"According to the Recording Industry Assn. of America, none of these albums - each the 12th studio LP by its respective maker - has sold 4 million copies in the United States in the decade or more since it was released."
"Yet that's what Taylor Swift just did in a single week with her 12th album, " The Life of a Showgirl," which Billboard reported Monday had moved 4.002 million copies in the seven days between Oct. 3 and 9. That figure, which combines sales and streaming numbers, represents the biggest opening week for an album in modern history, breaking the record set by Adele 10 years ago when her " 25 " moved 3.482 million units in its first week."
""I'll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week," she wrote. "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," she added, "and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was.""
Taylor Swift's 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, moved 4.002 million copies in the seven days between Oct. 3 and 9, combining sales and streaming. That opening week is the largest in modern history, surpassing Adele's 25, which moved 3.482 million units in its first week. Madonna's MDNA, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising and Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel — each an artist's 12th studio LP — did not reach 4 million in the decade after release. Swift thanked fans on Instagram and reflected on her 2006 first-week sales; Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem has reached 4.2 million over months, while Showgirl hit 4 million in a single week and will likely exceed Wallen's total soon.
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