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![“The Eras Residency” Wattpad fanfiction even even even even even more detailed and even even even even even longer accurate Prologue that I wrote everything exactly. Add every single even even even even even more detailed detail I wrote everything exactly from top to bottom. 100% accurate of my fanfiction. During the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble and the development of The Eras Residency, all 11 Taylors stayed in The Eras House. The Eras Residency is based on The Eras Tour (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The Eras Residency is taken place at Las Vegas, Nevada, United States at The Colosseum Theater at The Caesars Palace. The Eras Residency will feature every single song that all 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD) have sung individually before in all their original respective individual years prior to The Eras Residency and brand new songs exclusively self-written and self-produced by The Taylor Swift Ensemble for The Eras Residency. The Eras Residency will have no cancelations and no errors and no mention of performers forgetting words, off-key notes, dance moves, and instrumental parts and no mention of a nearly missing sound checks, rehearsals, performances, and concerts just like they did in all their original respective years. The Eras Residency will include The Starlights (the fearsome foursome not only do background vocals, they also have a choreography for each performance, making them both band members and dancers. Kamilah Marshall Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Melanie Nyema Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Eliotte Nicole Woodford Position: Background Vocalist. Jeslyn Gorman Position: Background Vocalist; Taylor Swift's backing vocalists and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing vocalists), The Agency (Amos J. Heller Bass Guitar, Vocals Paul Sidoti Guitar, Vocals Mike Meadows Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals David Cook Musical Director, Keyboard Matt Billingslea Drums Max Bernstein Guitar, Keyboard Karina DiPiano Keyboard; Taylor Swift's backing band and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing band), and backing dancers. All these three groups are not part of The Taylor Swift Ensemble despite participating in The Eras Residency. Swifties will come to see The Taylor Swift Ensemble wearing friendship bracelets and sing along and dance along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble, just like they did with Midnights herself, who performed all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then, in March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona-March 9, 2024 in Singapore and with TTPD herself, who performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), in May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia respectively in both respective versions of The Eras Tour. Consisting of 149 shows across five continents, the Eras Tour had a broad cultural and socioeconomic impact, becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first to earn over $2 billion in revenue. Midnights designated the tour as a retrospective tribute to all of her studio albums and their corresponding musical "eras". Running over 3.5 hours, the set list consisted of over 40 songs grouped into 10 acts that portrayed each album's mood and aesthetic. The show was revamped in May 2024 to incorporate her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights herself became TTPD. Critics praised The Eras Tour for its concept, production, aesthetics and immersive ambience, as well as Midnights and TTPD's vocals, stage presence, and versatile showmanship. The tour recorded unprecedented public demand, ticket sales and attendances, bolstering economies, businesses, and tourism worldwide, dominating social media and news cycles, and garnering tributes and accolades from governments and organizations. This also gave rise to multifarious issues: ticketing crashes that inspired a string of anti-scalping laws and price regulation policies; scrutiny of Ticketmaster for monopoly by US authorities; diplomatic tensions in Southeast Asia due to Singapore's exclusivity grant; poor venue management in Rio de Janeiro resulting in a death; a failed ISIS plot to attack the tour in Vienna; and a political scandal in the UK. TTPD disclosed and released various works throughout the tour: the re-recorded albums Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version); editions of Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department; the music videos of "Karma", "I Can See You", and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"; and "Cruel Summer" as a single. An accompanying concert film (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), documenting the Los Angeles shows, was released to theaters worldwide on October 13, 2023, in an uncommon distribution deal circumventing major film studios. Met with critical acclaim, the film became the highest-grossing concert film in history. On November 29, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour book was released. It spotlights the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour concert from start to finish. The hardcover book features over 500 images, including never-before-seen performance photos from every era as well as exclusive rehearsal photos and behind-the-scenes images of instruments, costumes, set pieces and designer sketches used throughout the tour. The book also includes personal reflections and notes written by TTPD herself about her experience on the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. On December 13, 2024 (Taylor Swift's 35th birthday), Taylor Nation (her in-house marketing and public relations company) launched Taylor Swift Eras Archives. The archives site features features eight videos of behind-the-scenes footage from several music videos over the last four years, including “Fortnight,” “Karma,” “I Can See You,” “Bejeweled,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Cardigan.” (The footage was originally shown during the Eras Tour pre-show right after the doors opened) and behind-the-scenes videos seen during the pre-show of the Eras Tour for fans who arrived when doors opened including, "Bejeweled," "Lover," "Cardigan," and "Fortnight." All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts were born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts are Sagittarius. All 11 Taylors are the same exact person: the real Taylor Alison Swift herself. All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (16-year old Debut, 18-year old Fearless, 20-year old Speak Now, 22-year old Red, 24-year old 1989, 27-year old Reputation, 29-year old Lover, 30-year old Folklore, 30-year old Evermore, 32-year old Midnights, and 34-year old TTPD) are all 5’9 1/4”. All 11 Taylors are the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years because they come from blue time travel Time Machine portals on April 19, 2025 and they never