According to a press release from Republic Records, Taylor Swift’s Lover has surpassed over 2 million global consumption in the first day and generated the year’s “biggest first-week US sales in just 24 hours.” The full press release can be found below.
Lover is the ten-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, record-breaking superstar’s seventh album. Taylor Swift’s juggernaut arrives as a fan favorite and currently ranks as Taylor’s highest rated critically acclaimed album on Metacritic.
Here is what the critics are saying about Lover:
“Lover is a career-topping masterpiece” – Rolling Stone
“The superstar’s writing is better than it’s ever been on her latest album” – Rolling Stone
“The old Taylor is back on Lover and the best she’s been in years” – Vulture
“Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Is A Masterful, Heartfelt Pop Spectacle” – Forbes
“Critics are falling in love with Taylor Swift’s latest album Lover” – USA Today
“Lover offers plenty of evidence that Swift is just a better songwriter than any of her competitors in the upper echelons of pop” – Guardian
“Lover is an album of revelation through pain that sees Swift pushing herself in surprising ways…some of the most intriguing lyrics of her career” – The Atlantic
“It is a towering work that’s worth both close analysis on headphones and scream-alongs on stadium speakers.” – Billboard
“Taylor Swift’s Lover Could Hold the Key to Pop Music’s Survival” – Vanity Fair
“Taylor Swift’s triumphant new album Lover” – The Sun
“Lover is a return to vulnerability and romance” – Pitchfork
“Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ is grown-up, complex pop” – LA Times
“Swift’s vocals are also in peak form throughout, with varied timbres and layers of harmony and spontaneous sounding interjections that constantly catch me by surprise” – Slate
“Taylor Swift Emerges From the Darkness Unbroken on ‘Lover’” – The New York Times