Taylor Swift smashes UK, US records with The Life of a Showgirl

Taylor Swift has broken new ground with her latest album -- The Life of a Showgirl, posting massive numbers in both the UK and US and setting new records in streaming and physical sales. According to a report by the BBC, the album sold 304,000 copies since Friday, surpassing the first-week sales of her previous albums -- The Tortured Poets Department (270,000 in 2024) and Midnights (204,000 in 2022). With just three days counted, it has already become the UK’s highest first-week total since Ed Sheeran’s Divide sold 672,000 copies in 2017, the report said. It added that Swift is now poised to overtake Sabrina Carpenter for 2025’s best-selling album. Carpenter, who features on the title track of Swift’s new...