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Taylor Swift Is ‘Completely Blown Away’ That ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Has Been No. 1 for 12 Weeks
The chairwoman of the Tortured Poets Department has a message about the albums continued success.
Addressing “everyone who’s supported The Tortured Poets Department” in an instagram post on Saturday, July 20, Taylor Swift gushed, “I am completely blown away by what you’ve done — it stayed at #1 for the first 12 weeks of its release.”
never happened to an album of mine before, not even close!! You’re just the greatest,” she added to her post, which recapped highlights of her latest Eras Tour stop in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Swift, 34, dropped TTPD, a breakup album presumed to be inspired by her respective splits from Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy, in April in the middle of her Eras Tour run. When the European leg of the concerts kicked off in May, Swift added a selection of TTPD tracks to the setlist “It was fun, it was a blast. I had a blast at Tay’s show. Her new rendition of The Eras Tour, I suggest everybody go see it,” Swift’s boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, said during an episode of his “new Height Podcast”
Later that month. “It has her new Tortured Poets Department, a handful of those songs in the new show, which means there’s a new segment and new lights and new dancing, new everything to the f—king show. I suggest everybody get out there and see [her]. It is absolutely unbelievable.”