Dorothea ❤️‍🔥

I had a marvelous time ruining everything😺😺

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now at https://t.co/bWaNOQ6OmT ❤️‍🔥

📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, @TheGNShow. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it’s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film. The Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music.

https://t.co/ZOi4zNuyTD

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Taylor Swift is #1 on the Year End Billboard 200 for the fifth time in her career:

2009: Fearless
2015: 1989
2018: reputation
2024: THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
2025: The Life Of A Showgirl

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Taylor Swift's 'The Life of A Showgirl' is ranked #1 on the Billboard 200 Year End 2025 albums chart.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Life of a Showgirl’ by Taylor Swift officially ranks at #1 on the 2025 Year-End Billboard 200 Albums chart.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift returns to #1 (+3) on the Global Spotify chart with 6.23 million streams.

It has now spent 63 days at #1.

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Taylor Swift was the most-streamed Female artist (second overall) on Spotify in 2025. #SpotifyWrapped

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift was the most-streamed song on Spotify globally on December 1st.

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Taylor Swift becomes the first artist to spend half a year at #1 on the Hot 100 in the 2020s decade (26 weeks).

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US Certifications (@RIAA): Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13), The Life Of A Showgirl 5x Platinum (5,000,000; album).

[PopCraze @popcrazee]

Taylor Swift (25) has surpassed Morgan Wallen (24) as the artist with the most weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 this decade.

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The Top 10 of this week’s Billboard Hot 100.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

“The Fate of Ophelia” by Taylor Swift spends a seventh week at #1 on the Hot 100.

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Taylor Swift extends her record as the soloist with the most cumulative weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 (93).

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Billboard Hot 100: #1(=) The Fate Of Ophelia, Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) [7 weeks]. *seventh week at #1*

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"The Fate Of Ophelia" now ties "Blank Space" as Taylor Swift's second longest running #1 hit on the Hot 100.

Only behind "Anti-Hero".

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Taylor Swift becomes the first artist in history to debut a song and album at #1 on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously and hold the spots for their first seven weeks.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift remains at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 7.14 million streams.

It has now spent 49 days at #1.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift officially hits #1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart.

It becomes her record-extending 14th #1 on the chart.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift remains at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 7.4 million streams.

It has now spent 43 days at #1.