Taylor Swift makes Billboard history

Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” has broken record after record… here’s a few of them.

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00:00Taylor Swift's 10th studio album has marked a historic week in the music industry.

00:04Here are some of the records Midnight's has broken since its release.

00:07Swift became the first artist in history to occupy the entire top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

00:12This was also the first time ever male artists were absent from the top 10.

00:15Only 22 albums have ever sold more than 1 million copies in one week,

00:19and Midnight's sold more than 1.2 million in its first three days.

00:22Swift sold 575,000 vinyl copies of Midnight's within its first week,

00:26which broke the previous record held by Harry's House, which sold 182,000 copies.

00:31Midnight's broke the single-day Spotify streaming record for an album, with 184.6 million streams.

00:37Swift was also the most streamed artist on Spotify in 24 hours,

00:40and became the most streamed female artist in Spotify history.

00:43On Apple Music, Midnight's broke the record for the biggest pop album of all time,

00:47based on first-day streams. With 57.5 million streams, Swift's collaboration

00:51with Lana Del Rey garnered the biggest single-week streams for an all-female

00:54collaboration in Spotify history.