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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Taylor Swift Made So Much Money in The Life of a Showgirl’s First Week You’re Not Gonna Believe it · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, so we already knew.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift had a huge first week with the Life
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  Speaker 2: of a Showgirl sistany Tania m it sold more.
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  Speaker 3: Than what four million units in its debut, which is massive.
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  Speaker 4: An all time record for an album in the modern era.
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  Speaker 2: But we're now getting new data via Billboard that clarify
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  Speaker 2: is just how impresidented this first week of sales was
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  Speaker 2: you see that, Tania?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this one honestly blows my mind because the Life
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  Speaker 5: of a Show goal was responsible for more than one
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  Speaker 5: half of all current album sales that.
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  Speaker 3: Week, including one point four billion global streams.
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  Speaker 4: Which still isn't the most impressive part.
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  Speaker 2: Not even close. Seventy percent of Taylor's sales came from
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  Speaker 2: physical albums, CD's vinyls, completely unheard of this era, but
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  Speaker 2: Taylor herself sold about two thirds of those directly through
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  Speaker 2: her own online store at full price, making more money
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  Speaker 2: in one week than any recording artist in history. She
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  Speaker 2: made it one week, one hundred and thirty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That is wild, on top of the tour numbers week right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: rather not longer the Life of a Show grows out.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's direct from Hollywood,