Taylor Swift’s new album breaks her personal gross sales data

Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, has already secured the UK’s largest opening week of 2025, after promoting 304,000 copies since Friday.

The whole eclipses the first-week gross sales of her final two studio albums: 2024’s The Tortured Poets Departent (270,000 copies) and 2022’s Midnights (204,000).

With simply three days counted, she has achieved the UK’s largest first-week gross sales since Ed Sheeran’s Divide offered 672,000 copies in 2017.

The star can be on observe to have the biggest-selling album of the 12 months total. The present title holder is Sabrina Carpenter, who seems on Life of a Showgirl’s title observe. Her Short N’ Sweet album has shifted 444,000 copies since January.

Swift has additionally damaged data within the US, the place she notched up 2.7 million gross sales on Friday alone.

That marks Swift’s largest gross sales week ever, and the second-largest gross sales week for any album since 1991, when fashionable chart methodology started.

Only Adele’s 25 has finished higher – promoting 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015.

The Life of a Showgirl has additionally smashed the US report for essentially the most vinyl albums offered in a single week.

Swifties snapped up 1.2 million copies on wax – not less than partly as a result of the star launched eight collectable variants of the report.

The earlier single-week report was additionally set by Swift when her final album, The Tortured Poets Department, offered 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.

Swift’s gross sales figures are all of the extra spectacular as a result of album gross sales elsewhere within the business are in a state of perpetual decline.

In the UK, just one different album has shifted greater than 100,000 copies in per week this 12 months – Sam Fender’s People Watching.

Ed Sheeran’s newest, Play, offered 67,000 items when it got here out final month.

During the summer season, two albums (Reneé Rapp’s Bite Me and the Oasis compilation Time Flies) topped the charts with fewer than 20,000 gross sales.

Not content material with chart domination, nonetheless, Swift topped the cinema field workplace this weekend, promoting $46m (£34m) in tickets for her 89-minute movie Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl.

Essentially an album launch occasion, the screenings included the premiere of her music video for The Fate Of Ophelia, behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the album, and Swift’s commentary on the songs.

Swift’s twelfth album was written and recorded throughout stolen moments on the European leg of her Eras Tour final summer season.

It captures the star as she falls in love with American Footballer Travis Kelce; interspersed with cautionary – and typically catty – tales in regards to the music business.

Critical opinions have been blended. Variety journal known as it “contagiously joyful” whereas the Financial Times stated it “lacked sparkle“.

Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show with Scott Mills, the star debunked rumours that it might be her final album.

Asked if she deliberate to retire for a lifetime of home bliss, as some followers have recommended, the singer laughed: “That’s a shockingly offensive thing to say.

“It’s not why individuals get married – in order that they’ll give up their job.”