Taylor Swift has damaged one other report as her look on the New Heights podcast has not solely change into the present’s highest-viewed episode ever, nevertheless it additionally gained a better dwell viewership than President Donald Trump‘s 2024 Joe Rogan interview.
The pop celebrity appeared on Wednesday’s (August 13) version of New Heights, the podcast hosted by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce. Throughout the interview, she confirmed her new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which might be launched on October 3.
In response to The Every day Beast, 1.3 million have been watching dwell on YouTube throughout the first hour of Wednesday’s present. That’s almost double the variety of individuals watching Trump’s look on The Joe Rogan Expertise final October. Per CNN, Trump’s first hour with Rogan was watched by 800,000 individuals.
CNN host Kate Bolduan additionally added that Swift’s New Heights episode is “already on monitor to change into one of many most-watched podcasts of all time.”
The New Heights X account celebrated the episode’s success afterwards, noting how the Swifites crashed the YouTube stream on the 1 hour, 44 minute, mark. “Shoutout all of the 92percenters and Swifties for really serving to us break the web,” the account posted. The Kelce brothers name their podcast followers the “92 percenters,” a nod to the success price of a quarterback sneak.
“1.3 million views is the epitome of numerology,” Jason added, a playful reference to Swift’s obsession with the quantity 13, which she talked about within the episode.
As of writing, Swift’s New Heights episode has had over 8.7 million views because it dropped at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday. This episode has now surpassed the earlier hottest one that includes Jason’s spouse, Kylie, which has amassed 8.6 million views on YouTube.
As compared, Rogan’s Trump episode was considered 26 million instances on YouTube in its first 24 hours. The episode is at the moment sitting at 59 million views, although the most-watched Rogan episode of all-time stays Elon Musk‘s 2018 look with 69 million views.
Trump has made no secret of his dislike of Swift, particularly since she publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president final yr. In a Reality Social publish in Could, he wrote, “Has anybody seen that, since I stated ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s not ‘HOT?’”
In an interview on Fox & Pals in September 2024, Trump stated of the “Shake It Off” singer, “She’s a really liberal particular person. She appears to at all times endorse a Democrat. And she or he’ll most likely pay a worth for it…within the market.”