'The Life of a Showgirl' officially breaks modern-era single-week album sales record

[HBDYWM Stan 762]

56 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

That was a decade ago, and the way music is consumed has changed. Today's Taylor could sell 10M copies in 2015.

Now this is some cult level delusion.

[HBDYWM Stan 762]

45 minutes ago, JazmineRice said:

There were at least 32 physical and digital variants of Adele's album 25 released. This includes 27 physical formats (16 CD versions, 8 vinyl versions, 2 deluxe CDs with a clothing item, and 1 cassette) and 5 digital download editions. 

Physical variants: 27 in total 

CD: 16 versions 

Vinyl: 8 versions 

Deluxe CD: 2 versions, which included a clothing item 

Cassette: 1 version 

Digital variants: 5 digital download editions

Where did you source this from? Are you including a CD for the US and a CD for Germany as two different versions? If so, do the same with Taylor. I have seen sites posting these "variants" for Adele but they are counting the album in other countries as "another variant". That's not a variant. Show me some photos of these physical variants for Adele because I recall seeing her album and the target edition. 

[HBDYWM Stan 762]

2 hours ago, InsomniaMonster69 said:

For me Adele still holds the record. Adele sold that much with only 1 (one) variant! Taylor breaking this record is nothing impressive 

Adele had a song spend 10 weeks at number one and she sold 17M worldwide in 42 days. So time will tell the story for this album.

[LadyxGaGa 2,500]

1 hour ago, HBDYWM Stan said:

Adele had a song spend 10 weeks at number one and she sold 17M worldwide in 42 days. So time will tell the story for this album.

fingers crossed she gets a bit of that adele magic and sustains all the longevity for the rest of the year 

[salty like sodium 2,094]

6 hours ago, JazmineRice said:

There were at least 32 physical and digital variants of Adele's album 25 released. This includes 27 physical formats (16 CD versions, 8 vinyl versions, 2 deluxe CDs with a clothing item, and 1 cassette) and 5 digital download editions. 

Physical variants: 27 in total 

CD: 16 versions 

Vinyl: 8 versions 

Deluxe CD: 2 versions, which included a clothing item 

Cassette: 1 version 

Digital variants: 5 digital download editions

that's such a stretch ... if you look at discogs you'll see these are all just regional variants or bootlegs but none of this comes close to what taylor does with alternate artwork, additional songs, etc.

from memory 25 had an album and a deluxe at target with bonus tracks, in terms of contents those are the only two versions that existed.

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 26,364]

10 hours ago, InsomniaMonster69 said:

For me Adele still holds the record. Adele sold that much with only 1 (one) variant! Taylor breaking this record is nothing impressive 

The delusion 

I don’t even like Taylor’s music but please 

No matter how many variants you release, if your album doesn’t sell, it just doesn’t sell and vice versa

[River 118,581]

On 10/8/2025 at 11:23 PM, andy232000 said:

Completely horrible news and even more now that Billboard and luminate seem to have revealed that Taylor’s organic success is actually in the 500k-800k figures, but all of her fans bought 1-2 copies of each thing she put out. It’s such a misleading accomplishment and a totally transactional record breakage 

So even less than 1 million.. 

Where did u read that?

[nATAH 51,214]

10 hours ago, JazmineRice said:

There were at least 32 physical and digital variants of Adele's album 25 released. This includes 27 physical formats (16 CD versions, 8 vinyl versions, 2 deluxe CDs with a clothing item, and 1 cassette) and 5 digital download editions. 

Physical variants: 27 in total 

CD: 16 versions 

Vinyl: 8 versions 

Deluxe CD: 2 versions, which included a clothing item 

Cassette: 1 version 

Digital variants: 5 digital download editions

regional variants are not the same as cosmetic and tracklist variants

adele had the standard, target deluxe, japanese edition (every album does) and a slipcase/digipak version

no coloured vinyls, no alternate album covers and the deluxe CD versions don't include clothing

what's your source for this? what are these 16 different CD versions? what makes them different? do they have one exclusive track each?

Edited Saturday at 07:17 AM by nATAH

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,300]

I personally can’t wait for her to release new variants that come with stool samples from each **** she took while making the record  

Life of a Shitgirl 4eva 

[insight 2,459]

16 hours ago, LadyxGaGa said:

YES YES YES 

 

i kno we all knew and speculated but having it be official is so nice to see 

 

the age of adele is over

 

the taylor of tomorrow is future 

the future feels bland 

Edited Saturday at 11:15 AM by insight

[Arcanum 5,204]

Wow! 

Records are meant to be surpassed after all!

Talent, however, not.

[Sir 1,581]

I listened on fan account videos on youtube so it doesn’t count 

[PartySick 162,013]

Another record fraudulently broken 'cause organic success isn't enough for her

I challenge her to put out an album, have only a deluxe and nothing more, and put out these voice memos and things on the internet for free like they should be.

That would somewhat prove that she wants her fans to see her process and be a part of the story without having to pay for the album a hundred times.

[Agunimon 49]

I hope the girls are enjoying their big macs!!

[elsamars 3,343]

18 hours ago, HBDYWM Stan said:

Now this is some cult level delusion.