Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015 in the US.

xNew York : That's show business for you! Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, has officially sold 4.002 million equivalent album units which includes album sales and streaming activity in its first week in the US. That is the biggest first week in modern music history, at least, according to Luminate, the industry data and analytics company that began tracking sales in 1991.

Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015 in the US.

The Life of a Showgirl was released October 3. In its first week, pure album sales totalled 3,479,500 copies.

She's also become the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on

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