Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl album is off to a glittering start in the US. Billboard reports that on its first day of release, 3 October, her new record sold 2.7 million copies in traditional album sales (physical and digital purchases) across all versions of the album. Data tracking firm Luminate indicates that this was Swift's biggest week ever, and the second-largest sales week for any album in the modern era - since electronic tracking began in 1991. The only album to beat Swift's figures was Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl also takes the new modern-era record for the most copies of a vinyl album sold in a single week, having already sold 1.2 million. That breaks the single-week record, set by Swift in 2024 with her last album, The Tortured Poets Department. The sales of The Life of a Showgirl will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday. 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 ever.