Taylor Swift and her fiancée Travis Kelce have had an extremely busy off-season this year. It has included traveling around the the world, going to weddings, planning their own highly anticipated wedding, and now Swift has broken records with a video she just released to the internet.
Here are the details.
It appears that Toy Story fans are memorizing the sound of Taylor Swift’s new song en masse – helping her to break streaming records. Following Swift’s release of “I Knew It, I Knew You” on Friday, June 5, several streaming services reported that she had already broken some release-day records.
As reported by Apple Music, “I Knew It, I Knew You” became the streaming platform’s “biggest country single of 2026” and broke the “all-time soundtrack single record.” According to sources at PEOPLE:
Meanwhile, Spotify shared that the song is now “the most-streamed country song in a single day by a female artist in Spotify history.”
Amazon Music announced that the country song had “the biggest first 24-hour streaming debut globally for any song” in 2026.
Swift and Pixar built anticipation for “I Knew It, I Knew You” with several Easter eggs hinting at the pop star’s potential involvement with Toy Story 5.
Then, on June 1, the “Mastermind” singer confirmed the rumors, announcing that she had created a song for the film’s soundtrack.
“I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie,” Swift wrote on social media. “I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?”
In a statement, Swift thanked all those who contributed to the film and the song.
“Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film,” she said. “Thank you to the incomparable Randy Newman for the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it.”
Swift concluded, “By we, I mean myself and my pal Jack Antonoff. We wrote this with so much adoration for these characters that made us laugh and helped us learn lessons and think outside the backyard all throughout our childhoods.”
