{"id":475141,"date":"2025-10-05T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:10:11","slug":"taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-sales-new-acoustic-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475141\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift &#8216;The Life Of A Showgirl&#8217; Album Sales; New Acoustic Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taylor-swift\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taylor-swift\" data-tag=\"taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s <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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> has clinched the second spot in largest domestic first-day album sales in modern history, with an opening frame of 2.7 million physical and digital copies sold. It\u2019s the singer-songwriter\u2019s biggest week ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-first-day-sales-debut-week-1236082178\/?taid=68e19701c070de0001804142&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>, which cited data tracking firm Luminate for its figures, that number is bested only by Adele\u2019s 25, which sold 3.378 million in traditional album sales in the same amount of time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 12th studio album also sets a record for most vinyl album copies sold in a single week, with 1.2 million. The last record, set by Swift in 2024 with the debut of The Tortured Poets Department, sold 859,000 copies on vinyl in the same frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to the milestone, Swift announced today the addition of eight bonus acoustic tracks that will be spread out over four limited CD releases, which have been added to her website for the next 24 hours while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFile this under \u2018save your best for the finale\u2019\u2026 I think my favorite moments from the tour were the acoustic surprises. So I went back into the studio with Max and Shellback to record acoustic\/unplugged versions of a few of the Showgirl songs with brand new vocals and production! Cannot WAIT for you to hear,\u201d the 14-time Grammy winner wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn The Life of a Showgirl (Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version) CD will be: \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia (Alone In My Tower Acoustic Version\u201d and \u201cEldest Daughter (Now You\u2019re Home Acoustic Version).\u201d On The Life of a Showgirl (Dressing Room Rehearsal Version) CD will be \u201cWi$h Li$t (Settled Down Acoustic Version)\u201d and \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl (Dressing Room Rehearsal Acoustic Version).\u201d The Life of a Showgirl (Life Is A Song Acoustic Version) CD will include: \u201cOpalite (Life Is A Song Acoustic Version)\u201d and \u201cRuin the Friendship (My Advice Version).\u201d Finally, The Life of a Showgirl (So Glamorous Cabaret Version) CD will feature: \u201cElizabeth Taylor (So Glamorous Cabaret Version)\u201d and \u201cElizabeth Taylor (Original Songwriting Voice Memo).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2018s The Life of a Showgirl has clinched the second spot in largest domestic first-day album sales&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,8733,121750,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-475141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-taylor-swift","11":"tag-the-life-of-a-showgirl","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115319840694858141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}