Taylor Swift's ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ debuts with 4.002M on BB200

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All of this for an album that even a lot of her fans don't like and has no cultural impact outside her stan universe. Adele's record was so much more meaningful as almost all of those copies were a one-copy-per-person idea. And it was put out before vinyl collecting and variants were a thing. Yes, she didn't allow streaming of that album initially which helped but in terms of unique listeners and pure album sales, she really did something major. But this? This is maybe just over 1 million fans buying the album a few times each, along with streaming the hell out of it. There needs to be rules introduced to stop multiple copies counting towards charts if they're from the same transaction and stop every track charting. This s**t's been out of hand for the last few years now and when it happens with Taylor albums its 10x worse as they'll repeatedly continue to chart for months on end and not allow room for anyone else to break through.