She calls herself an English teacher, but maybe Taylor Swift should rebrand as an econ prof: Show(girl) business is booming. Her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, has already broken multiple sales and streaming records since it dropped on October 3. Swift next seems poised to say “Hello” to Adele’s record for most album sales in a week. Below, all the milestones that she’s approaching or has already hit with this new release.

The Day of a Showgirl

Swift set several new records on release day. Spotify confirmed on October 3 that “The Fate of Ophelia,” which garnered more than 30 million streams on release day, had become the most-streamed song in a single day in the history of the streaming service. (She broke her own record by a significant gap; “Fortnight” got 25 million first-day streams in April 2024). Just 11 hours after dropping, the entire Life of a Showgirl album also racked up the most single-day Spotify streams in 2025. The 12-track project also nabbed the biggest first-day streams this year on Apple Music. Amazon Music tweeted that Swift’s album had also set a new record on its platform for the most amount of streams an album has gotten in 24 hours.

The Week of a Showgirl

Swift could potentially claim the title that Adele has defended for a decade for most first-week sales in the U.S.. Adele’s 25 sold 3.378 million copies in 2015; for reference, Luminate reports that Swift’s Life of a Showgirl logged 2.7 million physical and digital sales on release day alone. Early projections suggests that she is on track to cross the 3.5 million or even 4 million threshold. Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the 304,000 copies it sold in three days already earned her the biggest opening-week sales in the U.K. this year.

Swift has already set the U.S. record for most vinyl records sold in a week with eight variants of Showgirl collectively tallying up to 1.2 million copies sold by October 4, per Billboard. (This demolishes the previous record that she set with The Tortured Poets Department, which sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in its first week.)

The Life of a Showgirl

If the album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — as every album of hers since 2008 has — she will secure an all-time achievement, breaking a tie with Drake and Jay-Z to become the soloist with the most No. 1 albums in the history of the chart. The Life of a Showgirl would be her 15th No. 1.

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 All the records that Taylor Swift’s latest album has already broken or is poised to break next, from Adele’s to her own.