Taylor Swift Spends More Weeks At No. 1 Than Most People Spend Combating Adulthood

KEY POINTS

•Taylor Swift's 12th album 'The Life of a Showgirl' spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2025.
•She reclaimed ownership of her masters in May 2025 by purchasing them back from Shamrock Capital, regaining full catalog control.
•Her re-recorded album projects, especially 'Fearless (Taylor's Version),' surpassed commercial expectations and outsold original releases upon debut.

Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' has clung to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for eight stubborn weeks, tying her 2019 album 'Lover' as her third-longest chart invasion, but still trailing the 17-week reign of 'The Tortured Poets Department'—which sounds like a dark poetry slam gone pop. Her 12th studio album shattered the record for biggest sales week and kept U.S. streams and buys humming well beyond two months after release. Swift, the undisputed queen of grinding, announced in May 2025 she bought back her own masters from Shamrock Capital, finally telling Scooter Braun to kindly take a hike. Meanwhile, 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' proved skeptics wrong by outselling the OG in its first week, turning 'Taylor's Version' from desperate re-recording into a business masterclass in diva revenge.