Guinness Confirms: Taylor Swift Helps ‘New Heights’ Set YouTube Podcast Record.

The Guinness World Records team confirms that Wondery’s New Heights podcast has set a record. The Aug. 13 episode that featured Taylor Swift discussing her new album had the most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube ever, with a total of 1.3 million. That was despite technical glitches that took the stream down for a while. Since then, the two-hour episode has gone on to be viewed more than 21 million times on the platform. The announcement this week that Swift is engaged to New Heights co-host and NFL star Travis Kelce will undoubtedly give the episode an additional bounce of listeners and viewers.

“The woman is a record-breaking machine,” Guinness says in the announcement. It notes it is not the first record for Swift, who set the mark for most streamed album on Spotify in 24 hours with the release of her “The Tortured Poets Department” last year. It had a total of 313.7 million in a single day.

During her first-ever appearance on a podcast, built around her announcement of her forthcoming album, “The Life of a Show Girl,” Swift said that the show hosted by her fiancé, Travis Kelce, is her “favorite podcast” and she had been waiting for the invite. “This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago,” Swift told listeners.