Fastest-selling vinyl album (USA)

- Who
- The Life of a Showgirl, by Taylor Swift
- What
- 1,334,000 unit(s) sold
- Where
- United States
- When
- 18 October 2025
The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift (USA) is the fastest-selling vinyl album on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the Luminate era (since 1991) and the first album to sell 1 million copies on vinyl in a single week. On the chart dated 18 October 2025, Swift’s 12th original studio album debuted at No.1 with a record-obliterating 4.002 million equivalent album units, of which 1.334 million were copies of the album sold on vinyl in its first week of release.
Incredibly, Swift owns all five of the fastest-selling vinyl albums in the USA, with The Life of a Showgirl followed by The Tortured Poets Department (859,000 in 2024), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (693,000 in 2023), Midnights (575,000 in 2022) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (268,000 in 2023).