Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Debuts With Record-Shattering No. 1 on Billboard 200
Selling 4 million units in its first week.
Summary
- Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
- The album earned a record 4.002 million units, the largest weekly sum since 1991
- Swift now holds the second-most No. 1 albums ever, surpassing Drake and JAY-Z
Taylor Swift is opening this week’s Billboard 200 with the record-shattering The Life of a Showgirl at No. 1.
Her latest record earns 4.002 million equivalent album units in its first week, including 3,479,500 in album sales and 522,600 in streaming equivalent album units (680.9 million on-demand streams). The Life of a Showgirl sets new records as the largest weekly sums for an album since Luminate began electronically collecting data in 1991.
In addition, she dethrones Adele’s 25 for the most single-week equivalent album units and pure album sales. Swift is also now the artist with the second-most No. 1s behind The Beatles as she breaks her tie with Drake and JAY-Z.
Elsewhere on this week’s top 10 are the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack at No. 2, Morgan Wallen at Nos. 3 and 10, Cardi B at No. 4 and Sabrina Carpenter at No. 5. Making up the bottom half are Bad Bunny, Olivia Dean, Alex Warren and SZA at Nos. 6 to 9, respectively.
