Taylor Swift may have announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce , but that wasn't the only major news for the multi-award-winning singer this week. She also shattered a Guinness World Record—this time as a podcaster.
Swift appeared on New Heights , the podcast hosted by Kelce and his brother Jason, on Aug. 13, 2025.
Her two-hour sit-down peaked at 1.3 million concurrent viewers during its livestream, and has since become the most-viewed podcast video on YouTube within 24 hours, Guinness World Records confirmed.
At one stage, the surge of traffic even caused the stream to briefly crash before it was restored. Within 16 hours, the episode had already passed 10 million views; it has now topped 20 million. Guinness World Records called the feat " a landmark m