Taylor Swift's new song "I Knew It, I Knew You," created for the upcoming Toy Story 5, broke streaming records across Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music within its first 24 hours.
Spotify confirmed the track, released on Friday (June 5), is now the most-streamed country song in a single day by a female artist in the platform's history. Apple Music also announced that the song became both its biggest country single of 2026 and its all-time record holder for the biggest soundtrack single based on first-day plays.
Amazon Music joined in on the announcements and revealed that Swift’s new song logged the biggest 24-hour global streaming debut of any song on its platform this year. The song also reached No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart and pulled more than 300,000 YouTube views within four hours of its midnight release.
The harmonica-and-banjo-infused country track was written and produced by Swift alongside longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff.
Inspired by Jessie, the Toy Story cowgirl who appears to play a big role in Toy Story 5, the song celebrates reunion rather than loss, functioning as something of a tonal inversion of Sarah McLachlan’s mournful "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2.
In a statement through The Walt Disney Company, director Andrew Stanton praised Swift’s track.
"It's incredible just how meaningful it's been having Taylor write and perform this song,” he said. “Her connection to Jessie and the immediate way she understood what the character was going through was undeniable. The song is so deeply connected to Toy Story. So much so that on first listen, it instantly felt like it had always belonged there, like a long-lost family member. It was kismet."
Joan Cusack, who has voiced Jessie since Toy Story 2 in 1999, also weighed in.
"It's such a good song,” she told USA Today. “I love this movie so much, so I'm so glad that it resonated with her and she wanted to write a song for it, because it means so many more people come to see the movie. It's a great girl-power movie, and her song is so great. It's beautiful, and it fits perfectly.”
Swift voiced her thoughts about creating “I Knew It, I Knew You” in a caption after the track was released.
“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,” Swift wrote underneath an Instagram video of herself as a kid dressed as a cowgirl. “Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a Toy Story kid from the age of 5 til now … is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.”
