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Taylor Swift started this week by taking home eight Billboard Music Awards and by being named Maxim’s Hottest Woman in the World.

And Taylor Swift is now ending the week by racking up yet another impressive accomplishment.

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The artist’s Bad Blood music video garnered 20.1 million views on VEVO in just 24 hours, setting a new record for the video-based website.

The mark was previously held by Nicki Minaj when she released her video for Anaconda video in August 2014.

“FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW. YOU BROKE THE VEVO RECORD. THANK YOU,” Swift Tweeted shortly after learning of the news.

In a batch of subsequent Twitter messages, she thanked her famous friends for appearing in the video, singling out such stars as Kendrick Lamar, Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss, Lily Aldridge, Martha Hunt and Cara Delevingne.

Other huge names to make action-packed cameos include Lena Dunham, Serayah, Jessica Alba, Gigi Hadid, Cindy Crawford, Ellen Pompeo and Ellie Goulding.

Check many of them out here:

VEVO, meanwhile, also noted in a press release that Swift’s collection of videos – which include smash  hits like “You Belong With Me,” “Shake It Off,” and “Mean” – currently stand at 5 billion total views.

Yes, 5 billion. That is not a small number.

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