Taylor Swift's new album breaks her own sales records

Taylor Swift's latest album,‘The Life of a Showgirl’,has already secured the UK's biggest opening week of 2025, after selling 304,000 copies.

The total eclipses first-week sales of her last two studio albums 2024's The tortured Poets Department (270,000 copies) and 2022's Midnights (204,000).

With just three days counted, she has achieved the UK's biggest first-week sales since Ed Sheeran's Divide sold 672,000 copies in 2017.

The star is also on track to have the biggest-selling album of the year overall.

The current title holder is Sabrina Carpenter, who appears on Life of a Showgirl's title track. Her Short N' Sweet album has shifted 444,000 copies since January.

Swift has also broken records in the US, where she notched up 2.7 million sales on Friday alone.

That marks Swift's biggest sales week ever, and the second-largest sales week for any album since 1991, when modern chart methodology began.

Only Adele's 25 has done better selling 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015.

The Life of a Showgirl has also smashed the US record for the most vinyl albums sold in a single week.

Swifties snapped up 1.2 million copies on wax - at least in part because the star released eight collectable variants of the record.

The previous single-week record was also set by Swift when her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.

Source: BBC