This is Taylor’s 10th studio album. Source: Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights has already broken records within the first week of its release, breaking a Billboard Top 10 record.
The 32-year-old singer was ecstatic to find out that her album had made her the first artist in history to claim the Top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.
“10 out of 10 of the Hot 100??? On my 10th album??? I AM IN SHAMBLES,” she said on social media.
Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights. Which is out now
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 21, 2022
Her songs Anti-Hero, Lavender Haze, Maroon, Snow on The Beach, Midnight Rain, Bejeweled, Question…?, You’re On Your Own, Kid, Karma and Vigilante Shit are the songs that occupy the Top 10 spots.
The previous record belonged to Drake who occupied nine of the Top 10 spots on the US Billboard Hot 100.
It’s not the first record Taylor Swift has broken recently. On the release day of her album, Midnights became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in the music platforms history while there were also 72.5 million streams in the first week.
She also had the biggest first week sales of any album this year to surpass Harry Styles and his album Harry’s House. Another milestone includes being the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have songs occupy the Top 10 spots.
It was reported by Spotify that their servers crashed several minutes after the album was released because of the high volume of listeners.
Here’s the teaser trailer for the videos I’ve made for Midnights 🌌 Thank you @amazonmusic for premiering this, the first video for Anti-Hero will be out tomorrow at 8am ET. And Midnights will be here SO SOON!!!https://t.co/jjqUNkpPke pic.twitter.com/xzmqXa5Cqy
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 21, 2022
Swift says that inspiration behind the album came from “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life”.
One of her songs Lavender Haze is about her long-time boyfriend actor Joe Alwyn, who she rarely speaks about but recently said this song was about keeping the relationship safe.
“My relationship for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumours, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it, and so this song is sort of about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.”
