{"id":110302,"date":"2025-10-09T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:50:12","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-breaks-world-records-within-24-hours-of-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110302\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s The Life of a Showgirl breaks world records within 24 hours of release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift has done it once again, smashing records within hours of the release of her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n<p>The US singer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2024\/12\/13-reasons-why-we-made-taylor-swift-a-guinness-world-records-icon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guinness World Records ICON<\/a> dropped her latest musical offering on Friday 3 October, and by the end of the day, its lead single \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d had broken two world records.<\/p>\n<p>The song logged 30,987,370 filtered streams on Spotify on its first day, becoming the <strong>most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours<\/strong> and the <strong>most streamed track on Spotify in the first 24 hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPeHAWsjmWK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN02niAXMM-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Oh, and that episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2025\/8\/taylor-swift-earns-podcast-record-with-appearance-on-boyfriend-travis-kelces-new-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also broke a record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It earned the <strong>most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube<\/strong> with a total of 1.3 million on 13 August.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Taylor is no stranger to record breaking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW NEWS \u2026 we\u2019re officially Guinness World Record holders \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IUqHvLxGG6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/IUqHvLxGG6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Heights (@newheightshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newheightshow\/status\/1960351203155726715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She smashes them so often that it\u2019s almost impossible to keep up with.<\/p>\n<p>To name but a few, her Eras Tour was the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2023\/12\/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-breaks-record-as-highest-grossing-music-tour-ever-762285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest-grossing music tour<\/a><\/strong> of all time, she\u2019s the <strong>most streamed female act in Spotify<\/strong>, she holds the title for <strong>most Billboard Music Awards won<\/strong> with 49 and she\u2019s earned the <strong>most Album of the Year awards won at the Grammys by a vocalist<\/strong> thanks to Midnights, folklore, 1989, and Fearless.<\/p>\n<p>Header image: Paul Marriott\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has done it once again, smashing records within hours of the release of her 12th studio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,7787,19,17,68625,68626,337,973,68624,58048],"class_list":{"0":"post-110302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-guinness-world-records","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-most-streamed-track-on-spotify-in-24-hours","14":"tag-most-streamed-track-on-spotify-in-the-first-24-hours","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-taylor-swift","17":"tag-the-fate-of-ophelia","18":"tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}