Taylor Swift Ties Drake's No. 1 Record as The Life of a Showgirl Makes History

Taylor Swift’s 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving her 15 chart-topping albums and tying Drake for the most among solo artists. The first-week numbers are the real headline: 3.479 million copies sold, the largest sales week since Luminate began tracking in 1991. That also makes Swift the first artist with eight different albums that each sold at least a million copies in a single week.

Her singles résumé is just as stacked. She remains the only artist to occupy the entire Hot 100 top 10 in a single week, something she has now accomplished three times, and she holds the record for most top 10 Hot 100 hits among women with 74.“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)”is still the longest-running No. 1 in Hot 100 history at 10 minutes and 13 seconds.

What stands out most is the timing. In an era where streaming dominates and album sales were supposed to be an afterthought, Swift keeps turning release weeks into events, with vinyl and physical formats doing serious heavy lifting. Twenty years into her career, she isn’t just competing on the charts. She’s setting the records everyone else is measured against.

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