Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Global Charts
Taylor Swift holds nine of the top 10 spots on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, all thanks to her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
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“The Fate of Ophelia” leads the lists, debuting as Swift’s sixth and fourth No. 1, respectively, dating to the charts’ starts in September 2020. On the Global 200, she passes Ariana Grande for the most leaders among women; on Global Excl. U.S., she ties Grande and BLACKPINK for the most among solo women or all-female groups.
HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s animated hit movie KPop Demon Hunters, is the only song in Swift’s way in the top 10 of the charts, at No. 5 on the Global 200 and No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., falling from No. 1 after 12 weeks atop each tally, beginning in July.
The Life of a Showgirl, released Oct. 3, charges in at No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200 chart with the biggest week for an album, by equivalent album units and album sales, since Luminate began collecting album data electronically in 1991. Swift earns her 15th No. 1 set, passing JAY-Z for the most among soloists in the chart’s history.
On the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100, “The Fate of Ophelia” opens at No. 1 as Swift’s 13th leader.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
“The Fate of Ophelia” rules the Global 200 with 216.9 million streams worldwide in the week ending Oct. 9. (It, like all tracks from The Life of a Showgirl, has no sales counting toward the chart, as they were not available for purchase individually during the album’s first week of release.)
The song scores the fifth-highest streaming week worldwide since the Global 200 began:
- 289.2 million, “Butter,” BTS, June 5, 2021
- 224.5 million, “APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, Nov. 2, 2024
- 217.1 million, “Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto, July 29, 2023
- 217.1 million, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus, Feb. 4, 2023
- 216.9 million, “The Fate of Ophelia,” Taylor Swift, Oct. 18, 2025
Here’s where all the songs from the 12-track The Life of a Showgirl rank on the Global 200:
- No. 1, “The Fate of Ophelia”
- No. 2, “Opalite”
- No. 3, “Elizabeth Taylor”
- No. 4, “Father Figure”
- No. 6, “Wood”
- No. 7, “Wi$h Li$t”
- No. 8, “The Life of a Showgirl,” feat. Sabrina Carpenter
- No. 9, “Cancelled!”
- No. 10, “Actually Romantic”
- No. 11, “Eldest Daughter”
- No. 12, “Ruin the Friendship”
- No. 13, “Honey”
“The Fate of Ophelia” tops Global Excl. U.S. with 125.3 million streams beyond the U.S.
Songs from The Life of a Showgirl shine in the spotlight on Global Excl. U.S. in this order:
- No. 1, “The Fate of Ophelia”
- No. 3, “Opalite”
- No. 4, “Elizabeth Taylor”
- No. 5, “Father Figure”
- No. 6, “The Life of a Showgirl,” feat. Sabrina Carpenter
- No. 7, “Cancelled!”
- No. 8, “Eldest Daughter”
- No. 9, “Wi$h Li$t”
- No. 10, “Wood”
- No. 11, “Actually Romantic”
- No. 12, “Ruin the Friendship”
- No. 14, “Honey”
Swift pushes her totals to 42 top 10s on the Global 200 and 29 on Global Excl. U.S. On the former, she passes Drake (37) for the most in the chart’s archives; on the latter, she bests Bad Bunny (24) for the record.
Plus, Swift ties her own mark for the most concurrent Global 200 top 10s, after she took nine of the top 10 on May 4, 2024, and Nov. 5, 2022, when her albums The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights made their chart starts, respectively. She breaks the record on Global Excl. U.S., surpassing the eight songs that she placed in the top 10 upon the chart arrival of Midnights.
Meanwhile, as featured on “The Life of a Showgirl,” Sabrina Carpenter adds her seventh top 10 on the Global 200 and sixth on Global Excl. U.S.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Oct. 18, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Oct. 14. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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