❤️‍🔥 The Swiftie Scoop: 12 Days of TS12

Reactions, Records and Recaps from TLOAS's Release!

Oct 15, 2025

Dear Reader,

“You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby”

Well, Taylor’s latest hit has been pretty hot ❤️‍🔥 12 days ago The Life of a Showgirl (TLOAS) dropped. And during its opening week it has absolutely dominated the charts and smashed records that many thought could never be broken. Plus, it’s just filled with bop after bop - I don’t know about you, but I’ve been listening to it on repeat since its release.

This newsletter covers my own reactions to the new album, some of the biggest records that TLOAS has broken, and recaps another exciting announcement from earlier this week in case you missed it!

In this newsletter you’ll find:

🎥 First Reaction to The Life of a Showgirl
🏆 Major Records Broken by TLOAS
🫶 “The End of an Era” and “The Final Show”

🎥 First Reaction to The Life of a Showgirl

My first listen to The Life of a Showgirl was not at all what I expected. I sat down at midnight, pressed play on “The Fate of Ophelia” and was immediately whisked away to a land of both fantasy and modern vibes. I’ve been so enjoying learning these new songs, bopping to banger after banger on long car journeys, and fathoming songs that have grown on me more and more since that first listen (“Father Figure” is currently blowing my mind).

The first two videos in my “Midnight Musings” series are now up on my YouTube channel, breaking down my initial reactions to the first two tracks of the album. I’d love to hear your own thoughts on these tracks! Stay tuned for the rest of the album as well - my reaction to “Opalite” is coming up next and is one of my top faves 😍

🏆 Major Records Broken by TLOAS

Taylor Swift is having the album rollout of her career! Here’s a roundup of some of the most jaw-dropping records TLOAS broke in its first week:

The Biggest Debut of all time! - TLOAS earned 4.002 million equivalent album units (beating Adele’s record of 3.482 million back in 2015). This record was thought to be nearly impossible to break, because in the age of streaming there’s much less incentive to buy physical records. So earning this number of album units is absolutely insane!
Top 12 Spots on the latest Billboard Hot 100 – The entirety of TLOAS took over the top spots of Billboard’s Hot 100. This is the third time Taylor’s held the top 10 spots on this chart (she held the top 14 for The Tortured Poets Department, and the top 10 for Midnights). She’s the only artist to ever do this!
The Largest Sales Week in the Modern Era – TLOAS sold 3,479,500 copies in pure album sales in its first week (including purchases of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassette tapes). That’s the single largest sales week for an album since 1991.
Taylor’s 15th No. 1 Album on the Billboard 200 – This is Taylor’s 15th No. 1
on the Billboard 200, making her second only to the Beatles who have 19.
Largest Streaming Week of 2025, 4th of All Time – TLOAS generated 680.90 million on-demand official streams in its first week. Taylor holds the overall record for the biggest streaming week ever with TTPD (with 891.37 million via 31 songs - TLOAS has 12 tracks)!
Most No. 1s on the Top Album Sales Chart – This is Taylor’s 16th No. 1
on the Top Album Sales, extending her record (Jay-Z is second on the list with 14).
Most No. 1s on the Vinyl Albums Chart – This is Taylor’s 14th No. 1
on Vinyl Albums, extending her record (the Beatles are tied for second with Metallica, Mac Miller and Jack White, all with 6).
“The Fate of Ophelia” is her 13th career No. 1 song – This gives Taylor Swift the most No. 1 songs of this decade.

*Stats come from Billboard’s substack, and Billboard articles (on the album debut, and occupying the top 10)

🫶 The End of an Era and The Final Show

If the album wasn’t enough, this week we got a huge announcement: “The End of an Era”, a 6-part docu-series will give a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of our beloved Eras Tour. The first two episodes of the docu-series will premiere on Disney+ on Dec. 12, and then two episodes will air weekly for the next two weeks.

On top of that, ALSO on Dec. 12, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour: The Final Show” will premiere on Disney+, showing a full concert film of her final stop on the Eras Tour in Swiftcouver (aka Vancouver) on Dec. 8, 2024. I remember watching the livestream of that final show (best way to finish out my birthday), and I cannot wait relive in with this concert film 🥹

Are you excited?! I’m already dreaming about watch parties, Eras Tour outfits and themed food. I can’t believe we’re getting both the documentary we’ve been hoping for AND the Eras Tour with TTPD’s era included before the end of the year. What a time to be a Swiftie 🫶

It’s been so fun to experience this record-breaking album release with you! I’m looking forward to sharing more reaction videos, digging more into this album, and of course for the Eras Tour docu-series and concert film coming up in December. So much to look forward to! Stay tuned for more updates and Swiftie inspo - until next time…

Keep it 💯 on the land, the sea, the sky,

Bekah

🎶 Can I Ask You a Question? 🎶

❤️‍🔥 What’s your favorite song from TLOAS so far? Has it changed since first listen?

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