Taylor Swift is celebrating her recent success on the Billboard charts . On Saturday (July 20), the 34-year-old pop superstar thanked Swifties for helping her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department , reign for 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
“I also wanted to say to everyone who’s supported The Tortured Poets Department , I am completely blown away by what you’ve done,” Swift wrote on Instagram alongside a gallery of recent Eras Tour photos. “It stayed at #1 for the first 12 weeks of its release and that’s never happened to an album of mine before, not even close!! You’re just the greatest.” Earlier in the week, Swift’s 31-track collection surpassed Whitney Houston’s 1987 album, Whitney , to become the only album by a woman to spend its first 12 weeks atop the Billboard 200.
It also marked a career-best for Swift, whose 1989 and Fearless releases spent 11 weeks each at No. 1. Only two other albums have spent at least their first 12 weeks at No.
1: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time and Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life . Swift’s celebratory social media post arrived after her trio of Eras Tour concerts at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, from July 17-19. “Those 3 Gelsenkirchen crowds were AMAZING, and so thoughtful??? There were signs and paper hearts, the ‘betty’ wave, and tons of DIY “willow” orbs made out of balloons + phone flashlights.
Thank you!!!” Swift wrote on Instagram. The “Anti-Hero�.