Taylor Swift's official best-selling albums on vinyl in the UK

Taylor Swift has already secured the biggest opening week for an album in 2025 with The Life of a Showgirl – amassing 304,000 chart units in just three days. She's also on course for a clean sweep of the Top 3 of the Official Singles Chart with songs from the LP: The Fate of Ophelia, Elizabeth Taylor and Opalite.

Taylor's ever loyal Swifties have always shown their devotion by collecting physical copies of her albums, including hundreds of thousands of vinyl in the UK alone. In fact, when the Official Vinyl Chart turned 10 earlier this year, Official Charts revealed that Taylor Swift is responsible for three of the four best-selling new vinyl releases of the last decade.

Can The Life Of A Showgirl overtake Sam Fender's People Watching to become the best-selling vinyl album of 2025? Both records will no doubt be on a fair few Christmas lists this year, so we'll have to wait and see.

As she heads for her 14th UK Number 1 album and yet another huge week of vinyl sales – here's a guide to Taylor Swift's best-selling vinyl releases of her career so far. 

First of all, let's take a closer look at the Top 5.

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5. Lover

Released: 2019
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK vinyl sales: 53,000

Taylor's seventh studio album was lighter and brighter than its predecessor, 2017's Reputation, but also incorporated a socially conscious streak – she advocated for LGBTQ+ rights on You Need to Calm Down and called out sexist double standards on The Man. Four years after its release, the fan favourite deep cut Cruel Summer became a huge UK Number 2 single after performances from The Eras Tour popped off on TikTok.

4. Folklore

Released: 2020
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK vinyl sales: 68,000

Recorded at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and surprise-released in July 2020, Taylor's eighth studio album was a hard left turn. Working with The National's Aaron Dessner (as well as her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff), she swapped pastel-coloured pop for shimmering indie-folk and embraced a new, more character-driven songwriting style. When it won Album of the Year at the following year's Grammys, Taylor became the first woman to collect this prestigious accolade for a third time.

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3. 1989 (Taylor's Version)

Released: 2023
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK vinyl sales: 107,000

The fourth and most recent of Taylor's re-recorded albums sold 62,000 vinyl LPs in its first week, becoming the UK's fastest-selling vinyl album of 2023. It also yielded her third UK Number 1 single in the form of Is It Over Now?, a synth-pop power ballad that didn't appear on the original 1989 LP. In the UK, it's the fourth best-selling new vinyl release of the last decade – only Harry Styles' 2022 album Harry's House prevents Taylor from sweeping the Top 3.

2. The Tortured Poets Department

Released: 2024
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK vinyl sales: 119,000

When it was released last April, The Tortured Poets Department earned the biggest first-week sales for any album in the UK for seven years with 270,000 chart units – a career-best that Taylor has already since smashed with The Life of a Showgirl. It's not just Taylor's second best-selling album on vinyl, but the second best-selling new vinyl release of the last decade. And it's also home to her fourth UK Number 1 single, the yearning Post Malone collab Fortnight.

1. Midnights

Released: 2022
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK vinyl sales: 132,000

Intimate and filled with glimmering synth-pop, Taylor's 10th studio set topped the Official Albums Chart for five non-consecutive weeks – and also spent seven non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. With 132,000 copies sold on wax to date, it's the best-selling new vinyl release of the last decade. The only question now is: Can The Life of a Showgirl do even better? Keep checking back on OfficialCharts.com to find out.