Taylor Swift's "Encore" Edition Pushes "The Life of a Showgirl" Back to No. 1

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Oct 4, 2026 2:17pm PT

Taylor Swift’s ‘Encore’ Edition Boosts ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Back to No. 1 for First Time Since January, Adding a 13th Week on Top

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Taylor Swift ‘s “ The Life of a Showgirl ” returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart after last vacating that position in January, thanks to the release of an expanded edition titled “ The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore ” with four new bonus tracks. This resumption at the top marks the 13th week the album has spent at No. 1, a lucky number Swift was surely looking to achieve all these months later.

The deluxe edition collected 173,000 equivalent units in its first week — or in the 52nd week for all versions of the album, depending on how you’re looking at it. Most of that was from streaming consumption of the four new tracks, since Swift has not put any physical copies of the expanded set up for sale yet, so sales have been limited to a digital download.

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_Originally reported by [Variety Music](https://variety.com/2026/music/news/taylor-swift-showgirl-encore-album-chart-number-one-1236898681/)._