Taylor Swift did it again. Just as the industry believed that The Tortured Poets Department would be left unscathed, Swift came out swinging again with her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and almost took down Spotify in the process. Featuring a jaw-dropping 249.9 million streams on launch day, Swift has achieved the largest album launch of 2025 and reminded the music industry that her dominance is hardly over yet.
A Record-Breaking Opening
With The Life of a Showgirl, Swift now owns the top four biggest album debuts in Spotify history. Let that sink in:
- The Tortured Poets Department 314
- The Life of a Showgirl 249.9
- Midnights 185M
- 1989 (Taylor’s Version) 176M
Aidy is really just racing Swift at this point. Everyone else is battling for fifth place as Swift nonchalantly rewrites streaming history.
Twelve for Twelve
Every single song from The Life of a Showgirl has broken into the Global Spotify 12. In fact, Swift conquered the list as if it were a game and she was playing full out:
#1. The Fate of Ophelia 30.98M
#2. Elizabeth Taylor 23.97M
#3. Opalite 23.71M
#4. Father Figure 21.80M
#5. Eldest Daughter 19.96M
#6. Actually Romantic 19.39M
#7. Wood 19.01M
#8. CANCELLED! 18.83M
#9. Wi$h Li$t 18.80M
#10. Ruin The Friendship 18.75M
#11. The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) 18.73M
#12. Honey 15.99M
With a single stroke, Swift did not just dominate the list but filled it completely, an achievement so audacious it’s almost parody.
The Showstopper: “The Fate of Ophelia”
The crown jewel of Swift’s takeover is “The Fate of Ophelia,” which smashed into #1 globally with 30.98 million streams. It also debuted at #1 in the U.S. with 13.61 million streams, reminding us all that Taylor Swift isn’t just setting records, she’s obliterating them.
A Duet for the History Books
The biggest cultural moment of all came with Swift’s feature with Sabrina Carpenter. Their collaborative single, The Life of a Showgirl, went on to debut at #11 globally with 18.73 million streams an all-time record for the biggest all-female collaborative debut on Spotify. The track surpassed Swift’s own “Snow on the Beach” (15.03M) and “Florida!!!” (13.45M), and global hits such as Shakira and Karol G’s “TQG” (7.67M).
This is Carpenter’s first big streaming drop on the books, and it’s proof that all that rocket-ship ascension from Disney sweetheart to pop icon isn’t gonna slow down anytime soon. Swift didn’t simply drop a song, she handed Carpenter a slice of the streaming throne.
Dominating the U.S.
If global success wasn’t enough, Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl also out-streamed every song on the rest of the U.S. Spotify chart, achieving a simply eye-boggling 118.6 million streams within America. One woman, one album, more numbers than the rest of the chart achieved as a collective total.
