Taylor Swift’s New Album Breaking Records And Debuts At Number One
Taylor Swift‘s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart after selling a record-breaking 4.002 million equivalent album units – including 3.48 million pure album sales – in its first week. That’s the largest single-week sales and album consumption figures since Luminate first began tracking data in 1991.
Opening week sales of The Life of a Showgirl broke the record previously set by the opening frame of Adele’s 25, which recorded 3.482 million units (3.378 million pure album sales) in November 2015. This achievement gives Swift her record-setting 15th No. 1 album, the most ever for a solo artist – surpassing Drake and JAY-Z – while making her second only to The Beatles all-time record of 19 No. 1 albums.