Taylor Swift shares reaction to ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ topping Apple Music’s most streamed albums

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Taylor Swift has shared her reaction to ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ achieving the most streamed album of 2024 on Apple Music.The streaming platform unveiled Apple Music Replay yesterday (December 3), allowing Apple Music users to analyse their listening habits over the past 12 months.Apple Music Replay comes ahead of the highly anticipated Spotify Wrapped 2024 – which allows music fans to look back at their favourite releases of the year, and arrives with stats, rankings and summaries about each user’s most listened-to songs, albums, podcasts, artists and genres.Apple Music has also revealed the year-end charts for 2024, which reveal the biggest songs of the year by Apple Music streams, Shazam tags, radio spins, read lyrics and more.The results reveal that the expanded edition of Swift’s eleventh studio album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ – which NME gave three stars – was the most streamed album this year on the platform.

Additionally, Swift was also awarded the most streamed artist.A post shared by Apple Music (@applemusic)In an Instagram Story shared yesterday (December 3), Swift shared her reaction to the news. “Ahhhhhh thank you for listening to my music and TTPD so much!!!!”, she wrote.“You, the fans, made The Tortured Poets Department the TOP STREAMED ALBUM of The Year on @applemusic!!!

You guys snagged me that Top Streamed Artist spot too.” The most played track on Apple Music in 2024, however, went to Kendrick Lamar‘s incindiary party anthem ‘Not Like Us’.In July, it was revealed that ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ was the biggest album of the year so far in the US, earning 4.66 million equivalent album units in the first half of this year.