Taylor Swift is speaking out after setting a new record.
The 35-year-old “The Fate of Ophelia” superstar shared her thoughts after The Life of a Showgirl moved 4.002 million equivalent album units in its first week, officially breaking the record for largest weekly sums for an album by both equivalent album units and pure album sales, per Billboard.
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“I’ll never forget how excited I was in 2006 when my first album sold 40,000 copies in its first week,” she began in a message on Instagram.
“I was 16 and couldn’t even fathom that that many people would care enough about my music to invest their time and energy into it. Since then I’ve tried to meet and thank as many people as I could who have given me the chance to chase this insane dream. Here we are all these years later and a hundred times that many people showed up for me this week.”
“I have 4 million thank you’s I want to send to the fans, and 4 million reasons to feel even more proud of this album than I already was. Thank you for going out to celebrate this project in the movie theaters, investing in vinyl, streaming, watching the video, buying CDs, reading the poems I wrote inside the packaging, and immersing yourselves in The Life of a Showgirl. I’ll cherish this feeling forever. Just wow. Thank you for the lovely bouquet 💐,” she concluded.
Adele‘s 25 previously broke the record in December 2015.
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Source: justjared.com