Dean deserved better.

After its first five days on sale, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has sold 1.8 million copies in the U.S., according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate (reflecting April 19-23 activity). With two days left in the tracking week (ending April 25), the album already has the fourth-largest sales week in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991) and is nearing lofty milestones set by *NSYNC over 20 years ago.

The top four biggest sales weeks in the modern era for albums are (all in debut weeks): Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC’s Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001) and The Tortured Poets Department (1.8 million, 2024).

The new album’s 1.8 million sales total is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of The Tortured Poets Department made April 19-23, in addition to a likely large number of pre-orders of the album through Internet retailers that were shipped to customers for arrival on release day. Sales reflect more than 20 different editions of the album available among physical and digital configurations (see story, April 20, below).

The sales activity of The Tortured Poets Department will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, April 25. The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales and streaming figures) are expected to be announced by Billboard on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4).

The Tortured Poets Department earned 2.4 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first five days (inclusive of the 1.8 million in traditional album sales), while its collected 31 songs (on its deluxe edition) generated 706 million on-demand official streams.

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

babysitting a kid right now, and hes pretend napping and ive got lullaby music on and everything (this is something he likes to do.) and hes pretending to sleep talk. This is all normal enough except the only words hes choosing to say are *snoooooorrre*…… cinnamon challenge…. my god………..Cinnamon challeng………..

Same kid just passed me a note reading “I Ned Car”

I was like why do you need a car? And he just sighed and kicked the floor and said “Needa get outta here man.”.

even when you wanna die!

you bottle Miette??

You crush Miette like the grape?

brick up mother in basement for ONE THOUSAND YEARS

The Cask of Miettellado

Taylor writing an entire song about how she was sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night but then found daylight, and nearly naming the whole lover album daylight because of how real love to her shined golden like daylight -> so long london's "a moment of warm sun but I'm not the one"

That’s a pretty cool political opinion you got there dude. Did your web of online friends and mutuals who all subconsciously monitor each other and self-correct in a panopticon-esque fashion to ensure that your views all stay in line with each other’s at all times pick it for you?

“I’m safe from having my political views dictated by others because I’m catholic” is probably the funniest thing you could add to this

70’s ad for Asbestos

I love dinosaurs as much as robots. It is very funny to me when ppl freak out about their childhood icons having feathers maybe.

But it is actually more boring if they are all just like Hollywood imagined.

the peaked at high school girls who have cosplayed being a swiftie for a year are having a hard time comprehending ttpd lyrics and it's sending me. taylor swift is for the nerds, artists and daydreamers you bullied in school. you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum they raised me, the world is healing

occasional posts from users

reblog if you make occasional posts

Sometimes I still hear my voice

Keep telling everyone I'm dead

started with a kiss oh we must stop meeting like this but it always ends up with a town car speeding out the drive one evening ended with the slam of a door then he’ll call her a whore wish he wouldn’t be sore BUT AS SHE WAS LEAVING IT FELT LIKE BREATHING

you look like 🤍

If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.

Anyway, here's a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don't be shamed into not asking questions, and it's alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don't let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.

yeah okay ill reblog that :]

Listen. I’m a little disappointed in the kids who can’t read a clock, but it’s not their fault if no-one taught them. But I’m *appalled* at the *schools* whose solution to this problem was to *remove the clocks*.

this moralizing analog clocks is ridiculous. the article this headline is from does not say they are removing clocks entirely, they're replacing them with digital so students are more comfortable during their exams. you don't gotta be an old grumpy asshole to kids for the sake of it

I don't teach elementary school (I teach high school English), so my knowledge there is limited, but from what I understand from my colleagues who DO work in elementary (in the USA at least) is that they are not given time to teach students to mastery. States and districts are prioritizing pacing guides that determine how quickly teachers have to move through material and if they don't get through it all? The school/teacher is punished financially (school through decreased funding, teacher through being non-renewed aka fired).

So say they get a couple weeks to teach second graders how to read an analog clock (and they only get 30-45 minutes a day for this, if that). If only five out of 30+ kids actually understand the material, too bad. You can't reteach the other kids because you have to stick to the pacing guide and get through the ridiculous amount of material, a good portion of which is above students' development level.

Plus kids are missing school in droves - chronic absenteeism is one of the biggest student issues in the American education system today. So if a kid was only there for half the unit, they're out of luck because the teacher doesn't have the time or resources to catch them up individually.

And then there's the huge mess of Covid that has set back millions of students across the board. I have students, in high school, who can't tell me what the main idea of a paragraph is, who don't know how to use adverbs correctly (and by "correctly" I mean in a way that makes sense), and are so far behind in comprehension skills that I worry for their futures.

These kids are NOT stupid, they've been failed by a (American) society that does not value education (just look at how much teachers are paid) and are never given the opportunity to actually go back and master concepts that they missed or couldn't understand when they were initially taught. I work with them in every way possible while still adhering to state standards and requirements myself, but I don't have the training to catch students up on years of missed schooling.

Rant over, but this issue with the analog clocks is just one symptom of the USA's collapsing education system.

Just a note, this headline is about the UK. I think that analog clocks are not indicative of gaps in our education system any more than manual transmissions are indicative of a gap in driver's ed.

If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.

Anyway, here's a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don't be shamed into not asking questions, and it's alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don't let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.

yeah okay ill reblog that :]

Listen. I’m a little disappointed in the kids who can’t read a clock, but it’s not their fault if no-one taught them. But I’m *appalled* at the *schools* whose solution to this problem was to *remove the clocks*.

this moralizing analog clocks is ridiculous. the article this headline is from does not say they are removing clocks entirely, they're replacing them with digital so students are more comfortable during their exams. you don't gotta be an old grumpy asshole to kids for the sake of it