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Taylor Swift Makes History Again as The Life of a Showgirl Sweeps the Billboard Hot 100

When critics were calling her latest release “mid,” Taylor Swift turned the narrative on its head and the charts upside down.
Her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has pulled off a staggering feat: every track on the album has landed in the top 12 of the Billboard Hot 100, marking yet another jaw-dropping milestone in Swift’s career.
When the album was released earlier this month, sceptics dismissed it as overhyped. Fast-forward a week, and Taylor has once again dominated the entire chart, a clean sweep that reaffirms her unmatched influence in global pop music.
For context, the Billboard Hot 100 measures the most popular songs in the United States based on streaming, radio airplay, and digital sales. The higher the streams, sales, and plays, the higher a song climbs. And this week, Taylor Swift climbed all the way to the top and stayed there.
Leading the pack is “The Fate of Ophelia,” which debuts at No. 1 after racking up a massive 92.5 million U.S. streams in a single week, the highest one-week streaming figure since Billboard began tracking streaming-only performance in 2020.
This marks the third time in her career that Taylor has owned the entire upper section of the Hot 100. She first achieved the feat with Midnights in 2022, repeated it with The Tortured Poets Department in 2024, and now, with Showgirl, she’s outdone herself again, this time with every track charting in the top dozen.
Released on October 3, The Life of a Showgirl didn’t just dominate the singles chart it also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving Swift her 15th chart-topping album and pushing her past JAY-Z for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist.
The numbers are staggering:
- All 12 tracks occupy the top 12 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.
- “The Fate of Ophelia” debuts at No. 1 with 92.5M U.S. streams.
- 15 Billboard 200 No. 1 albums — a new solo artist record.
- 13 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles.
- 69 Top 10 entries — the most of any female artist in history.
Despite mixed critical reception, with some calling the album overly theatrical or lyrically indulgent, The Life of a Showgirl has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon. Fans have turned its release into a global event, complete with streaming parties, lyric analyses, and TikTok theories.
And in true Taylor fashion, she’s silenced every critic the way she knows best by breaking records. The Showgirl era now stands as her biggest streaming debut ever, shattering internal records at Republic Records and proving, once again, that no one in pop operates at her level.
In short, whether you love her, doubt her, or can’t escape her, Taylor Swift remains the show, and the show always goes on.
This week’s top 10 on the #Hot100 (chart dated Oct. 18, 2025). 📈✨
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— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) October 13, 2025
