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Taylor Swift’s ‘Life of a ShowShowgirl’ Opens With Record Sales, Streaming Highs and a No. 1 Box Office Event

Official metrics place the launch second only to Adele’s 2015 opening week.

Overview

  • Luminate reports 2.7 million U.S. sales within 24 hours of release on October 3.
  • First-week vinyl sales hit 1.2 million, a new record that surpasses Swift’s own 2024 benchmark.
  • Spotify says the album logged 2025’s top single-day streams and “The Fate of Ophelia” set the platform’s all-time single-day song record.
  • Apple Music and Amazon Music also recorded the year’s highest single-day album streams within the first 24 hours.
  • The 89-minute companion film played in 8,000+ cinemas across 50+ countries from October 3–5, grossing about $33 million in the U.S. and $46 million worldwide to lead the weekend box office.