Taylor Swift has reached another historic milestone on the Billboard 200, as The Life of a Showgirl spends a 14th week at No. 1 with 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week. The achievement brings Taylor Swift to 100 total weeks atop the chart, making her the first solo artist in history to reach the mark and joining The Beatles as the only acts ever to spend at least 100 weeks at No. 1.
The latest frame extends the album’s remarkable run at the summit, following last week’s return to the top with 173,000 units.
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Among Taylor Swift’s albums, The Tortured Poets Department remains her longest-running No. 1, with 17 weeks at the summit. The Life of a Showgirl now follows with 14 weeks, ahead of Fearless and 1989, which each spent 11 weeks at No. 1. With three more weeks needed to match The Tortured Poets Department, Showgirl still has room to climb further up her personal rankings.
The album’s latest chart run follows the release of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded edition featuring four additional songs. The deluxe release generated 40.5 million global Spotify streams in its first 24 hours, setting a record for the biggest deluxe-album debut in the platform’s history. Taylor Swift reunited with longtime collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for the extra material after traveling to Sweden roughly a year after the original album’s release.
The original The Life of a Showgirl also opened with a historic 4.002 million equivalent album units in the United States, including 3,479,500 pure album sales and 680.9 million streams. That debut established the biggest single-week consumption total in Billboard 200 history at the time, setting an exceptionally high benchmark for the album’s subsequent chart performance.
Elsewhere on the latest Billboard 200, Drake’s HABIBTI re-peaks at No. 2, jumping 114 places with 71,000 units following the release of its FOMO edition. The Beatles’ Rubber Soul returns at No. 4 with 58,000 units after its Super Deluxe reissue; the 1965 album previously spent six weeks at No. 1 in 1966.
Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine also makes a substantial comeback, returning to the top 10 at No. 10 after climbing 149 places with 32,000 units. The album’s 10th-anniversary reissue has revived interest in the 2016 release, which originally peaked at No. 2.
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