Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl continues its chart-topping run, spending its first full month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album has now logged four consecutive weeks at the top, according to Luminate, earning 146,000 equivalent album units in the United States for the week ending Oct. 30, a 25 percent decline from the previous week.
The Life of a Showgirl becomes only the second album in 2025 to spend its first month at No. 1, following Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, which led for eight weeks at the start of its run and totaled twelve weeks at the summit overall. Swift’s previous album, The Tortured Poets Department, spent its first twelve weeks at No. 1 in 2024 and held the position for seventeen weeks in total.
With The Life of a Showgirl now earning a fourth week at No. 1, Swift extends her record as the solo artist with the most weeks at the top of the Billboard 200, now totaling 90 career weeks at No. 1. Elvis Presley ranks second among solo acts with 67 weeks. Among all artists, only The Beatles have achieved more No. 1 albums, with nineteen, and more total weeks at No. 1, with 132.
Of the 146,000 equivalent album units earned this week, streaming accounts for 121,000 units, equal to 157.82 million on-demand streams, keeping the album at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart for a fourth week. Album sales contributed 22,000 units, dropping from first to third on Top Album Sales, while track-equivalent units added 3,000, a 411 percent increase from the previous week.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack remains steady at No. 2 with 84,000 equivalent album units, down 12 percent, while Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem stays at No. 3 with 76,000, down 8 percent.
New entries also make an impact in this week’s top ten. Daniel Caesar earns his first-ever top ten appearance as Son of Spergy debuts at No. 4 with 43,000 equivalent album units, marking his strongest week yet. Of that total, streaming accounts for 26,000 units, equal to 34.11 million on-demand streams, while album sales add 17,000, his best sales week to date. The album also enters at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums and No. 4 on Top Album Sales.
Additional new releases from Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato also debut within the top ten, rounding out another competitive week on the Billboard 200.
