"According to data tracking firm Luminate, the album has already sold 3.5m units in the US which equates to 3.2m physical copies and 300,000 attributed to streaming activity. Adele achieved 3.482m in 2015 with her opening week sales of 25 which was led by hit Hello. Adele's numbers were a modern-era record at the time for Luminate, which started electronically tracking album sales in 1991."
"The success comes after Swift's accompanying 89-minute theatrical release hit number one at the US box office. Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl made $34m in its opening weekend. In a two-star review, the Guardian's Adrian Horton called it a lazy cash-in. Reviews for The Life of a Showgirl have been mixed with the Guardian's Alexis Petridis calling it nowhere near as good as it should be given Swift's talents."
"If it's the first week of my album release and you are saying either my name or my album title, you're helping, she said. And art, I have a lot of respect for people's subjective opinions on art. I'm not the art police. It's like everybody is allowed to feel exactly how they want. And what our goal is as entertainers is to be a mirror."
Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl sold 3.5 million units in the US during its first week, including 3.2 million physical copies and 300,000 streaming-equivalent units. The opening-week total surpasses Adele's 3.482 million debut for 25 in 2015, with two days still remaining to increase the figure; 2.7 million albums were sold on the first day alone. The album was released in over 25 different iterations and follows Swift's previous first-week sales of 2.51 million for The Tortured Poets Department. The accompanying 89-minute theatrical release topped the US box office with $34 million. Critical reception has been mixed, and Swift addressed fan reactions, Super Bowl offer rumors, and an upcoming directorial debut.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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