Taylor Swift has added another milestone to her Spotify reign. Her sixth studio album, reputation, has officially surpassed 11 billion streams on the platform, becoming her fourth project to cross the threshold and pushing her into a category no other artist has reached.
With the achievement, Swift becomes the first artist in Spotify history to have four albums exceed 11 billion streams, breaking a tie with both The Weeknd and Bad Bunny. She had already held the record as the female artist with the most albums above the mark, but reputation crossing the line extends her lead even further as her catalog continues to post staggering numbers nearly nine years after the album’s release.
The streaming feat adds to an already dominant Spotify résumé. Swift remains the most-streamed artist of all time as a lead act, with more than 124 billion streams, and also holds the record for the most songs by a female artist to surpass 1 billion streams, with 28 tracks currently above the milestone.
The latest benchmark underscores the long-tail power of reputation, the album Swift released on November 10, 2017, at one of the most scrutinized moments of her career. Arriving after her public withdrawal from the spotlight in 2016, the project marked a dramatic sonic and visual reset, pairing darker electropop production with themes of media backlash, vengeance and private intimacy. Executive-produced alongside Jack Antonoff, Max Martin and Shellback, the album delivered one of Swift’s boldest reinventions, led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single “Look What You Made Me Do” and the enduring fan favorite “Delicate.”
Commercially, reputation was a juggernaut from the start. It debuted with 1.216 million first-week U.S. sales, spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200, and later powered the Reputation Stadium Tour, which became the highest-grossing North American tour in history at the time.
Among Swift’s most-streamed albums, Lover currently leads with 14.5 billion Spotify streams, followed by Midnights (12.1 billion), folklore (11.8 billion) and now reputation (11 billion). Meanwhile, 1989 sits close behind at 10.5 billion, suggesting another milestone could arrive soon.
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