Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (October 3, 2025) • Page 95

my dad did too. i think the only chance of Anthology 4 going to #1 is getting every dad out there to pre-order that boxset, lol

 

The Wicked soundtrack is the only album coming out that day that could beat it, but I don't think a soundtrack is going to do it.

That being said, mark my words, Taylor is going to pull some shit that week. A deluxe of this album, a variant or something, remixes, to block them

 

that's what i've been wondering as well

 

I think it's an impossible stat, but it would her so interesting to just know the number of humans who listened to the album vs number of humans who listened to Adele

 

do we have second week sales numbers?

 

For Taylor? You gotta time travel to Friday for those

 

my parents, both big Chiefs fans, had only passing familiarity with Taylor until she started dating Travis. come to find out they went to see the release party film and were somehow so impressed they went and collectively bought 7 copies of the album... like i'm glad they enjoyed it, but 7 copies for what might be one of her worst albums?

 

In art there is generally a thought of "1,000 true fans" who will do the most. Obviously, her scale of that is much larger. But I think we'd all be fooling ourselves if everyone only bought 1 copy of the album still wouldn't have easily cleared 2 million coming off the tour, if not closer to 2.5 even before streams. I don't think that many people are variant shopping all things considered. Not enough to swing a million more units.

Taylor will surpass that Beatles record as long as she makes music. I don't think her goal should be to do it fast, haha.

 

I wish there was some mechanism in place for Billboard to differentiate between digital sales of Life Of A Showgirl (Sparkly Farts Edition) and Life Of A Showgirl (Bedazzled Ass Edition) if it's the same 12 songs plus 2 bonus tracks, but it feels slimy to game the system by not releasing the bonus songs individually.

 

Are any of these bonus tracks actually different than the originals musically speaking? Or do they just have spoken introductions? I could not be bothered to listen to them myself lol

 

oh yeah, i forgot how dates work

 

All the acoustic versions are fully new music and vocals, they're pretty good

 

Taylor's impact is insane honestly. Like my mom doesn't pay attention to pop culture at all. She isn't even old but lives under a rock. But she loves Taylor so much she cried watching the live Reputation tour on Netflix lol. I think even without the variants she'd be breaking the records. Which is why it feels frustrating that she does what she does. I don't think it's enough for her to clear the record, I think she wants to break them and keep them so other artists won't break them down the road.

I think what's interesting about her too is that she's won her entire career. She's never had a flop era ever. Yet she still somehow perpetuates the underdog narrative or someone who has to fight being cancelled or beat the odds or whatever. And her fans are more than happy to see themselves as people who have to help her in that task like they're in it together. It's just fascinating. I'd love to see a sociology of Taylor Swift class that took a critical lens but wasn't over the top in either direction of being a fan or an anti.

 

must be hard for your wife

 

I have zero doubt she's been looking at every record on the Billboard 200 Wiki page for a long time now. She's been upfront lately that she's thinking about her legacy. Watching the milestones broken and/or leaps made in every category since 2020 has been insane to witness as a bystander.

- 1 more year with a new album to top The Beatles for most consecutive years at number one! (Will be accomplished with Debut TV or whatever she calls it in 2026)
- 5 more #1 albums to top The Beatles for most number-one albums! (Whatever Debut TV ends up being called, Rep Vault Tracks, and three more albums this decade seems realistic via new studio albums, live albums, etc.)
- 46 more weeks at #1 to top The Beatles for most cumulative weeks at number one! (Only a matter of time. She's had 46 weeks at #1 just since 2020 if my calculations are correct.)

The two thorns in her side must be The Monkees and Prince. The Monkees had four number-ones in a calendar year, while Taylor had three number-ones in two different calendar years. So close to tying! And then she shares the most albums in the top 10 simultaneously at five a piece with Prince. But as the page notes, Swift is the first LIVING artist to chart five albums in the top 10 simultaneously. Take that asterisk, Prince!

Other than a couple other miscellaneous records and one that's simply unattainable at this point in her career (most top-10 albums), she owns basically every artist milestone.

Can't imagine she enjoys the fact that Morgan Wallen has had two albums spend at least 100 weeks in the top 10, while she hasn't had one accomplish that feat yet. Not going to lie, I don't enjoy that stat either. But good on SZA being the only other artist to accomplish this feat with any one album!

 

Sza kinda.... Just because her album was released as an add on deluxe, not a standalone album

 

They distinguished between the SEAs and the pure sales, streaming earned ~500k