{"id":198172,"date":"2025-10-13T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198172\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:50:03","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-breaks-billboard-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198172\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;The Life Of A Showgirl&#8217; Breaks Billboard Chart Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnother \u201crecord\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>: Her new album <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-life-of-a-showgirl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-life-of-a-showgirl\" data-tag=\"the-life-of-a-showgirl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> has become the first album ever to place all of its songs uninterrupted from the No. 1 to No. 12 spots on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/billboard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billboard\" data-tag=\"billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>\u2018s Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAccording to Billboard, the chart dated October 18 is topped by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-fate-of-ophelia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-fate-of-ophelia\" data-tag=\"the-fate-of-ophelia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Fate of Ophelia<\/a>,\u201d with the next 11 spots taken by, in order, \u201cOpalite,\u201d \u201cElizabeth Taylor,\u201d \u201cFather Figure,\u201d \u201cWood,\u201d \u201cWi$h Li$t,\u201d \u201cActually Romantic,\u201d \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d feat. Sabrina Carpenter, \u201cEldest Daughter,\u201d \u201cCancelled!,\u201d \u201cRuin the Friendship\u201d and \u201cHoney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSwift previously had become the only artist ever to hold the Hot 100\u2019s entire top 10 with her 2022 release Midnights in November 2022, then topped that with 14 top positions from her 31-track The Tortured Poets Department in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d Swift has her 13th career Hot 100 No. 1, and her 69th top 10, the most among women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d has 92.5 million official U.S. streams, according to data tracker Luminate via Billboard. That\u2019s the most for a title in a single week since official streams became the metric\u2019s sole contributor to the Hot 100 in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe album pushed\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0from the top chart spot; that soundtrack dropped to No. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier today, Swift <a data-id=\"1236583394\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/taylor-swift-docuseries-concert-film-disney-plus-1236583394\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> two projects for Disney+: a full concert film, The\u00a0Eras Tour | The Final Show, as well as a six-episode docuseries on the tour, both arriving December 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another \u201crecord\u201d for Taylor Swift: Her new album The Life of a Showgirl has become the first album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18143,6491,96,10568,86252,34412,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-198172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-billboard","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-fate-of-ophelia","tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}