap of the top 10 largest streaming weeks for albums (all were debut weeks):

Rank, Artist, Title, Streams, Chart Date 1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 891.37 million, May 4, 2024 2, Drake, Scorpion, 745.92 million, July 14, 2018 3, Drake, Certified Lover Boy, 743.67 million, Sept. 18, 2021 4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 549.26 million, Nov. 5, 2022 5, Drake, For All the Dogs, 514.01 million, Oct. 21, 2023 6, Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss, 513.56 million, Nov. 19, 2022 7, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 498.28 million, March 18, 2023 8, Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V, 433.02 million, Oct. 13, 2018 9, Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys, 431.34 million, May 12, 2018 10, Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die, 422.63 million, July 25, 2020 (Streaming data source: Luminate)

Third-Largest Sales Week in Modern Era

The Tortured Poets Department sold 1.914 million copies in traditional album sales in its first week (purchases of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassette tapes). That marks the third-largest sales week for an album in the modern era — since Luminate began electronically tracking music sales in 1991.

The Tortured Poets Department’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 19 different physical configurations (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes, with four of the physical configurations exclusively sold by Target stores) and two digital download offerings (the standard 16-song album, and a surprise deluxe 31-song edition that was released two hours after the original album bowed). All of the variants are itemized later in this story.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week sales of 1.914 million, physical sales comprise 1.64 million (859,000 vinyl LPs — a modern-era single week record for an album on vinyl, 759,500 CDs and a little over 21,500 cassettes) and digital downloads comprise 274,000.

The Tortured Poets Department is the seventh Swift album to have sold at least 1 million copies in a single week, following the debuts of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with seven different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the modern era. In total, there have been 26 instances — by 24 different albums — in which an album has sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks.

Six of the top 10 million-selling weeks occurred in the early 2000s, in the pre-digital and pre-streaming heyday of the CD — when essentially the only way to listen to music on-demand was by purchasing an album. The year 2000 was the high-water mark in the modern era for album sales, when 785 million albums were sold in the U.S. Comparably, in 2023, there were 105.32 million albums sold, and Swift sold the most of any act — accounting for 6% of all U.S. album sales in 2023. (Popular streaming services Spotify and Apple Music did not launch in the U.S. until 2011 and 2015, respectively.)

Here’s a recap of the top 10 biggest-selling weeks by albums in the modern era (1991-present), ranked in order by sales volume.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date 1, Adele, 25, 3.378 million, Dec. 12, 2015 2, *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2.416 million, April 8, 2000 3, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 1.914 million, May 4, 2024 4, *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1.88 million, Aug. 11, 2001 5, Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1.76 million, June 10, 2000 6, Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1.591 million, Dec. 9, 2000 7, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.359 million, Nov. 11, 2023 8, Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1.322 million, June 15, 2002* 9, Britney Spears, Oops! …I Did It Again, 1.319 million, June 3, 2000 10, Taylor Swift, 1989, 1.287 million, Nov. 15, 2014 (Sales source: Luminate. *All weeks are debuts, except for The Eminem Show, which debuted on the chart dated June 8, 2002, from a partial week of sales due to an off-cycle early release. The June 15, 2002, chart reflected the album’s first week of availability.)

Biggest Sales Week for a Vinyl Album in Modern Era

Swift continues to be a dominant force when it comes to vinyl album sales, as The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week vinyl figure of 859,000 is the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era. Swift has the top four-selling weeks on vinyl, and six of the top 10-selling weeks.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date 1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 859,000, May 4, 2024 2, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 693,000, Nov. 11, 2023 3, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 575,000, Nov. 5, 2022 4, Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 268,000, July 22, 2023 5, Harry Styles, Harry’s House, 182,000, June 4, 2022 6, Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version), 114,000, Nov. 27, 2021 7, Adele, 30, 108,000, Dec. 4, 2021 8, Taylor Swift, Evermore, 102,000, June 12, 2021 9, Olivia Rodrigo, Guts, 94,000, Sept. 23, 2023 10, Travis Scott, Utopia, 93,000, Aug. 26, 2023 (Sales source: Luminate; all weeks reflect albums’ first week of availability on vinyl.)

In 2023, Swift loomed so large on vinyl that her 1989 (Taylor’s Version) became the first vinyl album in the modern era to sell 1 million copies in a calendar year. Further, in 2023, Swift accounted for 7% of all vinyl album sales in the U.S. From 2021 through 2023, vinyl albums were the leading configuration for album purchases in the U.S. Vinyl was the dominant configuration for album purchases in the U.S. up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD configuration blossomed and remained king until 2021, when vinyl retook the top slot.

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records set by the tortured poets department:

taylor's 14th billboard 200 no. 1, tying the record for the most-ever among solo artists, and second to the beatles overall

largest-ever streaming week for an an album

second largest total week for an album since streaming/units began to count

1.914m pure sales, marking the third-largest week since 1991 (modern era)

859,000 vinyl sales, setting a single-week record

only artist with seven different albums to sell at least 1 million copies in a single week

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Taylor via Twitter, 4/28/2024

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Taylor via Instagram, 4/28/2024 (x)

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I keep coming back to how much Taylor did not need to release this record and how much courage it shows that she did. These lyrics touch on it:

The scandal was contained

The bullet had just grazed

At all costs keep your good name

Because things ended with MH and people generally stopped talking about it and she kept just winning. The general public saw her as at the top of her game and America’s Sweetheart dating the football star. The Brads, Dads, and Chads had something to say but she actually seemed to have more defenders than ever before. Like this is the most recent image the general public has of her

And she chose to put out this one.

She wasn’t on trial anymore, the scandal was contained, so she didn’t need to put in a plea, but she does actually want people to know and understand her

I want to snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me

She’s trusting us with her feelings when she absolutely didn’t have to and we should appreciate it for the gift it is

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Old lady two cents:

It’s a bummer but, I think part of growing up is realizing you can’t just declare you’re over something, say it’s buried and then you’ll be magically healed (no matter how poetically you word it).

You just have to go through the big sad, bad feelings for as long as it takes to get to the other side, without running from them or numbing them away.

And, sometimes, you might have to put in some real dirty, hard, uncomfortable work to fix the house instead of boarding it up and abandoning it.

Because if you don’t, those boarded up houses will haunt you for the rest of your life.

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betweentwobooks: A very special recommendation from Taylor Swift and The Tortured Poets Department: ‘Red’ by Ted Hughes. What are your favourite poems? (x)

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The critics are changing their minds about TTPD

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/26/entertainment/taylor-swift-album-quick-to-judge/index.html

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"i cry a lot but i am so productive" on merch when?? us high functioning depressed people are WAITINGGGGG

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After its first six days of release in the U.S., Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has broken the single-week streaming record in the U.S. for an album, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate.

The collected 31 songs across the deluxe edition of The Tortured Poets Department generated 799 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. on April 19-24. It breaks the record for the largest streaming week for an album, previously set by the opening frame of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million for its 25 songs in 2018).

Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story reflect U.S. consumption only. The current tracking week ends on April 25.

The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales and streaming figures) are expected to be announced by Billboard on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4).

The Tortured Poets Department earned 2.5 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first six days. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 1.85 million.

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

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john green defending TTPD on twitter I know that’s right

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Back after Singapore, all her dancers were posting on Insta and just HAPPENED to all be in LA when she was there (and TK was in and out of her house) and all my IRL people heard me speculating “she’s in rehearsals to add TTPD before Paris”.

Vindicated!!