Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl breaks world records within 24 hours of release

Taylor Swift has done it once again, smashing records within hours of the release of her 12^th studio album The Life of a Showgirl.

The US singer and Guinness World Records ICON dropped her latest musical offering on Friday 3 October, and by the end of the day, its lead single “The Fate of Ophelia” had broken two world records.

The song logged 30,987,370 filtered streams on Spotify on its first day, becoming the most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours and the most streamed track on Spotify in the first 24 hours.

Both of these records already belonged to Taylor, who had claimed them on 19 April 2024 with her song “Fortnight”, a collaboration with Post Malone, from her previous studio album The Tortured Poets Department.

That song was streamed 25,204,472 times during its first day.

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This new album comes hot off the heels of Taylor’s engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce, which happened after she’d recorded an episode of his podcast New Heights to unveil the name and cover art of The Life of a Showgirl.

Oh, and that episode also broke a record.

It earned the most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube with a total of 1.3 million on 13 August.

Of course, Taylor is no stranger to record breaking.

She smashes them so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up with.

To name but a few, her Eras Tour was the highest-grossing music tour of all time, she’s the most streamed female act in Spotify, she holds the title for most Billboard Music Awards won with 49 and she’s earned the most Album of the Year awards won at the Grammys by a vocalist thanks to Midnights, folklore, 1989, and Fearless.

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