This marks the mega pop star’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart

Taylor Swift attends the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Per Billboard, “The Life of a Showgirl” debuted with 4.002 million equivalent album units, which includes pure album sales and streams in the U.S. for the week ending Thursday (Oct. 9). Album sales in total came out to 3,479,500.

On her major milestone, Swift noted on Instagram Monday: “I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week. I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energy into it. Since then I’ve tried to meet and thank as many people as I could who have given me the chance to chase this insane dream. Here we are all these years later and a hundred times that many people showed up for me this week.”

As she went on, Swift said she had “4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans.”

“Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’” she added. “I’ll cherish this feeling forever. Just wow. Thank you for the lovely bouquet.”

“The Life of a Showgirl” debuted on Oct. 3 and breaks the tie held between Drake and Jay-Z for having the most No. 1 albums for a solo artist, and is also now the solo project with the second-most No. 1s, a feat The Beatles still lead with 19.

On Oct. 8, Swift broke Adele’s record for “25,” with the highest combined sales and streaming consumption numbers, after “The Life of a Showgirl” moved over 3.5 million units in five days on Oct. 8. “25” held the No. 1 spot for nearly 10 years.

As TheWrap previously reported, Swift has surpassed her own, previous first-week record, which was set in 2024 by “The Tortured Poets Department.” That record accumulated a combined 2.61 million sales and equivalent album units in its debut week. Last week, Swift also captured the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office with the release of “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,” her in-theater album tie-in event that raked in $33 million in its three-day run.

Before “The Life of a Showgirl” was even released, the album had also already set the record for the most pre-saves of a single album in Spotify history. Its record-breaking numbers continue to create a stark contrast between the album’s commercial performance and the divided online reactions it has provoked.