Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department leaks online – report

Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department leaks online – report

Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album – The Tourtured Poets Department – appears to have leaked online, a day before its release. 

People have been sharing the tracks on social media, with some saying it came from a Google Drive link containing the whole 17-song list. 

The singer announced her 11th studio album at the Grammy Awards in February. It is her first collection of entirely new material since October 2022’s Midnights.

On X, formerly Twitter, some fans were quick to say they wouldn’t be indulging in the music ahead of schedule; while others flooded the site with false links to “bury” the leak and stop people finding it.

Other fans speculated that the tracks could be fakes generated by artificial intelligence, although some “AI” tracks that were shared online turned out to be older, less well-known Swift songs.

Swift’s European tour kicks off this summer, and the new songs will likely make an appearance at her shows. 

Midnights, which featured the singles Anti-Hero, Bejeweled and Karma, also leaked online ahead of its drop date. But the leak didn’t hurt Swift’s commercial prospects, and the album sold 1.6 million copies in its first week in the US.

Earlier this month, Swift joined Elon Musk as ranking among the world’s wealthiest people, according to a new rich list.

The pop star entered the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for the first time with $1.1bn (£877m), along with Sam Altman, creator of the AI chatbot ChatGPT on $1bn (£800m).