Most million-selling weeks on the US albums chart

Taylor Swift (USA) has generated eight million-selling weeks on the US Billboard 200 – one week for each of the eight albums that have logged seven-figure traditional (“pure”) sales in their first week of release. In chronological order, they are: Speak Now (1.047 million on 13 November 2010), Red (1.208 million on 10 November 2012), 1989 (1.287 million on 15 November 2014), reputation (1.216 on 2 December 2017), Midnights (1.140 million on 5 November 2022), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.359 million on 11 November 2023), The Tortured Poets Department (1.914 million on 4 May 2024) and The Life of a Showgirl (3.479 million on 18 October 2025).

There have been 27 million-selling weeks on the Billboard 200; Adele is the only act to do it more than once with one album (three weeks for 25 in 2015), while Backstreet Boys, Eminem and *NSYNC have all sold 1 million copies in a week twice, with two different albums.

Overall, The Life of a Showgirl stormed to No.1 on the Billboard 200 on 18 October 2025 with 4.002 million equivalent album units (including 522,600 streaming equivalent albums, equating to 680.9 million on-demand streams) – the biggest week since Luminate’s sales-tracking era began in 1991.

The Life of a Showgirl was also notable for being the first album to sell 1 million US copies on vinyl in a week (1.334 million).

Traditional sales include physical copies of the album on CD, vinyl and cassette and digital downloads, but not “equivalent album units”, which are primarily on-demand official streams.