Missed opportunity from Sabrina Carpenter not releasing mans best friend as an extended edition of short and sweet called “Short and Swet (long and hard edition)”
Experience a streaming event for the eras. Taylor Swift’s 6-episode docuseries, “The End of an Era," streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning December 12. 🫶
people don't really understand how bad it turned out.
which is odd because idk how much more direct she could be. their entire relationship by the end was based on the premise of being unwell and sad together.
Have you or anyone else you know of transcribed the song intros from the movie yet?
it’s on the theoretical list, though again, we’re at a point where it seems like i’m just too late on any of it. like i said, i really fucked up this promo run, and i’m sorry. i didn’t intend to get this behind.
lastly and this really is the end of my like six topic rant it feels really shitty to look at my dash and see numerous vagueposts from mutuals flying around. i do a lot for this fandom and even though i don't ask for anything in return i would at least appreciate people either treating me with kindness, messaging me when they disagree, or simply unfollowing, especially when i go out of my way to treat everyone with kindness as much as possible. i understand this has been a complicated album release with a lot of feelings for a lot of people. but my god
The amount of people saying taylor sued olivia.. please guys... google it.. please.. jack has explicitly said they didnt request credit from olivia, her team did that
I was thinking abt the olivia situation the other day bc it truly does make me mad on olivia's behalf and not bc of taylor or paramore but bc of her team and record label. If you ask me, her two songs sound nothing like misery business and cruel summer, and if they do it's just in the way songs very often sound like each other. There's only so much you can do to make a song unique. It's normal! But when the misery business stuff happened her team super panicked bc olivia was such a new artist and she can't risk a hit in her career like that so they gave credits whether they actually needed to or not. And i realized that it really was a double edged sword. By giving credits, it makes olivia the victim (which is what her team presumably wanted in this case) and taylor and paramore the perpetrators. If they didn't give credits, then olivia is the selfish bitch who knows she copied other artists and won't give credit where credit is due (should clarify this isn't my opinion and never will be). If her team offered the credits and paramore and taylor refused, then it works out fine for both parties image wise, but only if people know they refused. And with the way people believe taylor sued olivia for the credits, we know the public does not care about knowing the real story. Which, in order to unequivocally make olivia the good guy in the situation, they have to give the credits whether the other artists want it or not. This saves olivia's image because it makes the other artists look like selfish bitches, but if you ask me, diminishes her art. And i'm angry she had to do that for sour. She didn't deserve it.
Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' sold 2.7 million copies in the U.S. on its first day of release, according to Luminate.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl album is off to a sparkling start in the United States. On its first day of release, Oct. 3, the set sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales (physical and digital purchases) across all versions of the album, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. That marks Swift’s biggest week ever, and the second-largest sales week for any album in the modern era — since Luminate began electronically tracking data in 1991. The only larger sales week in that span of time was registered by the opening frame of Adele’s 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015.
Showgirl also stuns with a new modern-era record (1991-present) for the most copies of a vinyl album sold in a single week, having already sold 1.2 million copies on wax. That breaks the single-week record, set by Swift in 2024, when her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.
Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story are for the U.S. only.
Further news of first-week building sales and streaming activity for the album, as provided by Luminate, will be reported in the coming days.
The Life of a Showgirl was announced on Aug. 12, and Swift’s official webstore began taking preorders for the album soon after. The set was issued as a widely available streaming edition and in three widely available versions to purchase across all participating retailers (a standard CD, vinyl and digital download album). There is a plethora of further variants of the album to purchase, with more details on the assorted versions later in this story.
The sales of The Life of a Showgirl will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, Oct. 9. The album’s final first-week sales number is expected to be announced on Sunday, Oct. 12, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 18). If The Life of a Showgirl debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 15th No. 1 album, lifting her past Drake and JAY-Z for the most No. 1 albums among soloists, and becoming the sole act with the second-most No. 1s ever. She is currently tied with Drake and JAY-Z with 14 No. 1s each, and only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more, dating to when the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956.
All 14 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department have debuted at No. 1.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.
Sales Story: The 2.7 million-sales number registered for Showgirl is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of the album made on Oct. 3, in addition to what is assumed to be a large number of pre-orders of the physical album through Internet retailers (such as Swift’s webstore, Amazon, Target, etc.) shipped to customers for arrival on release day, as well as pre-orders of the digital download album that were redeemed on release day (via the iTunes Store and other similar sellers).
After one day on sale, The Life of a Showgirl is the top-selling album of 2025 in the U.S., surpassing the 520,000 sold of The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, through the week ending Sept. 25.
The Life of a Showgirl’s sales are bolstered by its availability across 23 different physical configurations: 12 CDs, eight vinyl LPs, two deluxe CD boxed sets containing branded clothing and a CD, and a cassette. Four of the physical editions were exclusively sold by Target stores in the U.S. (three CDs and one vinyl), while two (a standard CD and vinyl) were available to purchase at all participating retailers.
Of the remaining 17 physical iterations, all were exclusively sold via Swift’s webstore, and most were sold for limited windows of time since the preorder launched in August. Her store carried the two deluxe CD boxed sets (one contains a branded cardigan sweater and a CD, the other contains a branded crewneck and a CD); four signed CDs; four deluxe CDs in premium packaging containing a collectible charm and photo cards; six vinyl LPs; and the cassette.
On the digital download side, there is a standard digital download available to purchase through all download sellers, as well as an iTunes Store-exclusive version that comes with a short bonus video. (Of note, none of the tracks from the album are available to purchase individually.)
To compare, Swift’s last studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, had 19 different physical iterations available in its first week (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes) and two digital download versions (the standard 16-song album, and the surprise deluxe 31-song Anthology edition).
Vinyl Victory: Collectively, the eight vinyl LPs for Showgirl combined to sell 1.2 million copies on the album’s first day of release — immediately breaking the modern-era record for the most vinyl copies of an album sold in a single week. Swift herself previously held the record with 859,000 copies of Poets sold in its first week.
Million-Sellers Club: Even though we’re only one day down into the tracking week, The Life of a Showgirl sashays into the single-week million-sellers club. With 2.7 million already sold, Showgirl has the second-largest sales week of the modern era (1991-present). It stands behind only the opening week of Adele’s 25, which bowed with 3.378 million sold in 2015.
Showgirl is the eighth Swift album to have sold at least 1 million copies in a single week, following the debuts of Poets, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with eight different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the modern era. In total, there have been 27 instances — by 25 different albums — in which an album sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25 sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks.
with every album release, people love saying "oh you just didn't get it!" to those who don't love the new album........ it's such a silly excuse like you can get an album and also not like it. what if someone just doesn't like it. it's literally not always that deep
"Taylor doesn’t want people to dig into her life she needs to go back to storytelling writing." and then write about her stupid boyfirend's dick
Literally horrible. Should’ve stayed in the vault (something I’d never thought I’d say)
I was mostly thinking that the lack of depth might be due to holding the public at arms length. And if she doesn’t want people in her business then go back to fiction. Cause lyrics are her thing and this album had zero lyrical impact.
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