{"id":920973,"date":"2026-10-05T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920973\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:00:11","slug":"taylor-swifts-encore-edition-boosts-showgirl-album-back-to-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920973\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s ‘Encore’ Edition Boosts ‘Showgirl’ Album Back to No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl<\/a>\u201d returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200<\/a> album chart after last vacating that position in January, thanks to the release of an expanded edition titled \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl: The Encore<\/a>\u201d with four new bonus tracks. This resumption at the top marks the 13th week the album has spent at No. 1, a lucky number Swift was surely looking to achieve all these months later.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deluxe edition collected 173,000 equivalent units in its first week \u2014 or in the 52nd week for all versions of the album, depending on how you\u2019re looking at it. Most of that was from streaming consumption of the four new tracks, since Swift has not put any physical copies of the expanded set up for sale yet, so sales have been limited to a digital download. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlbum sales accounted for 21,000 of the overall 173,000 total, with most of the rest coming from streaming, with SEA units adding up to 136,000 \u2014 that number representing 138.79 million on-demand official streams \u2014 according to Billboard<\/a> and Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s new single, \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d is also expected to bow at No. 1 on the singles chart, Billboard\u2019s Hot 100, but that chart\u2019s top 10 won\u2019t be released till Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe race to see who would come out on top among the week\u2019s two other top 10 album bows was a squeaker, separated by a few hundred units. Tinashe\u2019s \u201cPopstar\u201d enters at No. 6 with 35,500 equivalent album units. Kenny Chesney\u2019s \u201cSilver Sands Marina\u201d is right behind it at No. 7 with 35,000. Chesney\u2019s numbers for his new album ride the success of his \u201cCarry On\u201d single, which just became his record-extending 34th No. 1 song at country radio this past week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d last had the No. 1 spot for the chart week ending Jan. 10, 2026. At that time, it was enjoying its 12th (and, at that point, seemingly final?) non-consecutive week on top of the Billboard 200, having prevailed from its October 2025 release through much of the Christmas buying season. Even before it added a 13th week with this return, \u201cShowgirl\u201d already had her second-highest number of weeks at No. 1. Her record for that is held by \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department,\u201d which spent 17 weeks atop the chart. \u201c1989\u201d and \u201cFearless\u201d are tied in her catalog with 11 weeks at No. 1 each. <\/p>\n

\n\tConsumption for the expanded \u201cShowgirl\u201d was aided not just by the four new tracks but the release of a high-profile music video for \u201cPatient Zero,\u201d costarring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell, which premiered on the MTV Video Music Awards last Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week\u2019s No. 1, Miley\u2019s \u201cBass Persuades,\u201d drops out of the top 10 this week. How far out of the top 10 was not revealed, as Billboard and Luminate only release the chart\u2019s top 10 each Sunday and issue the rest of the top 200 albums in the days to follow. <\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the top 10 albums are Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl in Love\u201d at No. 2 (with 67,000 units), followed by long-players from Ella Langley at No. 3, Morgan Wallen at No. 4, Noah Kahan at No. 5 and Olivia Dean at No. 8. An earlier Kahan album, \u201cStick Season,\u201d is at No. 9 and marks him as the only artist at present with two records in this upper echelon, while Drake closes out the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2018s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[22187,49,48,75,341,7223,41060,316846],"class_list":["post-920973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billboard-200","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}