Taylor Swift has broken two Spotify records for 2026

Taylor Swift has broken two Spotify records for 2026.

The 36-year-old singer/songwriter recently released The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, featuring four new songs, Patient Zero, Cleveland!, Pink Clouding and Babylon.

Patient Zero broke the record for the most-streamed song by a female artist in a day in 2026, while Swift had the most streams out of any female artist in a day this year, according to Variety.

In a message to fans on Instagram, Taylor explained why she was releasing the Encore album, writing: “About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.”