The data doesn’t lie: Taylor Swift is the biggest pop star on the planet
The Tortured Chartmakers Department
Another day, another piece about Taylor Swift’s continued dominance: the songstress’s latest effort, The Tortured Poets Department, was released today and (surprise!) it’s a double album, meaning twice as many songs to rack up mind-boggling numbers and break streaming records all over the world.
The cold hard data doesn’t lie: Taylor Swift is the biggest popstar on the planet… and that’s before TTPD was released. We’ve plotted the 100 biggest stars on Spotify, and, while The Weeknd technically reaches a slightly broader audience — with 113m monthly listeners to Swift’s 98m — Swifties are hitting that replay button much more frequently.
The star, whose billion-dollar Eras Tour is not only the top-earning tour ever, but also the highest-grossing concert film of all time, was clocking more daily streams than any other artist earlier this week, with megahits like Blank Space, Cruel Summer, and Anti-Hero all contributing to her 75 million+ plays a day.
