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\n\tLike many era-defining pop stars, Taylor Swift<\/a> makes history everywhere she goes and with just about everything she does. Take, for example, her first visit<\/a> to boyfriend Travis Kelce<\/a>\u2018s New Heights<\/em> podcast on Wednesday night (Aug. 13). While the weekly show the Kansas City tight end cohosts with his retired NFL sibling Jason Kelce regularly gets anywhere from 12,000 to nearly 300,000 views on YouTube for their genial sports talk, the figures for Swift\u2019s pop-in are already, predictably, off the charts.<\/p>\n \n\tAs of 1:45 p.m. ET on Thursday (Aug. 14) \u2014\u00a0just 17 hours after its debut \u2014\u00a0the two-hour Swift episode had more than 10.8 million views, easily besting the second-most popular episode of the show to date, an 8 million view 2024 chat with Jason\u2019s wife, Kylie Kelce, as well as nearly doubling the views for a 2023 chat with Travis\u2019 Super Bowl-winning teammate, quarterback Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n \n\tThe figures on Spotify are equally gaudy, with the streamer reporting on Thursday that Swift\u2019s New Heights<\/em> appearance has already become one of the top-performing podcast episodes of the past 12 months. According to Spotify, based on an average of the previous five episodes, the Swift chat brought a 3,000% increase in new listeners to the show, as well as spiking an overall 2,500% increase in average streams of the episode and a 1,100% jump in tune in around 8:45 p.m. ET, which was an hour and 45 minutes into the show.<\/p>\n \n\tNot surprisingly, Swift also helped increase female listenership to New Heights<\/em>, with Spotify saying that the number of females tuning in is already tracking 618% higher than the average for the previous five shows on its first day of release. That figure becomes even wilder when you consider that female listeners already made up the majority (58%) of New Heights<\/em> listeners.<\/p>\n \n\tThe already popular podcast that has nearly three million subscribers on YouTube got a major boost when Swift visited to reveal the details<\/a> of her upcoming 12th album, which is due out on Oct. 3 and features a collab with former Eras Tour opening act Sabrina Carpenter on the title track. The LP is produced by Max Martin and Shellback, the dynamic studio duo behind some of her biggest hits from albums such as 1989<\/em> and Reputation<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tSwift, who rarely does sit-down interviews, once again proved to be the ultimate master of her album rollout narrative on New Heights<\/em>, which racked up nearly 9 million views within its first 12 hours on YouTube, with The New York Times<\/a><\/em> reporting that 1.3 million people tuned in simultaneously to a livestream of the episode before the crowd crush caused a brief technical glitch.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a comparison likely to further stoke the ire of Donald Trump \u2014 who earlier this month said he \u201cCAN\u2019T STAND<\/a>\u201d Swift after earlier saying he \u201cHATES\u201d the singer \u2014\u00a0the Times<\/em> noted that, by comparison, an October episode of the very popular Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> pod featuring then-candidate Trump hit around 11 million views in its first 12 hours on YouTube. celebrity.land<\/a> added that the 1.3 million Swift figure nearly doubled the 800,000 people who watched Trump\u2019s Rogan<\/em> appearance in the first hour of that October show.<\/p>\n \n\tEven the Kelces were not immune to the number numbness, with the show\u2019s X account shouting out the fans for helping them \u201cbreak the internet<\/a>\u201d amid the technical glitches, Travis posting a happy dance video<\/a> when it came back online and Jason adding that the 1.3 million figure is just \u201cthe epitome of numerology<\/a>\u201d given Swift\u2019s career-long obsession with the number 13.<\/p>\n \n\tAt press time, the nearly three-hour Rogan chat with Elon Musk in 2018 is among the most viewed ever on YouTube, with more than 69 million views, though celebrity.land host Kate Bouldan predicted that Swift\u2019s New Heights<\/em> episode is already on its way to becoming \u201cone of the most watched podcasts of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn case you missed out, check out the Swift episode below.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like many era-defining pop stars, Taylor Swift makes history everywhere she goes and with just about everything she does. 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