Taylor Swift ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ variant (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott/TAS Rights Management)With every new release, Taylor Swift rewrites the record books, and according to Billboard, she’s poised to do again Friday with her new album The Life of a Showgirl. Largest streaming week for an album: Here, Taylor could break her own record, which she set last year with The Tortured Poets Department. However, that album had a lot more songs on it than Showgirl, which only has 12 — for now. Most albums to sell a million copies in a single week since 1991: As Billboard notes, since 1991, only 24 albums have sold more than a million copies in a single week. Most consecutive calendar years at #1: Taylor has had a #1 album every year for the past six years — from 2019 to 2024.