It was already established, before the chart week was even over, that Taylor Swift ‘s “ The Life of a Showgirl ” would not just bow at No. 1 but set a record for the highest number of equivalent album units in a single week. So the only question was how high it would go when figures were tallied up for all seven days. Now the answer is in. “Showgirl” officially bowed with 4.002 million equivalent album units million units for its first week, in Luminate data reported by Billboard . That’s a figure that breaks the previous record for most units in a week by more than a half-million.

Swift also set another chart record just by having the album debut at No. 1: According to Billboard, now that she is topping the chart with a 15th album, she now is the solo artist with the most No. 1 a

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