Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Is ‘On Its Way’ – Billboard

Surprise! Taylor Swift’s 1989 is the subsequent “Version”.

Swift let fly with the information that many had been ready for, that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was “on its way,” with a launch date of Oct. 27, she confirms on her social accounts.

Initially issued in 2014, 1989 is the album that “changed my life in countless ways,” continues Swift, including that “it fills me with such excitement to announce” her newest “Version.”

And there’s an added incentive to tune in, as if Swifties wanted any extra hype. “To be perfectly honest,” TayTay writes, “this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!”

The forthcoming LP is on the market to pre-order from Swift’s official web site in 4 special-edition deluxe CDs (“Crystal Skies Blue,” “Rose Garden Pink,” “Aquamarine Green” and “Sunrise Boulevard Yellow”), and also will be issued in “Crystal Skies Blue” vinyl and cassette codecs.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) can be Swift’s fourth “Version,” since saying her re-recording mission in 2019. The earlier three all logged time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) with two weeks in 2021, Red (Taylor’s Version) with one week in 2021, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) with two weeks in 2023. Also, all three have led the Official U.Ok. Albums Chart.

With 21 whole “From The Vault” songs throughout these three Version albums, Swift has scored a number of high 10 hits on the Hot 100, earned traction at pop radio, and even scored a No. 1, with the 10-minute model of “All Too Well”.

The authentic recording of 1989 spent a whopping 11 weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 following its launch.

1989 had been a scorching choose for Version No. 4, seeing as Swift has already shared a small handful of tracks from it, together with “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version),” following the music’s viral activate TikTook, in November 2021, then “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” which turned up within the trailer for the Amazon Prime collection The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Swift appears to set and smash data with relative ease. This 12 months, the pop celebrity collected her twelfth U.S. No. 1 with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), surpassing Barbra Streisand for essentially the most amongst ladies, whereas she additionally changing into the primary residing artist in almost 60 years with 4 concurrent albums within the high 10, and nailing 11 albums on all the 200-position chart for the primary time.

In the U.Ok., she’s the primary and solely artist this century to build up 10 No. 1 albums.

And because the on-sale for her blockbuster The Eras Tour established new marks in Australia, she just lately swamped the ARIA Albums Chart, securing the highest 5 positions in a single body, an all-time report. She then changed herself at No. 1 on the tally, changing into the primary artist to take action because the ARIA Charts started in 1983.

Confirmation of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) early Thursday ET coincided with the conclusion of Swift’s final night time at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the place she’s performed a complete of six nights, wrapping the primary U.S. leg of The Eras Tour.

Beginning Aug. 24, she’ll take the trek world with a slew of worldwide dates in Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe earlier than returning to the states in 2024 for a second lap of North America.