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Taylor Swift and The Tortured Poets Department continue to make headlines. These are a few stories from yesterday:
Travis Kelce and Taylor enjoyed a double-date with Bradley Cooper and squad member Gigi Hadid. This week, Gigi celebrated her 29th birthday. (People) A source revealed to Deux Moi that Taylor paid for Gigi’s birthday dinner date at a swanky spot in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Taylor tipped the staff 50% on a $600 meal. She left behind on the restaurant table three, crisp $100 bills.
— deuxmoi (@deuxmoiworld) April 24, 2024
MTV scheduled this year’s Video Music Awards around both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce – in case she wants to take a date to the awards ceremony in New York City on September 10th. That date is a Tuesday when Travis won’t have an NFL game. Taylor’s taking a tour break in September before resuming mid-October in Miami. (TV Insider)
The Tortured Poets Department is the first album to surpass 1 billion streams in one-week on Spotify. They made the announcement just five-days after Taylor Swift released the 31-songs equivalent to a double-album. (Billboard)
On April 22, 2024, Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week. The album has surpassed 1 Billion streams since release.
— Spotify News (@SpotifyNews) April 24, 2024
Taylor Swift is guaranteed more than 2-million album sales this week. By Monday, Billboard will have the official numbers, which could reach 2.5 million copies of The Tortured Poets Department. When the next Billboard Hot 100 chart arrives, there’s a distinct possibility that Taylor Swift will occupy each of the top 10 positions. (Billboard)
While promoting his own music by visiting podcasts, Machine Gun Kelly was challenged to “name three mean things about Taylor Swift.” MGK balked and justified his evasion, “You have got to be out of your mind if you think I want any smoke with Swifties. Taylor is a saint and very nice to me.” (E! News)
Taylor Swift was only a teenager when she first hit it big, but she’d already been working at it for years — according to two of her elementary school teachers. According to Barbara Kolvek and Heather Brown, Tay was writing poems in her notebooks by the time she reached first grade in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Kolvek tells Philadelphia’s CBS3 that she gave Taylor her first singing solo — a song called “Fast Talk Freddie.” She adds that they kept in touch over the years. “I feel like maybe I gave her a little spark or encouragement to do what she was doing.”
A 2-year-old boy has officially become friends with Beyoncé after a viral video of him calling the singer his “friend” caught her attention. In the original viral video, Tyler adorably tells his mom, “She’s our friend. Beyoncé is my friend.” And upon seeing that, she sent the toddler a beautiful bouquet of blue and white flowers, along with a sweet message that read, “I see your halo, Tyler,” according to the boy’s mom, Bea Fabregas.
“Through the power of Queen B’s internet (millions of views and likes it’s crazy!) she saw the video and sent over some of her favorite blue flowers, a new animal best friend for Tyler and the sweetest message that our family will now always treasure,” Fabregas wrote in her Instagram caption. Fabregas continued expressing her gratitude, saying, “Thank you to everyone who shared it, commented, liked it. Tyler maybe too young to remember all this, but i’ll always remind him to dream big and shoot for the stars!! BEYONCE SENT MY BABY FLOWERS!!!!” Source: People
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