<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
     xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
     xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
     xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
     xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
     xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">
    <channel>
        <title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift album ‘Folklore’ breaks Spotify, Apple Music streaming records]]></title>
        <atom:link href="https://usagag.com/2020/07/27/taylor-swift-album-folklore-breaks-spotify-apple-music-streaming-records/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
        <link>https://usagag.com/2020/07/27/taylor-swift-album-folklore-breaks-spotify-apple-music-streaming-records/</link>
        <lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:37:50 +0000</lastBuildDate>
        <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
        <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
        <generator>https://usagag.com</generator>
        <media:content url="/uploads/2020/07/taylor-swift-album-folklore-breaks-spotify-apple-music-streaming-records.jpg" medium="image">
            <media:title type="html">Taylor Swift album ‘Folklore’ breaks Spotify, Apple Music streaming records</media:title>
        </media:content>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taylor Swift&#8217;s latest album <strong>&#8220;Folklore&#8221;</strong> is breaking the Internet.</p><p><span >Since dropping last Thursday at midnight, &#8220;Folklore&#8221; was </span><span >streamed 80.6 million times on Spotify, breaking </span>the Swedish company&#8217;s record for first-day album streams by a female artist, it said. &#8220;Folklore&#8221; is also the most-streamed pop album on Apple Music in 24 hours with 35.5 million streams, Apple said.</p><p>The &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; pop star&#8217;s eighth studio album logged over 1.3 million copies sold globally in under 24 hours, Republic Records said.</p><p>The album, which <strong>was written in quarantine,</strong> includes personal stories, as well as stories written from the perspective of others, Swift said, adding that she let her imagination &#8220;run wild&#8221; on &#8220;Folklore.&#8221;</p><p>The ten-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter teased the release of <strong>her surprise album</strong>, &#8220;Folklore&#8221; on social media last Thursday before releasing it hours later. It includes a music video for the track &#8220;Cardigan,&#8221; along with a collaboration with indie folk band Bon Iver on a song called &#8220;exile.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It started with imagery. Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity,&#8221; Swift explained on Twitter last week. &#8220;Stars drawn around scars. A cardigan that still bears the scent of loss twenty years later. Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down. The tree swing in the woods of my childhood.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[USAGAG]]></dc:creator>
            </channel>
</rss><!--Time: 0.067862033843994-->