Swift chats with SiriusXM Hits 1
Taylor Swift joined SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up today (Mon, Oct 6th) to discuss her recently released album The Life of a Showgirl. The global pop star spoke with SiriusXM hosts Nicole Ryan, Ryan Sampson, and Stanley T about her new album, fiancé Travis Kelce, finding love at the same time as Selena Gomez, answered a question from Ed Sheeran, and more.
Swift recorded the album in 2024 in Sweden with producers Max Martin and Shellback while she was on the European leg of The Eras Tour.
“I think it was just a different type of muscle I was exercising, you know what I mean? At that point in the tour, I was on the European leg of it, which had a lot more shows than I had done on the American leg of it. So it was like more shows, fewer days off. So the physical exhaustion and soreness were at an all-time high at the same time as I was starting to get to do that show with muscle memory,” she says of the project. “And it took a while for that to happen. Like, ’cause it was a, I mean, it’s a three and a half hour show, but I was starting to be able to be like, okay, wait, my body’s getting more tired. My mind is more able to do this on autopilot, and I never wanna do this show on autopilot. So, I need to do something to flex these creative muscles and go in there and like really exercise that other part of my brain. And what it ended up doing was like reinvigorating every single aspect of my life, including the tour. Which made me just able to like, recommit myself to the show even more. If that makes any sense.”
Her song “Wood” is making headlines for its shocking lyrical content. She said her mom may be oblivious that the song is about her fiancé’s manhood.
“I think that she thinks that that song is about superstitions, popular superstitions, which, which it absolutely is,” she shares. “That’s the joy of the double entendre. That song, you could read that song for people, and it just goes right over their heads. That song, you see in that song what you wanna see in that song.”
Over the weekend, Swift released four limited edition CDs with two acoustic bonus tracks each. They were available for 24 hours only. Those add to an onslaught of variants offered through her online store and Target.
The Life of a Showgirl broke multiple major records, setting new milestones in both sales and streaming upon its release last week. The album sold 1.2 million vinyl copies in its debut week in the US, surpassing the previous record holder, which was her own album, The Tortured Poets Department at 859,000 copies. It sold 2.7 million copies (physical and digital) in the U.S. on its first day of release, a feat that surpassed the entire first-week sales of her previous album, The Tortured Poets Department, with 2.61 million equivalent album units.
The 2.7 million first-day sales made it the second-largest sales week for any album since Luminate began tracking data in 1991, trailing only Adele’s 25, which sold 3.378 million in its first week. The first-day sales volume instantly made it the best-selling album of the year.
Before its release, the album broke the record for the most pre-saves on Spotify, surpassing six million pre-saves and breaking the previous record held by The Tortured Poets Department. The album became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day for the year, reaching the milestone in under 11 hours. The lead single, “The Fate of Ophelia,” broke the record for the most-streamed song in a single day on Spotify, accumulating over 30 million streams.
The album became the most-streamed album of all time in its first day on Amazon Music. It also captured the year’s highest first-day album streams worldwide on Apple Music.
The limited theatrical release of the film, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, grossed an estimated $33 million in North America, becoming the highest-grossing album debut event in cinema history.
