“Feeling completely overwhelmed,” she added, a three-word response that perfectly captured her reaction to the album’s success.

Additionally, Taylor couldn’t hide her excitement about her impending tour across Europe. “I was already so fired up to get back to the tour but you doing THIS??

“May 9th can’t come soon enough,” she exclaimed.

Among several snaps accompanying her jubilant post, Taylor included behind-the-scenes pictures taken during the recording process, as well as memorable moments with Post Malone and Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine), who are both collaborators on the album’s songs Fortnight and Florida respectively.

Despite being her eleventh studio album, it’s her 14th to top the Billboard Top 200 chart when you include her re-recorded albums. Her first number-one album was Fearless in 2008.

Since then, every album has debuted at number one – Speak Now (2010); Red (2012); 1989 (2014); Reputation (2017); Lover (2019); Folklore (2020); Evermore (2020); Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in 2021; Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021; Midnights (2022); Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) in 2023; 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in 2023; and of course, The Tortured Poets Department.

Taylor now holds the record for the most debut number-one albums by a female solo artist.

She’s tied with Jay-Z at 14, and both are chasing The Beatles who had 19.

The Tortured Poets Department also smashed the record for the most streams in its debut week with an impressive 891.37 million streams.

It surpassed the previous record holder, Drake’s 2018 album Scorpion which had 745.92 million in its debut week.

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