Taylor Swift has completed her The Life of a Showgirl first-week victory lap. Her prize? The top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, which marks her 15th Number One album and sets a new record for first-week sales with just over 4 million equivalent album units. Topping off that feat, songs from Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl also occupy all Top 12 spots in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

On Instagram, the singer reflected on the milestone in a post that looked back on the release of her self-titled debut album released nearly two decades ago. “I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week,” Swift wrote. “I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energ

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