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Taylor Swift achieves her 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated October 18 in record-breaking fashion with the debut of The Life of a Showgirl.
Swift breaks out of a tie with Drake and JAY-Z for the most No. 1 albums among soloists and becomes the sole act with the second-most No. 1s.
Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more, dating to when the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956.
All 15 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and rerecorded projects from 2008’s Fearless through The Life of a Showgirl have debuted at No. 1.
The Life of a Showgirl debuts with 4.002 million equivalent album units which include pure album sales and streaming activity, earned in the United States in the week ending Oct. 9, following its Oct. 3 release.
Of that sum, pure album sales total 3,479,500.
