Maybe Taylor Swift should have called her latest album “ Life of a Golden God” as the singer-songwriter has smashed the record for biggest sales week in the modern era and, in the process, achieved her 15th No. 1 album.

According to Billboard , Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl moved an astounding 4.002 million equivalent album units — which include both pure album sales and streaming activity — in its first seven days of release. Of that total, 3,479,500 came from pure sales, surpassing the previous record held by Adele, who sold 3.378 million copies of 25 in its first week back in November 2015. The only other album to have ever sold more than 2 million copies in a single week is NSYNC’s No Strings Attached , released in March 2000. (For context, the modern era o

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