Taylor SwiftS “Life on a showgirl“Have the second highest week’s sales call for all albums, ever … after just one day. Per Message boardLuminate has reported that the album sold 2.7 million copies on Friday.
It breaks her personal record for most records she has ever sold in a week – and even someone else’s, except Adele’s. The record for the most album sales in one week is held by Adele’s “25”, which sold 3.4 million copies during the first seven days back in 2015. Swift still has six days of sales activity left to try to exceed that brand.
Luminat also reported that “The Life of a Showgirl” set a record for the most vinyl copies sold in one week, with 1.2 million sold directly from the gate. The record for a whole week was previously also held by Swift, which set it last year by selling 859,000 copies of “The tortured Poets Department” during the first seven days, something she surpassed by more than 300,000 units in just one day.
Swift’s previous best when it comes to overall figures were also “tortured poets.” It was launched in 2024 with 2.61 million units throughout the week, and the singer has already topped it in one day.
Of course, these first days number for “Showgirl” includes all pre -orders that were sold for a period of weeks in advance and sent to arrive in stores and in customers’ mailboxes on Friday.
All these figures are only for the United States, Luminat pointed out.
Many variant editions of “The Life of a Showgirl” were sold in advance, most of those who limited editions through Swift’s online store that quickly sold out. Target has the only retail extensions, and the only ones still available, with a vinyl variant and three CDs in stores. (The variants differ only in packaging, not in musical content, as all copies contain the same 12 songs.)
Target left about 500 of its stores open after midnight Thursday evening for Swifties who wanted to set up for the first crack on holding physical copies in their hands.
Luminat is the successor to Soundscan, and one of these record numbers refers to ERA since 1991, when Soundscan came on stage and began to offer reliable weekly sales fees for recordings.
The album will not be Swift’s only No. 1 this week. Her theatrical event ”Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party for a Showgirl“Plays for three days only in theaters this weekend and will easily top the cash office. Amount reported earlier on Saturday that That theater release earned $ 15.8 million only on its first day.
