If there’s one thing Taylor Swift will do, it’s surprise her fans with something new. That was certainly the case when the superstar released not one, but two new albums, The Tortured Poets Department and her surprise companion The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. And if that wasn’t enough, we’re also getting the music video for the album’s lead single, Fortnight, featuring Post Malone, on Friday at 8 pm ET.
In total, Swifties got 31 new songs streaming last night, including the four bonus tracks that were previously exclusive to variant CD editions of the record. Swift described the album on her Instagram as a reflection of “a fleeting, fatalistic moment in time, one that was both sensational and painful in equal measure.” The album is already breaking records: It is the most streamed album in a single day for 2024, Billboard reports.
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Swift announced The Tortured Poets Department after winning her 14th Grammy Award in February. Since the album’s announcement, Swift unveiled four variants of The Tortured Poets Department during the most recent leg of The Eras Tour. Additionally, a mysterious YouTube short was posted to Taylor’s account, encouraging fans to join the “For a Fortnight Challenge.”
Here’s everything you need to know about listening to The Tortured Poets Department. We’ll continue to update this story with breaking announcements and surprises that Swift no doubt has in store. For more information, here’s how to stream The Eras Tour concert film and the best music streaming services of 2024.
How to Stream Taylor Swift’s New Album, The Tortured Poets Department
You will be able to stream The Department of Tortured Poets on the streaming service of your choice. Both Spotify and Apple Music subscribers can currently stream The Tortured Poets Department, as well as YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Tidal.
Additionally, fans can stream The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology on the streaming service of their choice. TTPD: The Anthology contains all 31 songs that Swift released early this morning. You can see all the options in the Swift binding tree here.
Clues and collaborators in The Department of Tortured Poets
The Department of Tortured Poets has 16 new songs and four variant-specific bonus tracks. Post Malone and Florence & The Machine appear on the album, and Swift teamed up with her longtime friend Jack Antonoff and her recent collaborator Aaron Dessner on her latest album.
This album has several solo writing credits for Swift. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys and Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me were written exclusively by the superstar. With the release of TTPD: The Anthology, Swift adds The Black Dog, imgonnagetyouback, Peter, and The Manuscript to her solo songwriting credits.
The album’s standard track listing is as follows:
- Fortnight (with Post Malone)
- The Department of Tortured Poets
- My child only breaks his favorite toys.
- down bad
- See you later, London
- But Daddy I love him
- Just out of jail
- Florida!!! (with Florence and the machine)
- Guilty as sin?
- Who’s afraid of little me?
- I can fix it (No, I really can)
- lol
- I can do it with a broken heart
- The smallest man who ever lived
- alchemy
- Clara Arco
- The black dog
- I’m going to get you back
- the albatross
- Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
- How do I finish?
- So high school
- I hate this place
- thanks, target
- I look in people’s windows
- The prophecy
- Cassandra
- Pedro
- The bolter
- Robin
- The manuscript
The first 16 songs were expected as part of The Tortured Poets release, but at 2 a.m. on April 19, Swift surprised fans with the release of a double album. Songs 17 through 31 make up the second half of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.
How to Find the Department of Tortured Poets on CD and Vinyl
There are four confirmed variant editions of TTPD, named after the bonus track each will include: The Bolter, The Albatross, The Black Dog, and The Manuscript. While the variants are available for sale on Swift’s website, fans can also find them at Target. These do not include the 15 additional songs included in TTPD: The Anthology.
Most variant editions are available on CD, including The Bolter, The Albatross, and The Black Dog. The fourth variant edition, named after the bonus track The Manuscript, is available on CD and vinyl in light ghost or ghost white colors only at Target. Swift also pre-ordered vinyl bundles of the other variant editions (The Bolter, The Albatross, and The Black Dog) which included a CD and a deluxe cassette, but they were only available until April 12.
In every social media post-Taylor Swift makes, she includes the same pre-order link, which includes other retailers besides her website and Target, like Barnes & Noble. At Target, you can buy each CD individually for $14, and The Manuscript vinyl is $46. There is currently no place where you can find all four bonus songs on the same CD, so completists and collectors should be prepared to spend some money.
How do I stream bonus songs and The Tortured Poets Anthology?
Good news: As part of the 2 am double album release, all four confirmed bonus tracks are included on TTPD: The Anthology. So now you don’t need to buy each of the four variant editions on CD and vinyl to listen to The Bolter, The Albatross, The Black Dog, and The Manuscript. TTPD: The Anthology is available wherever you stream music.
The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology has not yet been released physically, although a digital download is available for $15 on Swift’s website. Therefore, fans and collectors will still need to purchase the physical variants of the album if they want to listen to the four bonus tracks. We’ll update this story if Swift releases a physical version of TTPD: The Anthology. You may be able to hear clips from the album on TikTok, as Swift recently agreed to allow some of her songs back on the app.
This is not how Swift has previously handled bonus song releases. With her latest original album Midnights coming in 2022, she released songs in stages: the original album, a 3 a.m. release with seven more songs, then released random singles on CD and vinyl. There are three streaming versions of the album, but there is still no core album (streaming, CD, or vinyl) where you can hear all the songs from the Midnights era. So it’s safe to say Swift took the shortest route this time.
What to know about the alleged leak of The Department of Tortured Poets
On April 18, just one day before the album’s release, Keynote USA reported that Swift’s latest album had allegedly been leaked. The leak has not been confirmed or denied by Swift’s camp, but fans online have encouraged each other not to listen to the new album until Swift’s official release. Additionally, X (formerly Twitter) has banned searches for “Taylor Swift leak,” much like the platform did when explicit AI-generated images of Swift circulated earlier this year.
While some fans online claimed to have heard the leak, we recommend you stream the album on Spotify or Apple. It may not be safe to not click on links that advertise a leaked copy of the album. Bad actors are likely to take advantage of fans’ enthusiasm for the album, and those links could potentially be dangerous viruses or explicit content.
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