It’s about time! On Sunday (April 28) Charlie Puth lastly appeared to answer the sudden shout-out he obtained on Taylor Swift‘s Billboard 200 No. 1 album The Tortured Poets Division. And whereas his nod to the lyrical reference on the album’s title observe was low-key, the “Mild Swap” singer’s Instagram Story publish stated all of it with one easy picture.
After Swift posted a picture of the herself within the studio with TTPD scrawled in sharpie throughout the CD model of the sprawling assortment, Puth put his personal spin on it by grabbing one of many different studio photographs of a smiling Swift at work with the album’s title scrawled in black marker throughout the entrance. The Story didn’t have any sound or message from Puth, 32, but it surely was seemed to be Puth’s means of subtly thanking Swift for the sort phrases.
On the track Swift sings, “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate/ We declared Charlie Puth needs to be a much bigger artist,” she sings on the title observe that many followers have speculated options veiled references to Taylor’s reported temporary 2023 fling with The 1975’s Matty Healy.
Puth’s picture got here from Swift’s celebration of TTPD‘s record-setting run after Taylor discovered that the album marked her 14th debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, tying her with Jay-Z for essentially the most No. 1s amongst solo artists within the nearly-70-year historical past of the chart; solely the Beatles, with 19, have extra No. 1s.
The Tortured Poets Division earned 2.61 million equal album models within the U.S. for the week week ending April 25, with conventional album gross sales (purchases of digital obtain albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) making up 1.914 million of that sum. Vinyl comprised an astonishing 859,000 of the whole, with the deluxe, 31-track deluxe model producing 891.34 million on-demand official streams.