Here Are All the Billboard Chart Records Taylor Swift Breaks (or Extends) With ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

The first-week numbers for Taylor Swift’s caller album, The Life of a Showgirl, are, expectedly, massive. But adjacent for an creator who has spent astir 2 decades breaking her ain records, these numbers are connected different level entirely.

The Life of a Showgirl posts the biggest debut of the modern epoch (1991–present), shattering records for some single-week income and equivalent medium units (on the latest charts dated Oct. 18). Every azygous 1 of its 12 songs lands successful the apical 12 of the Billboard Hot 100 — a feat nary creator has ever achieved before. And with this latest sweep, Swift has present occupied the full apical 10 of the Hot 100 3 abstracted times. No different creator successful past has done it adjacent once.

Those accomplishments unsocial would beryllium capable to specify astir careers, but for Swift, they’re conscionable the opening of different historical week. Across Billboard’s album, opus and genre charts, The Life of a Showgirl resets the grounds books — from streaming milestones to vinyl income to illustration longevity benchmarks.

With the charts officially locked in, it’s worthy looking person astatine conscionable however galore records this medium breaks. She besides makes historical starts astatine vigor and sets a caller people for the astir streamed opus successful a azygous week successful the post-UGC epoch (2020-present).

Below, we’ve rounded up each large Billboard illustration grounds Swift breaks this week — and a fewer she extends adjacent further — acknowledgment to The Life of a Showgirl. Let’s dive in.

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