Taylor Swift Practically Doubles Trump’s Podcast Rankings

Taylor Swift appeared final evening on her boyfriend, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce’s, podcast to advertise her upcoming twelfth studio album, “The Lifetime of a Present Lady,” and lots of people tuned in.

The premiere stay stream of the two-hour New Heights podcast drew as much as 1.3 million viewers in its first hour, Variety reported. That’s practically double the 800,000 viewers who tuned in to look at Donald Trump’s look on The Joe Rogan Expertise throughout its first hour final October, in accordance with CNN.

“I owe lots to this podcast,” Swift stated throughout the episode. “This podcast received me a boyfriend.”

Views of Swift’s look are nonetheless climbing and will finally make it one of many most-watched podcasts ever. It additionally highlights a shift within the media panorama, the place celebrities—and even politicians—are skipping conventional retailers like late-night TV and turning to podcasts as a substitute. Amazon not too long ago restructured its audio business with the objective of boosting sponsorships of its creator-led exhibits, which embody New Heights.

The brand new file might additionally add gasoline to the one-sided beef President Donald Trump has in opposition to the pop star.

About 1 hour and 44 minutes in, Swift’s followers crashed YouTube’s stream of the episode.

“Shoutout all of the 92percenters and swifties for truly serving to us break the web,” the podcast’s X account posted last night.

Swift’s New Heights episode had already handed 11 million views simply 19 hours after it dropped. For context, the most-watched Joe Rogan Expertise episode ever is Elon Musk’s 2018 appearance, with 69 million views, whereas Trump’s episode from October at the moment sits at 59 million.

Nonetheless, there may be possible at the least one individual not proud of Swift’s success final evening. Trump has been a giant hater of the singer ever since she endorsed Kamala Harris for president throughout the election final 12 months.

“I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!,” he wrote on Fact Social simply days after her endorsement in September.

He took one other jab in February, referencing the Tremendous Bowl, the place Swift was reportedly booed.

“The one one which had a more durable evening than the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” he posted on Fact Social. “She received BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA may be very unforgiving!”

And simply this month, Trump introduced her up once more in a publish praising actress Sydney Sweeney.

“Or simply have a look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Tremendous Bowl and have become, NO LONGER HOT,” wrote Trump.