Taylor Swift Thanks ‘4 Million’ Fans After Breaking Major Record with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Taylor Swift is feeling truly grateful after her latest album The Life of a Showgirl surpassed yet another major milestone.

The “Opalite” singer, 35, took to Instagram on Oct. 13 to share a newly-released photo from The Life of a Showgirl photoshoot and expressed her gratitude to the fans and everyone who purchased the new album after it broke the record for the most albums sold in a week in the United States, per Billboard.

“I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week. I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energy into it,” she wrote in her caption. “Since then I’ve tried to meet and thank as many people as I could who have given me the chance to chase this insane dream.”

She then gushed about the “many people” that “showed up for me this week” amid her 12th album release and added “I have 4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was.”

“Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in The Life of a Showgirl,” she continued. “I’ll cherish this feeling forever. Just wow.”

Swift then concluded her post with “Thank you for the lovely bouquet,” which referenced lyrics from The Life of a Showgirl.

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‘The Life of a Showgirl’breaks album sales record held by Adele

Swift’s latest post about her record-breaking sales comes after Varietyreported on Oct. 8 that The Life of a Showgirl had already surpassed the record for album sales in a week at 3.5 million units.

The record was previously set by Adele‘s album 25, which sold around 3.4 million albums in a week back in December 2015.

Other records broken by Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Along with massive album sales in its first week, The Life of a Showgirl is also breaking records on the music charts as well.

The World Music Awards confirmed on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Oct. 12 that Swift is the first artist ever to have seven songs currently dominating on the United World Top 10 list. The organization revealed that the 60-year-record was previously held by The Beatles, “who had 6 simultaneous Top 10 hits on the chart ” back in 1964.

“Taylor has now a total of 43 United World Top 10 hits, tying Elvis Presley and the best-selling Japanese Girl Group of All Time, AKB 48,” the organization confirmed and noted that “Only Madonna has more No. 1 hits” than Swift at 47.

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