Taylor Swift’s return to mainstream pop music has been widely hailed as a big success, and her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has taken the globe by storm. This record has achieved some incredible new heights, even for Swift, a singer-songwriter who has been pushing the frontiers of the industry for almost 20 years. The Life of a Showgirl has set and broken a number of outstanding milestones thus far.
After her intensely cathartic work in The Tortured Poets Department, Swift’s artistic endeavors underwent a dramatic change with TLOAS. Even though The Life of a Showgirl had mixed reviews when it was released on October 3, 2025, it still broke records and rose to the top of the charts. These are all of the records that TLOAS has broken so far.
The highest-ever first-week sales in a single week
The first-week equivalent-unit record held by Adele’s 25, which released in 2015 with about 3.482 million units, was exceeded by TLOAS, which earned 4.002 million equivalent album units in the US. Swift currently has six of the top ten entries in the top ten biggest weeks, by units, according to Billboard’s data tracker, Luminate.
Sales record on the first day
In the United States, the album sold 2.7 million physical and digital copies on its first day, setting a record for 2025 single-day sales.
Spotify’s most pre-saved album ever
The Life of a Showgirl set some pretty incredible records even before it was released. With an incredible 6 million pre-saves prior to its official release, it became the most pre-saved album on Spotify.
The majority of Billboard 200 No. 1 albums Swift’s 15th No. 1 album, Among Soloists, broke the tie she had with Drake when it peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. With 19 albums, the Beatles are currently the only musician with more No. 1 albums than Swift. Accordingly, Swift is the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboards 200.
2025’s highest single-day streaming figures
On the day of its release, The Life of a Showgirl had its highest single-day streaming figures. It just doesn’t match the figure Swift previously attained with TTPD. Swift currently has the top four positions in the top ten largest streaming day statistics thanks to this addition.
weekly sales of the most albums
In its first week of release, The Life of a Showgirl sold 3,479,500 copies of the album alone, including digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs, and cassette tapes. This is the biggest record sales week since 1991, according to Luminate, Billboard’s electronic music sales tracker.
For weeks, it topped the Billboard 200.
After seven weeks in a row, The Life of a Showgirl remains at the top of the Billboard 200, where it started.
The greatest week ever for vinyl sales in the modern age
Swifties and their passion for collecting various vinyl editions have increased vinyl sales for TLOAS, despite the fact that the majority of music listeners listen to music on their phones. In its first week, the record sold more vinyl than any other album since 1991, with over 1.3 million copies sold.
