Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl spends a 2nd week atop the Billboard 200 albums illustration (dated Oct. 25), with 338,000 equivalent medium units earned successful the United States successful the week ending Oct. 16, according to Luminate. That’s down 92% compared to the album’s modern-era-record debut with 4.002 cardinal units a week ago.

Showgirl’s 2nd week is the fifth-largest week of 2025 for immoderate album. Further, it’s the largest 2nd week for an medium since Swift’s past project, The Tortured Poets Department, earned 439,000 successful its sophomore framework (May 11, 2024, chart).

Showgirl is lone the 3rd medium to walk its archetypal 2 weeks astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 successful 2025, pursuing Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (its archetypal eight) and Playboi Carti’s MUSIC (two).

Showgirl leads a sleepy apical 10 connected the latest Billboard 200, wherever nary albums debut successful the region. Within the apical 10, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving hits a caller peak, rising 7-6 successful its 3rd week connected the chart. It’s lone the 3rd medium this twelvemonth to debut successful the apical 10 and ascent to a caller precocious aft its opening week.

The Billboard 200 illustration ranks the astir fashionable albums of the week successful the U.S. based connected multi-metric depletion arsenic measured successful equivalent medium units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise medium sales, way equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each portion equals 1 medium sale, oregon 10 idiosyncratic tracks sold from an album, oregon 3,750 ad-supported oregon 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand authoritative audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new, Oct. 25, 2025-dated illustration volition beryllium posted successful afloat on Billboard‘s website connected Oct. 20. For each illustration news, travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 338,000 equivalent medium units earned successful the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 236,000 (down 55%, equaling 307.59 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s tracks — it holds astatine No. 1 connected Top Streaming Albums for a 2nd week),...