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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.
NEW NEWS!!!!!
Congrats to @tkelce and @taylorswift13 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/4gisWbNxFe
— New Heights (@newheightshow) August 26, 2025
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.