Taylor Swift’s Life of a Showgirl Makes History With New Milestone

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Taylor Swift is married to the hustle.

That’s why Taylor Swift’s album, The Life of a Showgirl, has reached another impressive achievement. Released in October, it’s now been number one on the Billboard 200 chart for ten weeks straight. This makes it the fourth album in her career – after The Tortured Poets Department, 1989, and Fearless – to reach this milestone.

Taylor Swift’s new accomplishment with “Showgirl” makes her the first female artist, and only the third act ever—along with The Beatles and Elvis Presley—to have four albums remain at number one for at least 10 weeks, according to Billboard, which has tracked this data since 1956.

Although Taylor hasn’t publicly celebrated this particular achievement, she’s often spoken about how much she loves this album and considers it one of her strongest pieces of work.

Taylor recently shared that she created the record with her longtime collaborators, Max Martin and Shellback. She explained on the August 13th episode of New Heights that this is the first album they’ve made as just the three of them, with no other writers or producers involved. She described the experience as something truly special, like ‘catching lightning in a bottle’.

She said her aim with this, her twelfth studio album, was to create something she felt as good about as she did with The Eras Tour.

Taylor admitted she was setting high expectations for the album, but explained she didn’t mind because she felt so passionately about it. She described it as being created during a particularly fun, exciting, and emotional time in her life.

As she put it, “That effervescence comes through on this album.”

Taylor Swift had a remarkably successful launch with her new album, Showgirl. It earned an impressive $135 million in its first week, with over four million copies sold – a new record!

Taylor Swift expressed immense gratitude to her fans on Instagram, saying she has millions of thank yous to give. She also shared how incredibly proud she is of her new album and promised to always treasure this moment, simply writing, “Just wow.”

She ended her message with a line from the title track of the album – the one with Sabrina Carpenter on it! It was such a sweet touch, and she also thanked everyone for the beautiful flowers she received.

Taylor is famous for achieving incredible milestones, but that’s not all! Here are some other interesting things about her…

Taylor Swift is a talented songwriter who writes all of her own songs. However, her album Speak Now is particularly special because she wrote it completely on her own, without any collaborators. Released in October 2010, she was only 20 years old at the time.

She spent her childhood on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania with her family, and that experience inspired her holiday song, which shares the same name.

3. She’s named after James Taylor. That’s right, from one music legend to another.

Taylor Swift started her career like many other famous faces – including Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts, and Ashton Kutcher – by modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch in 2003.

Taylor Swift gifted Eric Church his first gold record. Back in 2006, she joined Rascal Flatts on tour after Church was let go. Church recalled that Swift reached out after reading about his dismissal, telling him she admired his work. He playfully predicted she would owe him a gold record if she achieved success with her own music. To his surprise, when Swift earned her first gold record, she sent him one along with a note thanking him for his energetic performance on the Rascal Flatts tour.

Taylor Swift has unusually flexible elbows – she’s double-jointed! When asked about any unique talents in a 2016 Vogue interview, she jokingly mentioned this as the only thing she could do, even though she admitted it wasn’t really a talent.

7. Her drink of choice? Vodka and Diet Coke, as revealed in that same Vogue video.

Taylor Swift disabled comments on her social media posts to avoid negativity and protect her mental health. In an essay for Elle magazine, she explained that while social media can be positive, it can also make you feel insecure by constantly comparing yourself to others. Turning off comments is her way of sharing updates with fans without needing their approval or validation. She wants to focus on her own well-being instead of seeking external praise.

Taylor Swift initially considered calling her seventh album Daylight, but she ultimately chose Lover. She felt Daylight was too obvious as a follow-up to her previous album, reputation. After writing the song “Lover,” she decided it would be the perfect title for the entire project.

Taylor Swift made history as the youngest solo artist to ever win Album of the Year. She was only 20 years old when she received the award in 2010 for her popular album, Fearless.

Taylor Swift made Grammy history in 2024 by becoming the first woman to win Album of the Year four times. She received the award for her albums Fearless, 1989, Folklore, and Midnights.

Taylor Swift’s album, Lover, quickly became a success, selling over a million copies in the US within just a few months of its release, as reported by Chart Data. It was the first album of 2019 to achieve this level of sales so rapidly.

Taylor Swift made history at the 2019 American Music Awards by winning more awards than any other artist, breaking Michael Jackson’s previous record.

When Taylor was growing up, she dreamed of becoming a stockbroker, following in her father’s footsteps. However, she discovered her passion for music and eventually moved with her family from Pennsylvania to Tennessee to pursue it.

She started playing guitar when she was about 12 years old, picking it up after a computer technician showed her a few basic chords. Inspired, she soon wrote her first song, called “Lucky You.”

