The album has sold over four million US and 5.5 million global equivalent units
Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, earns the biggest first week in music history with over four million U.S. and 5.5 million global album-equivalent units. Upon release, the album shattered countless records and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking another historic milestone in Swift’s career. Dominating across all platforms, The Life of a Showgirl amassed more than 1.5 billion global streams, securing the largest debut of 2025.
“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,” Swift says. “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 four million thank yous I want to send to the fans, and four 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.”
Including four “Taylor’s Version” re-recordings, Showgirl marks Swift’s 15th No. 1 album, breaking the record for the most No. 1 albums in the 21st century. It sets the record for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist, extending her record as the female artist with the most No. 1 albums in Billboard 200 history. Showgirl continues her streak of 11 consecutive studio albums debuting at No. 1, beginning with Fearless in 2008.
With this release, Swift reaches her 87th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her records for the most weeks at No. 1 in the 21st century, the most weeks at No. 1 by a solo artist in history, and the most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist in history.
“The Fate of Ophelia” marks Swift’s 13th No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, tying her for the fourth most No. 1s in chart history, the third most for a female artist, tying second for second most No. 1 hits in the 21st century, and tying as the only soloist to have 13 No. 1 singles and 13 No. 1 albums. The album is the firstin history with all its songs appearing uninterrupted from No. 1 through No. 12, joining her Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department as the only albums in history to produce No. 1 through No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Life of a Showgirl earned the largest vinyl sales week in Nielsen history, surpassing one million units sold, the first album to achieve this milestone.
The project broke multiple streaming records, with “The Fate of Ophelia” setting the record for the most daily and weekly streams of any song in Spotify history. The album achieved the largest standard edition debut in Spotify history with 250 million streams. Swift now holds the top 19 biggest song debuts and the top four biggest album debuts in Spotify history. “The Fate of Ophelia” also became the fastest song to surpass 100 million streams. Swift is now the only artist to simultaneously hold the platform’s top single-day and weekly records across song, album, and artist categories. Swift now holds the top three fastest albums to one billion on Spotify.
The Life of a Showgirl posted the largest iTunes and Apple Music debuts of 2025. “The Fate of Ophelia” posted the largest Apple Music debut of 2025.
In December, Swift will release a new docuseries and final concert performance from the Eras Tour. The End of an Era, a groundbreaking six-part documentary that captures the emotional, logistical, and creative culmination of her decade-spanning career as a global touring artist, leading up to her final, historic concert performance in Vancouver in December 2024. The first two documentary episodes will drop on Friday, December 12th, on Disney+, with two episodes airing for the next two weeks.
Disney+ will also premiere Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show on December 12th, capturing the final concert stop from Vancouver’s BC Place on December 8, 2024. The concert will feature 45 songs, including The Tortured Poets Department set.
