IN A DEPARTMENT OF HER OWN

If you’re wondering why Taylor Swift is being featured as our contents-page VIP this week, we welcome you back from your vacation under a rock. Tay’s new Republic set, THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, is roiling the marketplace, the socials and the rest of the pop-cultural landscape on its way to what multiple prognosticators say could be a 2m+ chart debut. Taylor’s visibility over the past year—on massive stages, movie screens and sports telecasts as well as all manner of charts and playlists—has never been greater. But it seems she’s just getting started.

HITS LIST: HORSEPOWER
VRRMMMM (5/20a)
HARD LAUNCH: EILISH GOES BIG AGAIN
"Lunch" and other tasty treats (5/20a)
OH, TANNENBAUM! ANOTHER GREAT CAREER HITS THE SKIDS
Another talented journalist trapped in the career cul de sac (5/20a)
NEAR TRUTHS: VARIANTS
Celebrity death match underway on album chart. (5/17a)
ON THE COVER:
HOZIER
Pour some sugar on us. (5/20a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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