Taylor Swift‘s well-understandnity has elevaten since her finishorsement of VP Kamala Harris last month, contrary to Donald Trump’s foreseeion that she would “pay a price for it in the labeletplace.“
Since Swift’s Sept. 10 proclaimment that she will vote for Harris in the U.S. plivential election, the superstar has acquireed 1.85 million fagedrops on Spotify, to 122.56 million as of Oct. 3, according to data from analytics firm Chartmetric. Swift is currently second only to Indian artist Arijit Singh (123.29 million Spotify fagedrops), per Chartmetric’s tardyst data.
Some Trump helpers have pointed to another metric — Spotify monthly joiners — to finisheavor to claim that Swift has lost fan help becaemploy of her Harris finishorsement. Since Sept. 10, Swift’s monthly joiner number has deteriorated by about 3%, down 3 million to 91.4 million. (Spotify says its monthly joiner figures recontransient total joiners in the previous 28-day period, including employrs who have streamed an artist’s music from energetic and programmed sources.)
But this is misguideing: Swift’s monthly joiner totals are coming off all-time highs for the singer, follothriveg the free of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” on April 19, 2024. Swift’s monthly joiners on Spotify peaked at more than 116 million in May and that number has been trfinishing down to more “standard” levels since then.
According to the data, Swift’s current monthly joiner total remains above her prior-year mediocres going back to 2020. In includeition — despite not having freed novel music for proximately six months — Swift remains one of the most well-understandn artists on Spotify, ranking currently at No. 5 by monthly joiners (after The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga).
Meanwhile, Swift’s Instagram fagedrop count has increased by about 260,000 since her Harris finishorsement, 283.9 million currently. In includeition, the singer has acquireed about 200,000 YouTube fagedrops, to stand at 60.1 million, while her watchs on the platestablish are up 0.7% over the last 30-day period, to 372.2 million, per analytics tracking site Social Blade.
On Sept. 10, Swift proclaimd that she intfinishs to vote for VP Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. plivential follothriveg Harris’ debate thrive over Trump. Swift’s Instagram Story connected to the U.S. rulement’s Vote.gov, driving more than 400,000 visitors to the voter-inestablishation site in a 24-hour period. The follothriveg day, Trump claimed in an interwatch on “Fox & Frifinishs” that “I was not a Taylor Swift fan” and that “she’ll probably pay a price for [endorsing Harris] in the labeletplace.”
On Sept. 15, Donald Trump, without exscheduleation, posted, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” on his Truth Social social media nettoil. In her finishorsement of Harris, Swift called out Trump for previously using a phony, AI-originated image of her to originate it counterfeitly materialize as if Swift were finishorsing him.