Taylor Swift just made history after breaking multiple streaming records on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon with her latest album The Life Of A Showgirl.
The American pop icon, 35, released her new project on Friday with a fresh set of bouncy songs about love, sex, and success, leaving fans to anaylse every lyric.
On Spotify and Apple Music, the album became the most streamed in one day in 2025, and on Amazon Music it broke an all-time record – surpassing her own previous album The Tortured Poets Department.
As the new album holds the record for Apple Music’s biggest album of 2025 by first-day streams worldwide, her single The Fate of Ophelia reached Apple Music’s biggest song of 2025 by first-day streams globally.
The Cruel Summer hitmaker has also climbed up iTunes’ charts, earning the spot of biggest album of 2025, also based on first-day sales worldwide.
To celebrate her new album, Apple Music has compiled three Taylor Swift playlists that embody each phase— with highlights from her 12th full-length and the rest of her catalogue that express the feelings experienced before, during, and after a performance.
Taylor Swift just made history after breaking multiple streaming records on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon with her latest album The Life Of A Showgirl
The American pop icon, 35, released her new project on Friday with a fresh set of bouncy songs about love, sex, and success, leaving fans to anaylse every lyric
Meanwhile Amazon Music released special track-by-track experience for the new album, which includes Taylor’s new commentary interspersed throughout the album.
Fans can listen to new bangers with the commentary from the artist about songs like The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor, Ruin The Friendship, and more — including Amazon Music exclusive commentary on the song ‘Father Figure’.
She discusses how The Fate of Ophelia blends Shakespearean storytelling with modern themes and references.
For Elizabeth Taylor, the songstress speaks about the Hollywood icon as a role model and draws parallels to her own experiences in the spotlight.
Eldest Daughter explores the contrast between public and private life in modern culture.
The album concludes with The Life of a Showgirl – featuring Sabrina Carpenter – which she describes as an ode to show business, mentioning that it includes actual crowd noise from her last Eras Tour show in Vancouver.
While exclusively discussing the song Father Figure on Amazon Music, the Blank Space singer explained: ‘Lyrically, I had such a blast writing this record because each song is like its own choose your own adventure.
‘Each song feels like an era of its own. It’s just a very dramatic, sweeping, epic record full of 12 songs, but each one really packs a punch.
On Spotify and Apple Music, the album became the most streamed in one day in 2025, and on Amazon Music it broke an all-time record – surpassing her own previous album The Tortured Poets Department
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‘And each one is really its own kind of movie. But the ‘Father Figure’ lyrics are my favorite.’
The Pennsylvania-born musician continued: ‘I remember writing the lyrics, sitting there being like [laughs to herself]. It’s the stuff that I’ve always wanted to say.
‘The first line of the second verse is my favorite line in terms of a visual. You think about what it means, and then you realize it’s just a very descriptive way to say something, and I love that line.’
‘I also love the key change chorus lyrics. It was a blast to write. I love stepping into a character like that.’
Taylor reunited with Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback for her 12th studio album, and their influence is clear in the driving beats and catchy hooks.
‘I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right,’ the 35-year-old artist posted on Instagram.
While the album still features plenty of introspection, it reveals a lighter, joyful Taylor in love with her NFL Super Bowl champion fiance Travis Kelce, happy to have bought back her music catalog and proud of her record-shattering Eras Tour.
‘I just want you, have a couple kids, got the whole block looking like you… Got me dreaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop,’ she sings on the dreamy Wish List.
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‘I used to have this dark fear that if I ever were truly, like, happy and…nurtured by a relationship — what happens if the writing just dries up?’, the music legend told BBC Radio 1.
‘And it turns out that’s not the case at all.’
Elated fans worldwide snapped up tickets to special ‘release party’ screenings in movie theaters – including the premiere of the video for lead single The Fate of Ophelia.
Showgirl represents a shift from the folksy pandemic-era Folklore and Evermore in 2020, the pensive Midnights in 2022 and the introspective Tortured Poets last year.
Fans are also musing that Actually Romantic is a diss track referring to a rumored feud with pop singer Charli XCX.
Aside from the Ophelia video, the weekend screenings feature behind-the-scenes footage and lyric videos.
The one-off cinematic event is estimated to gross $30-50 million, according to film industry website Deadline.
The 12th studio album marks a major milestone for the songwriter: her first as an engaged woman, following Kelce’s romantic, garden proposal in August 2025.
The record marks a major milestone for Taylor: her first as an engaged woman, following Travis Kelceìs proposal in August 2025 (pictured together)
In August, the NFL star teased he couldn’t stop ‘listening to this album’ and had ‘been dancing throughout the house’ to it (Travis and Taylor pictured together)
Within minutes, Swifties were dissecting every verse, from the scathing to the swoon-worthy, to decode if she was singing about her fiancé or rumored industry rivals like Charli XCX (seen together in 2014 at iHeart Radio in New York)
It also ushers in a bold new era for the 14-time Grammy winner, who ditched her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff for the first time in over a decade.
Alongside the music, the Lover hitmaker unveiled a daring new visual aesthetic, embodying a sultry Vegas showgirl for the album’s imagery.
The title itself, she revealed, was inspired by her days juggling her record-breaking Eras Tour, which spanned 21 months, and late-night studio sessions in Sweden.
‘I would do like three shows in a row, have three days off, fly to Sweden, go back to tour — I was physically exhausted but so mentally stimulated,’ Swift recalled on her husband-to-be’s New Heights Podcast over the summer. ‘I was just so excited to be creating.’
In August, Kelce teased to his listeners that he couldn’t stop ‘listening to this album’ and had ‘been dancing throughout the house’ to it.
‘I know she mentioned that it’s gonna be a lot more pop beats, but it’s just still so poetic in her melodies and her references and stuff,’ he assured Swifties. ‘It’s just so much fun to listen to.’
He also gushed his favorite track was Opalite.
Last month, the artist announced she was having a theatrical release party to celebrate her record, which played across 540 AMC theaters over the past weekend.
Fans saw the exclusive world premiere of the Fate of Ophelia music video, plus behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos and personal insights from Swift herself.
The special theatrical release is slated to be 89 minutes long.
It is expected to rake in around $30-$50million, per Deadline – and presale tickets reached $15 million over the span of 24 hours since the event’s announcement.
Ticket prices sat at $12 – which was decided by the award-winning performer herself.