Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl had the biggest opening weekend of her career
It was the popstar's 14th Number 1 album too.
It's been a little while since Taylor Swift launched The Life of a Showgirl album and we now have an idea as to how the collection has fared. In the UK, the Official Charts has revealed that not only is it her 14th Number 1 album but it led to her biggest opening week of her career. Yep, of Taylor Swift's career.
In total, in its first week The Life of a Showgirl shifted a whopping 423,000 units in the UK alone, which as a point of reference is around 33% more than The Tortured Poets Department achieved recently when it notched up around 270,000 units. It wasn't the biggest album launch in the UK to date, as Ed Sheeran's Divide continues to hold that record by shipping a mega 672,000 units in its first week.
However with this being her 14th Number 1 album she does now draw with The Rolling Stones and has overtaken Elvis, showing the kind of company the popstar now keeps. She needs one more Number 1 album to join the UK's throne currently maintained by The Beatles and Robbie Williams, although she is in her company by being the fastest artist to reach this level of success.
As for some of the other records the album smashed, it had the most first-week downloads of the year, the most UK album streams in a week ever, and became the fastest-selling album on vinyl this century. Clearly while video games are struggling more and more with their physical-digital divide, music continues to operate in a more balanced climate.
