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Background
The Tortured Poets Department is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on April 19, 2024 by Republic Records, the album will consist of sixteen tracks with a bonus seventeenth track on physical releases of the album, which were released both exclusively to Swift’s official store and exclusively to Target stores. Swift Also released several digital and physical copies of the album containing live performances (digital only), acoustic versions of four songs and phone memos of songs (physical only) from both the standard and Anthology edition of the album. The Anthology edition of the album, making the album Swift’s first double album, was released two hours after the midnight release of the album and consisted of the four bonus tracks as well as eleven other tracks that were written for the album.
The album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 becoming Swift’s fourteenth number one album and spent twelve consecutive weeks at the top of the charts making Swift the first female solo act to do so.
Singles
On April 19, 2024, Swift released “Fortnight” which features Post Malone as the first single off the album. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Swift’s twelfth number one song on the chart. On July 2, 2024, “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” was released as the album second single by Universal Music exclusively in Italy to celebrate Swift’s European leg of The Eras Tour.
Track listing
The Tortured Poets Department – Standard
Track | Writers | Producers | Length |
1. “Fortnight” (feat. Post Malone) | Jack Antonoff, Post Malone, Taylor Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 3:48 |
2. “The Tortured Poets Department” | Antonoff, Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 4:53 |
3. “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” | Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 3:23 |
4. “Down Bad” | Antonoff, Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 4:21 |
5. “So Long, London” | Aaron Dessner, Swift | Swift, Dessner | 4:22 |
6. “But Daddy I Love Him” | Dessner, Swift | Swift, Dessner, Antonoff | 5:40 |
7. “Fresh Out the Slammer” | Antonoff, Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 3:30 |
8. “Florida!!!” (feat. Florence + The Machine) | Florence Welch, Swift | Swift, Antonoff | 3:35 |
9. “Guilty as Sin?” | |||
10. “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” | |||
11. “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” | |||
12. “loml” | |||
13. “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” | |||
14. “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” | |||
15. “The Alchemy” | |||
16. “Clara Bow” |
The Tortured Poets Department – “The Manuscript” Edition
17. “The Manuscript” |
The Tortured Poets Department – “The Bolter” Edition
17. “The Bolter” |
The Tortured Poets Department – “The Albatross” Edition
17. “The Albatross” |
The Tortured Poets Department – “The Black Dog” Edition
17. “The Black Dog” |
Notes
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