The 10-time Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift released her first single “ME!” featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco of the upcoming album after almost 17 months this Friday.
According to YouTube, Taylor Swift’s new Music Video got 65.2 million views in first 24 hours since its debut on YouTube which broke the record set by Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next.” which collected 55.4 million views when it released last year.
With 65.2 million views, congratulations @taylorswift13 + @taylornation13 on breaking the record for highest female and solo 24-hour debut for any music video on @YouTube 🎉 https://t.co/yY6GkcuILa pic.twitter.com/wlKZ4zyHOk
— YouTube Music (@youtubemusic) April 28, 2019
This record took Swift to the top as a solo artist male or female on YouTube to get the most views from debut to 24 hours, but her record is far from the KPop Boy Band BTS and Halsey featuring the song “Boy with Luv” which was watched 74.6 million times in its first day released earlier this month.
Incredibly Swift amped up her previous most-watched Music Video “Look What You Made Me Do.” which was watched 43.2 million times in 2017 by a big margin as the new Music Video collected 22 million more views.
The new single was released on all platforms worldwide at the same time but the other record breaks haven’t been revealed yet.
