What Chart Records Could Taylor Swift Break with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’?

Taylor Swift is officially back in album mode. On last week’s episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast, the superstar revealed her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, due out Oct. 3. Along with the announcement, she also dropped a few key details: the cover art, a concise 12-song tracklist (a sharp contrast to the 31-track “data dump” of The Tortured Poets Department), a guest feature from Sabrina Carpenter and the return of longtime producers/collaborators Max Martin and Shellback, who helped craft some of Swift’s biggest hits from Red, 1989 and reputation.

The rollout marks another fascinating chapter in Swift’s career, and has left fans curious about what to expect. In the podcast, though, she said “[The album is] a lot more upbeat, and it’s a lot more fun pop excitement. My main goals were melodies that were so infectious, you’re almost angry at it.” She added that all 12 songs are “bangers” — not unlike the past hits she made with the Swedish pop masterminds, such as “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space.”

“We’ve never actually made an album before where it was just the three of us, there’s no other collaborators,” she said. “It felt like catching lightning in a bottle. These guys, they’re just geniuses. Working with them again was absolutely incredible.”

One thing we know for certain is that Swift is in for a big chart week. She’s already rewritten the Billboard record books countless times, and each new release seems to add more milestones to her résumé.

With six weeks until Showgirl arrives, here’s a look at some of the biggest chart records Swift could break — in some cases against fellow superstars, and in others, against herself.