Taylor Swift is a big fan of Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She told Entertainment Weekly that Waller-Bridge’s show, Fleabag, is brilliant because it’s funny, surprising, and emotionally moving all at once. Interestingly, Taylor later appeared on Saturday Night Live during an episode hosted by the Fleabag star!

In 2009, Taylor Swift did something unusual for a guest on Saturday Night Live: she wrote her own monologue. Her performance, including the song “Monologue Song (La La La),” clearly impressed the show’s team.

Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been best friends ever since they both dated members of the Jonas Brothers. Back in 2008, Taylor dated Joe Jonas while Selena was with his brother, Nick. They bonded quickly and have stayed close ever since—Selena even cheered Taylor on when she returned to Saturday Night Live in 2021 to perform her 10-minute version of “All Too Well.” Taylor is so close to Selena that she’s offered to be a flower girl at her wedding to Benny Blanco.

Do you remember Abigail, the redhead Taylor Swift mentions in her song “Fifteen”? They’re still close friends! Abigail Anderson was a bridesmaid at her wedding back in 2017.

She’s a godmother to several children of her close friends, including Jaime King’s son, Leo Thames, and the daughters of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds – James, Inez, and Betty.

Taylor Swift has indicated she might not ever perform her song “Soon You’ll Get Better,” which she wrote about her mother’s fight with cancer. She explained in an August 2019 interview with SiriusXM that the song was difficult to create, sing, and even listen to, but acknowledged that music can often be emotionally challenging.

Okay, so I just found out the most fascinating thing about Taylor! Apparently, she doesn’t even have X (formerly Twitter) on her phone! Can you believe it? She told Billboard that she gets totally overwhelmed when she opens it, so she just deletes the app! She said she doesn’t need all that noise – she follows politics, which is important, but she doesn’t care about celebrity gossip or what shoes people are wearing. She’s so smart – she says her brain just can’t handle all that information, and honestly, same! It’s amazing to me that she manages to stay so grounded with everything going on. It just makes me admire her even more!

Taylor Swift has never tried therapy, preferring to confide in her mother. In a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, she explained that her mother has witnessed her entire life, making it easier to share everything with her. She joked that it would take a long time for anyone else to get up to speed on the past 29 years of her life.

In an interview, she revealed her favorite lyrics from her album Lover are: “Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? / With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.”

Taylor Swift has officially become a billionaire! Bloomberg reported in October 2024 that the success of her Eras Tour, following years of breaking records in the music industry, pushed her net worth over the billion-dollar mark.

Taylor Swift was deeply moved by the 2019 Netflix film Someone Great. She described crying while watching it and then having vivid dreams for about a week where she was living through the movie’s events. These experiences sparked lyrical ideas based on the characters’ relationships. She shared this with Elvis Duran, explaining that she then collaborated with Jack Antonoff in the studio, ultimately resulting in her song, “Death By a Thousand Cuts.”

She consistently places her most heartfelt songs – like “All Too Well” and “The Archer” – as the fifth track on her albums, making it a signature spot for her ballads.

Taylor Swift has stopped trying to avoid the paparazzi. Since 2023, she’s openly supported her fiancé, Travis Kelce, by attending his NFL games. In an interview with Time magazine, she explained that being in a public relationship means they can freely support each other without hiding. She said they don’t worry about being seen together and are simply proud of one another, unlike couples who go to great lengths to keep their relationship secret.

When Taylor and Travis announced their engagement on Instagram in August 2025, it became a historic moment for the platform. According to Billboard, using data from Meta, the post received over a million shares.

30. The engagement also helped inspire Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 word of the year, “Parasocial.”

Taylor achieved a record-breaking milestone when her album, The Life of a Showgirl, was released in October 2025. The Associated Press reported that it sold 2.7 million copies on its first day.

32. Oh, and the album went on to sell 4 million copies in its first week alone.

In her Disney+ documentary, The End of an Era, Taylor Swift explained that two main things inspired The Eras Tour: losing control of the rights to her older songs and the COVID-19 pandemic.

After a lengthy legal fight, Taylor announced in May 2025 that she had regained ownership of the original recordings of her first six albums.

Taylor Swift revealed on The Stephen Colbert Show on December 10th that she used the money earned from her Eras Tour to regain ownership of her music, explaining that her fans made it possible.

To keep the surprise songs a secret from fans outside the venues, Taylor Swift and her band practiced them discreetly during the Eras Tour.

Okay, so I was already obsessed with Taylor, but then I found out something even more amazing! Her documentary revealed that after every single city on the Eras Tour, she gave bonuses to her incredible crew! Like, seriously, she’s not just a musical genius, she’s the most thoughtful person ever. It just proves how much she appreciates everyone who helps make her shows happen, and honestly, it makes me love her even more!

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2025-12-22 22:55