This chart shows the first-week US sales of Taylor Swift's studio albums in millions of equivalent album units, as tracked by Luminate for Billboard. The Life of a Showgirl opened with about 4 million units in 2025, the biggest sales week f...
About: Taylor Swift Albums by First-Week US Sales
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Taylor Swift's first-week numbers defy every trend in the music industry: while album sales collapsed everywhere over the past 15 years, hers kept climbing. The Life of a Showgirl's roughly 4 million first-week units in 2025 is over 50% bigger than The Tortured Poets Department's 2.61 million, which itself was the biggest week of the decade when it landed in 2024. The pattern breaks cleanly around 2022: her first six albums opened between 0.85 and 1.29 million, then Midnights (1.58 million) began an acceleration that coincides with the Eras Tour era of her career. She has effectively achieved something no other artist has - making the traditional album launch bigger in the streaming age than it ever was in the CD age.
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Taylor Swift Albums by First-Week US Sales
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First-Week US Units (Millions) · 2010-2025| # | Category | 2010-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | The Life of a Showgirl (2025) | 4 |
| 🥈 | The Tortured Poets Department (2024) | 2.61 |
| 🥉 | Midnights (2022) | 1.58 |
| 4 | 1989 (2014) | 1.29 |
| 5 | Reputation (2017) | 1.22 |
| 6 | Red (2012) | 1.21 |
| 7 | Speak Now (2010) | 1.05 |
| 8 | Lover (2019) | 0.87 |
| 9 | Folklore (2020) | 0.85 |
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