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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce announce engagement

by: Alex Byington08/26/25_AlexByington
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce
Jan 26, 2025; Kansas City, MO, USA; Recording artist Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) react after the AFC Championship game against the Buffalo Bills at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images

Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce unleashed the ultimate “New News” on Tuesday when the hugely-popular couple announced their engagement in an Instagram post.

The announcement comes on the same day Guinness World Records formally acknowledged Swift’s highly-anticipated podcasting debut on the Kelce brothers’ New Heights podcast on Aug. 13 set the world record for most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube with 1.3 million viewers. Quite a day for the Kelce and Swift families.

The New Heights episode, which features one of Taylor Swift‘s most in-depth interviews and discussions ever recorded, boasted more than 380 million views on Instagram, 61.6 million views on Twitter/X, 34.5 million views on TikTok and nearly 21 million views on YouTube as of Tuesday. Since the episode aired, @newheightshow on Instagram has surpassed 3.3 million followers and the YouTube channel has gained 400k new subscribers.

Over the duration of the two-hour podcast, the trio discussed Swift’s upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl. Swift reclaimed her entire music catalog and Taylor’s first impression on both Jason and Travis.

In just the first two days, the Swift episode became the highest-viewed podcast in New Heights history. It surpassed Sept. 6, 2023’s episode, which featured Travis, Jason and Jason’s wife, Kylie Kelce. The Swift episode currently sits at 15 million views, while the Kylie episode sits at 8.6 million views.

Swift’s long-awaited appearance on New Heights marked her podcast debut as she joined her new fiance to announce her next album. The Life of a Showgirl will release Oct. 3, and Swift also unveiled the tracklist.

Taylor Swift New Heights debut suffers ‘glitch’ late in premiere, ‘breaks internet’

As Taylor Swift’s appearance with Travis and Jason Kelce started to wrap, the premiere suffered a “glitch,” according to the New Heights social media page. The feed cut out after more than an hour before it “broke the internet” as more than 1.3 million people watched live.

Swift had just unveiled her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, during the “New News” segment of the show. She was discussing the story behind it and how she wrote it during her Eras Tour last year when the stream stopped.

It turns out, the podcast wasn’t over. There was a “glitch,” and the New Heights social media team joked fans literally “broke the internet” – meaning Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark’s prediction from Wednesday afternoon came true. It’s unclear when exactly the show will post in full on YouTube with the rest of the episode, but the full podcast is available on Spotify.

— On3’s Daniel Hager and Nick Schultz contributed to this report.