Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” Achieves Record-Breaking Global Debut
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NEW YORK, October 13, 2025 (ENTERTAINMENT INTERVIEWS) — Recording artist Taylor Swift has achieved the biggest first week in music history with her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, which earned more than 4 million U.S. and 5.5 million global album-equivalent units. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking Swift’s 15th chart-topping album.
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The release also generated over 1.5 billion global streams, securing the largest debut of 2025 across all major streaming platforms. Swift now holds the record for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist and extends her streak of 11 consecutive studio albums debuting at No. 1, beginning with Fearless in 2008.
“I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week. I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energy into it. Since then I’ve tried to meet and thank as many people as I could who have given me the chance to chase this insane dream. Here we are all these years later and a hundred times that many people showed up for me this week. I have 4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was. Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in The Life of a Showgirl. I’ll cherish this feeling forever,” said Swift.
The Life of a Showgirl achieved the largest vinyl sales week ever recorded by Nielsen, surpassing 1 million units, and set new global streaming records on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. On Spotify, the album became the largest standard edition debut in the platform’s history, amassing 250 million first-day streams, while its lead single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” became the fastest song to surpass 100 million streams.
Globally, the album debuted at No. 1 in more than 15 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy, achieving the biggest opening week for an international artist in several of those markets.
Critical reception has been widely favorable, with Rolling Stone awarding the album five stars, calling it “a fresh echelon of superstardom,” while Billboard described it as “one of the most grounded, well-rounded projects of Swift’s career.”
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Source: Republic Records
