According to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate, the tracks on The Life of a Showgirl have generated more than 460 million on-demand official streams in the United States since the album’s release on Oct. 3. There are multiple versions of album on streaming services: a standard 12-song edition, a track-by-track commentary edition that includes the 12 songs plus commentary tracks from Swift, and a track-by-track commentary edition that has Swift’s commentary and lyric videos for each of the songs. […] The sales continue to come in to Luminate for The Life of a Showgirl and it may soon topple Adele’s longstanding record for the largest sales week for an album in the modern era. Adele’s 25 debuted with 3.378 million copies sold in its first week in 2015 — the biggest sales week for any album since Luminate began tracking data in 1991 (when the modern era of music sales tabulation began).
Taylor Swift Talks With Zane Lowe
Taylor Swift sat down with Zane Lowe for a new interview.
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Taylor Swift was a guest on The Tonight Show last night. Clips from the show can be found below.
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Taylor Swift’s new album brought in over $33 million at the box office and 2.7 million day-one album sales.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl launch has shown once again that it’s Taylor’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The special album release event dwarfed the competition at the box office over the weekend, debuting to an impressive $33 million domestic and $13 million overseas. That’s a record-breaking number for what is neither a concert film nor a documentary, but a timed promotional event for the release of her new album.
The album dropped on Friday and is already setting records. After just one day, The Life of a Showgirl has secured the second-highest weekly sales for any album since tracking of such things began in the early 1990s. Billboard’s Luminate reported that the album sold 2.7 million copies on Friday alone.
Taylor Swift – “The Fate of Ophelia” Video
Taylor Swift has released a video for “The Fate of Ophelia.”
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Taylor Swift revealed she has has no plans for a tour at the moment on BBC Radio 1 with Greg James.
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Taylor Swift will join “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on October 6th.
Taylor Swift Announces Album Film
Taylor Swift has announced a 89-minute film that will debut at select theaters October 3rd-5th.
Taylor Swift Announces Engagement
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have announced their engagement.
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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl will be out on October 3rd. She debuted the album cover on the New Heights podcast. Twelve songs, no deluxe or bonus tracks, produced by Taylor, Max Martin, and Shellback.
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Taylor Swift has announced pre-pre-orders for The Life of a Showgirl.
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According to figures Spotify shared with The Hollywood Reporter, streams on all of the original versions of her older albums at least doubled on Friday, May 30, compared to the albums’ average daily streams from April 1 through May 29. (Spotify didn’t disclose specific streaming numbers themselves, only percentage changes.)
Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters
Taylor Swift has announced she now owns her music again.
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Taylor Swift’s version of “Look What You Made Me Do” appeared on a new episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Can it really be your “first documented, official pop album” if you’ve already released three of the biggest pop albums in recent memory? 10 years ago this weekend, Taylor Swift delivered the answer to that question, and the answer was a decisive, resounding “Yes.”
From the vantage point of 2024, it’s almost difficult to remember any version of Taylor Swift that wasn’t a world-conquering, stadium-tour-dominating pop star. The past two years of Taylormania have so thoroughly dwarfed any other pop star achievement in my lifetime that it’s even a little difficult to think back to pre-COVID times, when it seemed like the Taylor Swift machine was maybe starting to run out of gas. As mid-decade lists pour out from every music publication out there, I expect plenty of debates about what was the quote-unquote “best song” or “best album” of the decade. When it comes to discussing the artist of the decade so far, though, there is simply no debate: it’s Taylor, then it’s 93 million miles, and then it’s everyone else.
But it wasn’t always that way, and in the Taylor Swift story, it’s album number five, 2014’s 1989, that serves as arguably the most important inflection point between phase one Taylor and the force of nature we know today. Per the narrative, Taylor Swift before 2014 was a country star who had crossed over to pop music success but never fully left her Nashville roots behind. 1989, in being her “first documented, official pop album” – the weird phrasing she used to describe the LP when she officially announced it in August 2014 – was the album that made the crossover complete, and solidified Taylor’s status as the world’s biggest musical star in the process.
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