Taylor Swift's latest album, 'The Tortured Poets Department', has achieved record-breaking success in its debut week. The album garnered the equivalent of 2.6 million sales in the U.S., marking the biggest overall first-week take for any album since Adele's '25' in 2015. Additionally, it broke the global streaming record for its first week and topped the United World Chart with 3.353 million equivalent sales excluding China, making it the biggest debut of the decade. Swift also surpassed The Weeknd as the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, reaching over 111.6 million and becoming the first female artist to achieve this milestone.