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4.002 million albums sold in first week

taylor's 15th no. 1 album on the billboard 200

most no. 1 albums from a soloist and second most no. 1 overall to the beatles

largest weekly pure sales AND equivalent album units since the current chart began in 1991

eighth taylor swift album to have sold over 1m copies in a single week (out of 27 overall instances in the current chart era)

largest sales week for a vinyl album in modern era

taylorswift: I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week. I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energy into it. Since then I’ve tried to meet and thank as many people as I could who have given me the chance to chase this insane dream. Here we are all these years later and a hundred times that many people showed up for me this week. I have 4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was. Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in The Life of a Showgirl. I’ll cherish this feeling forever. Just wow. Thank you for the lovely bouquet 💐