Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department Broke Several Streaming Records And Is Already The #1 Album Of The Year

At this point, it’s difficult to talk about Taylor Swift without coming off like a business reporter who’s breathlessly extolling some company’s perpetually skyrocketing stock price. Swift’s commercial success is so far beyond anything that her peers have managed that it doesn’t feel fair to compare anyone else to her. Case in point: Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department is five days old, and it has yet to appear on a Billboard chart. Its reception, among both fans and crit...