Horizontal bar chart showing Taylor Swift’s first-week U.S. album totals, ranging from 40,000 for her self-titled album in 2006 to 4 million for The Life of a Showgirl in 2025. Other albums, in release order: Fearless, 592,000; Speak Now, 1 million; Red, 1.2 million; 1989, 1.3 million; Reputation, 1.2 million; Lover, 867,000; Folklore, 846,000; Evermore, 329,000; Midnights, 1.6 million; and The Tortured Poets Department, 2.6 million. Figures count album sales, plus streaming and track-sale equivalents for releases after 2014.