Taylor Swift Achieves Solo Artist Record 15th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

The Life of a Showgirl sold 3,479,500 copies successful axenic medium income successful its archetypal week (purchases of integer downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassette tapes). That is the azygous largest income week for an medium since 1991, erstwhile Luminate began electronically tracking euphony sales. The medium sold 2.7 million connected its archetypal day, a fig that was apt driven by a important fig of pre-orders for the carnal medium shipped to customers for accomplishment connected merchandise day, arsenic good arsenic pre-orders of the integer download medium that were redeemed connected merchandise day.

The first-week income of The Life of a Showgirl were powered by its availability crossed 38 versions of the medium implicit its archetypal week. There were 27 carnal editions and 11 integer download editions. Of the carnal editions, determination were 16 CDs, 2 deluxe CD boxed sets containing branded covering and a CD, 8 vinyl LPs and 1 cassette.

Swift’s webstore exclusively sold 10 of the CD editions (four deluxe editions successful premium packaging containing a collectible charm and photograph cards, 4 signed editions, and 2 deluxe boxed sets containing branded covering and a CD). Most of the editions exclusive to Swift’s webstore were sold for constricted windows of clip since the preorder motorboat successful August. Target had an exclusive CD, and determination was 1 wide disposable modular CD. Plus, determination were 4 CD variants with bonus tracks that were launched during thoroughfare week and initially exclusively sold successful Swift’s webstore, but past became disposable astatine indie grounds stores.

As for the vinyl and cassette editions, Swift’s webstore exclusively sold 7 vinyl LPs and the 1 cassette. Target besides had 1 exclusive vinyl LP.

Finally, connected the integer download side, determination were 11 versions to purchase. There were cleanable and explicit versions each of the wide disposable modular album, the iTunes-exclusive variation with a bonus video, and the track-by-track commentary edition. There were besides 4 iTunes-exclusive versions with bonus tracks, and a mentation with bonus tracks exclusively sold via Swift’s webstore. Most of the download versions launched aft the album’s merchandise day; lone the wide disposable modular medium and the iTunes-exclusive mentation with a bonus video were disposable connected thoroughfare date.

The Life of a Showgirl is the eighth Swift medium to person sold astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a azygous week, pursuing the debuts of The Tortured Poets Department, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the archetypal 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the lone enactment with 8 antithetic albums to each merchantability astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a azygous week successful the modern era. In total, determination person been 27 instances – by 25 antithetic albums — successful which an medium sold astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a week successful the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold much than 1 cardinal successful 3 abstracted weeks.

Five of the apical 10 million-selling weeks occurred successful the aboriginal 2000s, successful the pre-digital and pre-streaming heyday of the CD, erstwhile fundamentally the lone mode to perceive to an medium on-demand was by purchasing an album. The twelvemonth 2000 was the highwater people successful the modern epoch for medium sales, erstwhile 785 cardinal albums were sold successful the U.S. Comparably, successful 2025 year-to-date done Oct. 2, medium income stood astatine 62.43 million, with astir fractional of that fig (30 million) driven by purchases of vinyl LPs.

Here’s a recap of the apical 10 biggest-selling weeks by albums successful the modern epoch (1991-present), ranked successful bid by income volume.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Taylor Swift, The Life of a Showgirl, 3,479,500, Oct. 18, 2025
2, Adele, 25, 3.378 million, Dec. 12, 2015
3, *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2.416 million, April 8, 2000
4, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 1.914 million, May 4, 2024
5, *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1.880 million, Aug. 11, 2001
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