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For nearly a full decade, Adele has held the record for most first-week sales for an album. In December 2015, her grand comeback 25 sold 3.482 million equivalent album units. Few artists have come close to breaking the record. Now, Taylor Swift has broken it. According to Billboard, Swift has …

As with all things related to the launch of any Taylor Swift album, all the components for The Life of a Showgirl were meticulously worked out and in place starting last week, from teaser trailers to release-day events to talk-show appearances. And all went according to plan — except, say …

Taylor Swift made her highly publicized appearance on The Tonight Show on Monday night, sitting down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. “This was a surprise and a secret I was carrying around for a year,” she said of the album. “And …

Selena Gomez celebrated Taylor Swift‘s new album by posting a video and a series of photos of the pair at Gomez’s recent wedding to Benny Blanco. Gomez shared the behind-the-scene images on Instagram, beginning with a short video of the BFFs as Gomez got ready for the ceremony. “Are you …

Taylor Swift said she “welcomes the chaos” when it comes to people’s reactions to her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. “The rule of show business is if it’s the first week of my album release and you are saying either my name or my album title, you’re helping,” …

Taylor Swift has dropped the year’s biggest album with The Life of a Showgirl. It’s also the year’s most polarizing album — but how would it not be? Something about Taylor will always trigger those over-the-top love-or-hate reactions from people. “I have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness,” she sings …

When tens of millions of people around the world all stream the same album in the course of a few days, some of them are inevitably not going to like it. Such has been the case with Taylor Swift‘s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, and fair enough, as …

During an appearance on SiriusXM Hits 1, Taylor Swift opened up about playing the more explicit songs on The Life of a Showgirl for her mother. Based on her response, she must have queued up the clean version of “Wood.” “I think that she thinks that that song is about …

Taylor Swift has dropped some new versions of The Life of a Showgirl, this time she’s going unplugged with a few of the album’s songs. The acoustic tracks are available on four new CDs on the musician’s website for the next 24 hours “while supplies last,” she noted in a …

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl era is in full swing and to cap off the album’s stellar debut weekend, she’s released the music video for its first official single, “The Fate of Ophelia.” The video first premiered this weekend in The Official Release Party of a Showgirl, Swift’s …