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NEW YORK – That’s show business for you! Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl”, has officially sold 4.002 million equivalent album units in its first week in the US – including album sales and streaming activity – making it the biggest debut week in modern music history; At least, according to Luminate, the industry data and analytics company that started tracking sales in 1991.
Swift broke the record of Adele’s “25”, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in the US in 2015.
“The Life of a Showgirl” was released on 3 October. In its first week, Pure album sales totaled 3,479,500 copies.
She also became the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with 15 albums. She was previously tied with Drake and Jay-Z, who each have 14 albums.
Swift is now behind The Beatles, who claim 19 No. 1 albums.
Breaking records is nothing new to them, and when it comes to “The Life of a Showgirl,” history starts to be made immediately. In its first day of release, the album sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales, breaking the record for highest first week sales in a single day.
Their last album, 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department”, collected 2.61 million equivalent album units in the US in its first week.
Additionally, according to Luminate, “The Life of a Showgirl” broke the record for most copies of a vinyl album sold in a week in the US, with 1.2 million copies in the first day.
The previous record holder was “The Tortured Poets Department”, which sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.
One reason Swift has had so much success is that she released her records in many different formats. These include several editions exclusive to Target – three CDs titled “It’s Frightening,” “It’s Rapturous” and “It’s Beautiful”, as well as a special vinyl release, “The Crowd Is Your King.”
There are also several other vinyl variants: “The Tiny Bubble in Champagne Collection,” “The Baby That Show Business Collection,” “The Shiny Bug Collection,” and the standard LP and cassette, “Sweat & Vanilla Perfume Portofino Orange Vinyl.”
News of Swift’s record-breaking sales comes on the heels of “Good Morning America” revealing Monday that she has two new projects at Disney. It is a six-episode behind-the-scenes documentary about her historic “Eras Tour”, titled “Taylor Swift ‘The Eras Tour’ The End of an Era”.
The first two episodes of his documentary series will premiere on December 12.
And it is not to be confused with another, titled “Taylor Swift ‘The Eras Tour’ The Final Show,” a concert film that now includes “The Tortured Poets Department” section. 2024 included a three and a half hour performance of theirs following the release of the album. It was filmed in Vancouver.
It is separate from the 2023 “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film, which was compiled from several Swift shows at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood and preceded “The Tortured Poets Department.”
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