Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200

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).

Showgirl leads a sleepy top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, where no albums debut in the region. Within the top 10, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving hits a new peak, rising 7-6 in its third week on the chart. It’s only the third album this year to debut in the top 10 and climb to a new high after its opening week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new, Oct. 25, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 338,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 236,000 (down 55%, equaling 307.59 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it holds at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a second week), album sales comprise 101,000 (down 97% — it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a second week) and TEA units comprise 1,000. It its first week, none of the album’s tracks were available to purchase individually; in its second week, its promoted single, and Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “The Fate of Ophelia” was.

The rest of the top five on the Billboard 200 are all non-moving former No. 1s. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is No. 2 (104,000 equivalent album units, up 9%); Wallen’s I’m the Problem is No. 3 (79,000, down 4%); Cardi B’s AM I THE DRAMA? is No. 4 (50,000, down 21%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend is No. 5 (45,000, down 10%).

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving hits a new high, rising 7-6 in its third week on the list (36,000 equivalent album units earned, up 5%). The set debuted at No. 8 two weeks ago. It’s only the third album to debut in the top 10 this year and rise to a new peak in a later week, following the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack (No. 8 debut, ultimately reaching No. 1 in its 12th week) and Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (No. 2 debut; No. 1 a week later).

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls 6-7 on the latest Billboard 200 (33,000 equivalent album units, down 19%) while SZA’s former leader SOS rises 9-8 (32,000, up 1%), Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid slips 8-9 (nearly 32,000, down 1%), and Wallen’s former No. 1 One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 10 (31,000, down 1%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.