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Taylor Swift Breaks Spotify Record with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Taylor Swift's 12th album, crafted with producers Max Martin and Shellback, breaks Spotify's pre-save record, surpassing her prior 2024 album's milestone, reflecting her ongoing streaming dominance.

  • Spotify announced on September 1 that Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl became the most pre-saved album Countdown Page on August 31st, 2025, ahead of its October 3 release.
  • Swift's recent streaming dominance shows she was Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2024 with over 26.6 billion global streams, surpassing her own record held by The Tortured Poets Department last year.
  • Swift reunited with producers Max Martin and Shellback, saying `One of the things about this record is, like, it's a record I made with my mentor Max Martin and Shellback`; the artwork shows her submerged in a jeweled costume symbolizing her post-show bathtub routine.
  • Recorded in Sweden between tour dates, the project focuses on Swift's inner life during The Eras Tour, and she confirmed there are no bonus tracks beyond the standard tracklist.
  • Her past chart feats suggest The Tortured Poets Department topped the Billboard 200 for 17 weeks and earned a seventh Grammy nomination, fueling sustained interest alongside record-breaking streaming of 300 million plays in one day and one billion in five days.
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Taylor Swift breaks Spotify record with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Her upcoming album hasn’t even been released and it is already breaking records.

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Swift broke her own record. Last year, she became the most-streamed musician on the streaming platform.

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NME broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
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