Taylor Swift Shatters Her ‘Tortured Poets’ Record With New Album — In One Day
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The Life of a Showgirl breaks Taylor Swift’s own sales record, surpassing The Tortured Poets Department and setting a new standard for albums in the streaming era. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 02: An exclusive edition vinyl of Taylor Swift’s new album, “Life of a Showgirl” is seen at Target on October 02, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Valerie Terranova/Getty Images) Getty Images Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, the most highly-anticipated album in recent memory, has arrived — and it only needed a few hours to become one of the greatest musical successes in American history. Last year, when Swift released The Tortured Poets Department, she reset her own records for her largest opening week. Now, her latest full-length has managed to shatter those previously-set high points, and it’s done so in a manner even she likely couldn’t have predicted just a short time ago. The Life of a Showgirl Sells 2.7 Million Copies in One Day The Life of a Showgirl sold 2.7 million copies in its first day of availability. That sum includes all forms of actual purchases, from fans buying the set digitally via iTunes or Amazon to picking up physical copies in brick-and-mortar stores. That number also encompasses preorders made through major retailers, online outlets, and Swift’s official web store, where multiple special editions were made available for short periods of time. Taylor Swift Breaks Her Tortured Poets Department Sales Record in One Day The Life of a Showgirl now claims the honor of earning Swift’s largest debut tracking week, and it’s still just getting started. She reset that record last year when The Tortured Poets Department arrived. The lengthy project opened with 2.61 million equivalent units, earning the singer her first two million-unit week. That sum included 1.914 million actual…
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