Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl extends its reign atop the Billboard 200, securing a 15th week at No. 1 with 87,000 equivalent album units. The latest milestone brings the blockbuster release closer to matching The Tortured Poets Department, which spent 17 weeks at the summit.
The album’s latest chart victory follows a 14th week at No. 1, when it earned 93,000 units. Although consumption has eased slightly, Swift continues to dominate the U.S. album chart.
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With this week’s result, Taylor Swift’s albums have accumulated 101 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making her the first solo artist to reach the milestone. The Beatles remain the only other act to surpass the 100-week mark, placing Swift in exceptionally rare company in the chart’s history.
Within her own catalog, The Life of a Showgirl ranks second among her longest-running Billboard 200 No. 1 albums. The Tortured Poets Department remains the benchmark with 17 weeks at the summit, while Fearless and 1989 each spent 11 weeks in the top position.
The ongoing success also follows the release of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded edition featuring four additional songs. The deluxe project generated 40.5 million global Spotify streams in its first 24 hours, setting a platform record for the biggest debut by a deluxe album. Taylor Swift reunited with longtime collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for the new material after traveling to Sweden approximately a year after the original album’s release.
The original The Life of a Showgirl established its commercial dominance from the outset. It debuted with 4.002 million equivalent album units in the United States, including 3,479,500 pure album sales and 680.9 million streams. That opening established a new benchmark for the biggest single-week consumption total in Billboard 200 history at the time, providing the foundation for its extended chart run.
Elsewhere in the top five, Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love climbs from No. 3 to No. 2 with 65,000 equivalent album units, down 1%. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem rises from No. 5 to No. 3 with 55,000 units, while Ella Langley’s Dandelion advances from No. 6 to No. 4 with 53,000. Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide rounds out the top five, moving from No. 7 to No. 5 with 45,000 units.
Greta Van Fleet also earns its fourth top 10-charting project as Palace for the People debuts at No. 9 with 30,000 equivalent album units.
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