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It’s a good week to be a Swiftie.Pop superstar Taylor Swift has toppled multiple sales and streaming records with the Oct. 21 release of her 10th studio album, “Midnights.” In just the first three days of its release, “Midnights” has already become the top-selling album of 2022. On Spotify, “Midnights” tallied 88 million streams in the U.S. and 185 million worldwide in one day, besting Bad Bunny’s record of 183 million global streams for his album “Un Verano Sin Ti.” Swift also broke first-day records at Apple Music and…

Taylor Swift will reclaim the top spot on the Billboard 200. According to first-week sales projections shared by Hits Daily Double, the Grammy winner’s Midnights album is headed toward a massive debut. The project is expected to move between 1 million to 1.2 million units in its first week, which would make it the first record to “debut at or past the million mark in the post-bundling era.” If the projections are correct, Midnights will become the fifth Swift album to enter the Billboard 200 with more than 1 million…

Taylor Swift’s latest album “Midnights” has dropped, and it might be setting a new standard for China’s digital music industry. Within a day of its release, the 13-track album, priced at 35 yuan, or $4.83, has racked up nearly 200,000 copies on Tencent’s QQ Music, one of the largest music streaming platforms in China. While $4.83 doesn’t seem like much — the album starts at $11.99 on the artist’s own online store — it’s the highest price ever set for digital albums in the market, which could…

If Taylor Swift puts out a new album and fans don’t have a slew of highly complex and potentially accurate theories, did it even really exist?After “Midnights” was released late Thursday night on the West Coast, Swifties went right to work dissecting lyrics from the pop musician’s 10th studio album.The latest objects of their speculation? You already know their names and their complicated histories with Swift: John Mayer, Scooter Braun and Kanye West. Here’s a rundown of how fans are reading between the lines.Swift…

There is an unlikely art house inspiration behind the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on her acclaimed new album, “Midnights”: French filmmaker Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon.”In one of her multiple Instagram posts around the album’s release, Swift noted that while she and producer-musician Antonoff have worked together for nearly a decade, “Midnights” is the first to feature the two of them as “main collaborators.”“Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both…

Taylor Swift launched a midnight buffet of spoils early Friday following the release of her latest album, “Midnights.” Among the goodies? Seven bonus tracks and a music video for the song “Anti-Hero.”Announcing the project in August and teasing it for weeks with playful gimmicks on TikTok, Swift delivered her 10th full-length studio album at the stroke of midnight (Eastern time) — and caused Spotify to crash briefly.Then, three hours after the release, the global superstar dropped an additional seven tracks, granting…

| If you were like us and stayed up until midnight to listen to Taylor Swift's new album Midnights, then you know what it means to be a Swiftbrony — one of the hardcore fans of Taylor Swift. But you aren't alone. Did you know that many of your favorite comic book superheroes from Marvel and DC are also huge Swiftbronies? In fact, many superheroes also stayed up waiting for the release of Midnights. Each superhero has their own reason for loving Taylor Swift, and they each did something special while waiting for the…

Anticipation is building as global pop sensation Taylor Swift is about to drop her tenth album, Midnights.Swift’s first album of new songs in almost two years, scheduled for release at midnight Friday morning in the eastern US, is expected to mark the singer’s official return to pop after 2020’s more alternative and introspective Folklore and Evermore.Multiple clips purporting to be from the album have already surfaced online.The leaks first appeared on social media platforms Twitter and TikTok before they were taken…

The writing credits have been released for Taylor Swift‘s upcoming album, “Midnights,” and they include actor Zoë Kravitz and Swift’s longtime boyfriend, actor Joe Alwyn. The credits, as seen on the iTunes desktop app, show that Kravitz, with five other writers including Swift and her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, helped create the track “Lavender Haze.” Kravitz also assisted on the album’s 11th song, “Karma.” Whether Kravitz, who is the singer for the electropop duo Lolawolf, will also be providing vocals for the…

Taylor Swift is on a tear.On Friday, the pop superstar is set to release her new album, “Midnights,” which she’s described as “a journey through terrors and sweet dreams” that features 13 tracks including a duet with Lana Del Rey. The LP will be the fourth set of new songs she’s dropped since 2019, when “Lover” came out and was quickly followed by a pair of 2020 albums, “Folklore” and “Evermore,” that the singer recorded during the COVID pandemic; last year she added to the pile with the first two installments, “Fearless…