Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 25), with 338,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Oct. 16, according to Luminate. That’s down 92% compared to the album’s modern-era-record debut with 4.002 million units a week ago.

Showgirl’s second week is the fifth-largest week of 2025 for any album. Further, it’s the largest second week for an album since Swift’s last project, The Tortured Poets Department, earned 439,000 in its sophomore frame (May 11, 2024, chart).

Showgirl is only the third album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2025, following Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (its first eight) and Playboi Carti’s MUSIC (two).

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