Taylor Swift Sells 2.7 Million Copies of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ on First Day of Release in U.S.

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl medium is disconnected to a sparkling commencement successful the United States. On its archetypal time of release, Oct. 3, the acceptable sold 2.7 cardinal copies successful accepted medium income (physical and integer purchases) crossed each versions of the album, according to archetypal reports to information tracking steadfast Luminate. That marks Swift’s biggest week ever, and the second-largest income week for immoderate medium successful the modern epoch — since Luminate began electronically tracking information successful 1991. The lone larger income week successful that span of clip was registered by the opening framework of Adele’s 25, which sold 3.378 cardinal copies successful its archetypal week successful 2015.

Showgirl besides stuns with a caller modern-era grounds (1991-present) for the astir copies of a vinyl medium sold successful a azygous week, having already sold 1.2 million copies connected wax. That breaks the single-week record, acceptable by Swift successful 2024, erstwhile her past album, The Tortured Poets Department, sold 859,000 copies connected vinyl successful its archetypal week.

Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay information powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers successful this communicative are for the U.S. only.

Further news of first-week gathering income and streaming enactment for the album, arsenic provided by Luminate, volition beryllium reported successful the coming days.

The Life of a Showgirl was announced connected Aug. 12, and Swift’s authoritative webstore began taking preorders for the medium soon after. The acceptable was issued arsenic a wide disposable streaming variation and successful 3 wide disposable versions to acquisition crossed each participating retailers (a modular CD, vinyl and integer download album). There is simply a plethora of further variants of the medium to purchase, with much details connected the assorted versions aboriginal successful this story.

The income of The Life of a Showgirl volition summation successful the coming days, with the existent tracking week ending connected Thursday, Oct. 9. The album’s last first-week income fig is expected to beryllium announced connected Sunday, Oct. 12, on with its assumed ample debut connected the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums illustration (dated Oct. 18). If The Life of a Showgirl debuts atop the Billboard 200, it volition people Swift’s 15th No. 1 album, lifting her past Drake and JAY-Z for the astir No. 1 albums among soloists, and becoming the sole enactment with the second-most No. 1s ever. She is presently tied with Drake and JAY-Z with 14 No. 1s each, and lone The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, person more, dating to erstwhile the illustration began publishing connected a regular, play ground successful 1956.

All 14 of Swift’s full-length workplace albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her 2nd album) done 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department person debuted astatine No. 1.

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. For each illustration news, travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. 

Sales Story: The 2.7 million-sales fig registered for Showgirl is inclusive of some over-the-counter and download purchases of the medium made connected Oct. 3, successful summation to what is assumed to beryllium a ample fig of pre-orders of the carnal medium done Internet retailers (such arsenic Swift’s webstore, Amazon, Target, etc.) shipped to customers for accomplishment connected merchandise day, arsenic good arsenic pre-orders of the integer download medium that were redeemed connected merchandise time (via the iTunes Store and different akin sellers).

After 1 time connected sale, The Life of a Showgirl is the top-selling medium of 2025 successful the U.S., surpassing the 520,000 sold of The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, done the week ending Sept. 25.

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