Taylor Swift Reacts to ‘Showgirl’ Shattering Billboard Chart Records: ‘I Have 4 Million Thank You’s’

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The popular star's caller medium present boasts the biggest opening week for immoderate LP successful the modern era.

Taylor Swift is taking a bow aft outdoing everyone — including herself — connected the Billboard charts with The Life of a Showgirl this week.

Following the quality that the popular prima had scored her 15th No. 1 medium connected the Billboard 200 — mounting a caller grounds for the astir No. 1s among soloists — Swift shared a photo of herself kissing her caller plaque displaying the feat Monday (Oct. 13). She besides wrote a connection thanking fans for helping her scope the chart’s acme erstwhile again, and for doing it successful unprecedented numbers; Showgirl moved much than 4 cardinal units successful its archetypal week, blowing past Adele’s erstwhile grounds for the biggest medium opening week ever.

“I’ll ne'er hide however excited I was successful 2006 erstwhile my archetypal medium sold 40,000 copies successful its archetypal week,” Swift wrote. “I was 16 and couldn’t adjacent fathom that that galore radical would attraction capable astir my euphony to put their clip and vigor into it. Since past I’ve tried to conscionable and convey arsenic galore radical arsenic I could who person fixed maine the accidental to pursuit this insane dream.

“Here we are each these years aboriginal and a 100 times that galore radical showed up for maine this week,” she continued. “I person 4 cardinal convey you’s I privation to nonstop to the fans, and 4 cardinal reasons to consciousness adjacent much arrogant of this medium than I already was. Thank you for going retired to observe this task successful the movie theaters, investing successful vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, speechmaking the poems I wrote wrong the packaging, and immersing yourselves successful The Life of a Showgirl.”

“I’ll cherish this feeling forever,” the 14-time Grammy victor added. “Just wow. Thank you for the beauteous bouquet.”

Tracking Swift’s ascent to Showgirl‘s occurrence is genuinely mind-boggling. Even earlier she broke Adele’s record, the Eras Tour headliner had bragging rights to the second-biggest opening week for an medium with 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department, which moved an archetypal 2.610 cardinal units and debuted atop the Billboard 200. TTPD would extremity up spending 17 weeks full astatine No. 1, which remains the third-longest enactment at the apical immoderate medium has ever clinched.

In summation to her astonishing Billboard 200 debut with Showgirl, Swift has besides monopolized each 10 spots successful the apical 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 with songs from the caller album. It marks the 3rd clip she’s done this, and she’s inactive the lone creator to person ever done it astatine all.