Swift’s latest album is the first ever to debut with over 4M first week sales.
Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl has broken an array of Billboard records as it sailed its way straight to the No.1 spot. The chart company confirmed on Monday that Swift’s 15th album debuted with 4.002 million equivalent album units (including pure album sales and streams), the highest number ever in the modern era.
Per Billboard, The Life of a Showgirl earned 3,479,500 pure album sales with 1.3 million of those being vinyl copies of the album.
Swift overtakes Adele, whose 2015 25 previously held the first-week sales record with 3.482 million units. The Life Of A Showgirl is the first album in history to earn over 4 million units in a single week in the US.
“I have 4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in The Life of a Showgirl. I’ll cherish this feeling forever.”
With The Life Of A Showgirl, Swift becomes the first solo artist in history to score 15 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. She now has second-most No. 1 albums since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a weekly basis in 1956 with only The Beatles (19 No.1s) ahead of her.
Naturally, the huge success of the album was also felt on the singles chart. “The Fate of Ophelia” debuted at No.1 on the Hot 100. In fact, the top 12 songs on the Hot 100 this week are occupied by songs from The Life of a Showgirl. Swift previously filled the top 10 with Midnights in 2022 and The Tortured Poets Department in 2024. No other artist in history has done it once.
Earlier on Monday Swift and Disney+ announced Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era, a six-part docuseries charting her epic world tour that wrapped production in 2024. The streamer will also air concert film The Eras Tour | The Final Show alongside the documentary in December.