Overview
- The Life of a Showgirl topped IFPI’s 2025 Global Album, Global Album Sales, Paid Downloads and Global Vinyl Album charts.
- IFPI also ranked Swift the 2025 Global Artist of the Year—her sixth overall and fourth consecutive—based on worldwide streaming, downloads and physical sales across her entire catalog, noting she now matches all other winners combined over the past decade.
- Billboard and Luminate reported a record 4.002 million equivalent units in the album’s first week, with 12 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
- Stray Kids placed No. 2 and Drake No. 3 on IFPI’s 2025 Global Artist Chart, highlighting intensifying international competition.
- On IFPI’s 2025 albums list, Morgan Wallen ranked No. 2 and Netflix’s Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack was No. 3, while Bruno Mars and Rosé’s APT was named the year’s top global single.