"As expected, Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl has broken records on its way to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. Swift's 15th LP debuted with 4.002 million equivalent album units (including pure album sales and streaming activity), with pure album sales totaling 3,479,500, 1.3 million of which were vinyl sales, reports via Luminate."
""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," Swift wrote on Instagram celebrating the news. "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.""
"Swift's eye-watering numbers have broken her out of a tie with Drake and Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums among soloists, and she is now the only act with the second-most No. 1s since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a weekly basis in 1956 ( the Beatles still currently hold the record with 19 No. 1s). Additionally, the top 12 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 this week are occupied by the entirety of The Life of a Showgirl, with "The Fate of Ophelia" claiming the top spot."
Taylor Swift's 15th album, The Life of a Showgirl, debuted at No. 1 with 4.002 million equivalent album units, including 3,479,500 pure album sales and 1.3 million vinyl copies. The total surpasses the modern-era single-week sales record of 3.482 million units set in 2015. All 12 tracks from the album occupy the top 12 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, led by "The Fate of Ophelia." Swift now surpasses Drake and Jay-Z for the most No. 1 albums among soloists and is the sole act with the second-most No. 1s since 1956; the Beatles hold 19. The album features Sabrina Carpenter and collaborators Max Martin and Shellback, and it launched with a limited-time cinema event.
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