Taylor Swift Breaks Adele’s Record with 'The Life of a Showgirl'

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl just broke Adele’s record with 3.5 million first-week sales. Here’s how she pulled it off. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

Taylor Swift just pulled off something huge—she broke one of Adele’s most iconic records. Her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, sold a staggering 3.5 million copies in its first week, making it the biggest debut since Adele’s 25 back in 2015.

That’s right—Swift’s latest project has officially dethroned Adele’s legendary first-week sales of 3.378 million copies. According to Deadline, The Life of a Showgirl moved 3.2 million in physical and digital album sales, plus another 300,000 equivalent units from streaming, for a total of 3.5 million.