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Taylor Swift<\/a> has broken the first-week, equivalent-unit sales record long held by Adele<\/a> for her 2015 album 25<\/em><\/a>, making The Life of a Showgirl<\/em><\/a> the fastest-selling-and-streaming album of the modern era, Billboard<\/em> reports<\/a>. Since its release on Friday, October 3, Showgirl<\/em> has already hit 3.5 million equivalent unit sales\u2014some 20,000 more than 25<\/em> amassed in its first week\u2014according to initial reports from the data tracking firm Luminate. Adele still holds the record for actual albums sold, a metric that includes physical and digital sales but not streams; 25<\/em> racked up 3.378 million to The Life of a Showgirl\u2019s<\/em> 3.2 million. Swift, of course, still has two days of sales to go.<\/p>\n The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>\u2019s mammoth numbers include 1.2 million vinyl copies sold, a record of its own, surpassing the 859,000 tally achieved by The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/a>. Billboard and Luminate calculate equivalent unit sales by adding streaming figures\u2014in this case amounting to some 300,000 unit sales\u2014to the traditional sales figures. As is customary for Taylor Swift albums, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> was available from her webstore in multiple limited-edition and limited-time variants, encouraging superfans to buy multiple copies. Billboard<\/em> will announce the final sales figures on Sunday.<\/p>\n Read Pitchfork\u2019s track reviews of \u201cActually Romantic<\/a>\u201d and \u201cFather Figure<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n