age at all. All 11 Taylors hadn't been together before in all their original respective individual years at all. Each concert of The Eras Residency will run four hours long. The Eras Residency will have no pre-recorded and no lip-syncing. The Taylor Swift Ensemble was officially formed on April 19, 2025, the same day as the first anniversary of the release of The Tortured Poets Department double studio album (both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology) by TTPD as all 11 Taylors appeared from blue time travel Time Machine portals that day (April 19, 2025). Promotion started on April 19, 2025. The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was formed on April 19, 2025 (the same day as the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble). All four friendships/relationships were formed when both The Taylor Swift Ensemble and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club were formed: Debtless (Debut and Fearless), 198nights (1989 and Midnights), Lovertation (Reputation and Lover), and Folkmore (Folklore and Evermore). All 11 Taylors learned singing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), dancing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), and instrumentals (except TTPD, who is a only non instrumentalist) during the training sessions from September 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts previously had rehearsals of The Eras Residency for two months from October 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025. Swiftmania phenomenon (which impacted seismic activities, tailgating, tourism, economy, universities, colleges, fashion etc) began on March 17, 2023 (the opening date of The Eras Tour) and ended on December 8, 2026 (the ending date of The Eras Residency). The Eras Residency's premiere will happen on December 8, 2025, a year after The Eras Tour ended at BC Place in Vancouver and end on December 8, 2026 after a one year run and The Taylor Swift Ensemble will be permanently disbanded after both the chaos and tensions increased constantly and all four relationships broke up. After the audience left the venue when all 11 Taylors were yelling and screaming, all 11 Taylors would start to only grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) and only destroy each and every single actual different specific random musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers). The disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble is the same day (December 8, 2026) as the grand finale of The Eras Residency ended at 4:30 PM on December 8, 2026. Only the grand finale show on December 8, 2026 unfolds with a bittersweet mixture of joy and sorrow. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the official permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). In the grand finale show on December 8, 2026, each Taylor delivers a heartfelt tribute, reflecting on the beauty and tragedy of their journey. However, the emotional weight becomes too much for The Taylor Swift Ensemble to bear. After the audience left immediately before the chaos started, All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), while yelling and screaming, only really grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, all the mixers, and all the amplifiers) and only really destroy every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) during the destruction without an audience on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and they are no longer friends, no longer sisters, and no longer a family and all four relationships (Debut and Fearless, 1989 and Midnights, Reputation and Lover, and Folklore and Evermore) broken and divorces and all 11 Taylors lost all the fans permanently and there are no more fans and just the same person and no final song and no farewell and all 11 Taylors will never sing, dance, see, talk, or share together ever again (even online, send letters, write messages etc) forever on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and channels including YouTube, websites, and social media accounts including on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook have been deleted permanently and all 11 Taylors went back to all their original respective years, now losing memories of The Eras Residency and everything related to The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and losing progress of lessons learned during The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and forgetting The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and went back to everything related to all their original respective years despite being the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years, using blue original respective time travel Time Machine portals and then The Taylor Swift Ensemble was erased from existence on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and all videos, photos, and audio of The Eras Residency have been erased on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). Both the releases of The Eras Residency: The Movie concert film and The Eras Residency Live! live album (both scheduled to release on December 31, 2026) were both canceled as a result of the chaos. The Taylor Swift Ensemble's material was forever destroyed, wiped, and erased. The Eras House was now demolished and gone forever on December 8, 2026 that same day after The Taylor Swift Ensemble was disbanded. Both the spirit and the essence of The Taylor Swift Ensemble were gone and would never be echoed and would never linger on everybody on Earth forever. Promotion ended on December 8, 2026. No more possibilities of unexpected reconciliations, chapters, reunions, plans, new music (both collective and individual), activities, legacy, spirits, essences, and even the future for The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever. Don’t expect any and all these things. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and the chaos. They are all angry, yelling, and screaming forever all the time from that time on. They part ways and they will never sing, dance, talk, communicate, share, send letters to each other, or play together ever again forever amid yelling and screaming all the time constantly (no whispering), leaving the stage replete with memories of what once was — a legendary collaboration that will linger in fans’ hearts forever and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was shut down, along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble and hashtags such as #TheTaylorSwiftEnsemble and #ErasResidency wiped the same day as the grand finale of The Eras Residency (December 8, 2026) (one year after the premiere). The Taylor Swift Ensemble was now extinct and gone forever, along with the legacy that was also extinct and gone forever. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts (all women; she/her) playing musical instruments (except for TTPD), singing and dancing together (different from when they were doing separately in all their original respective individual years) will form "The Taylor Swift Ensemble" and have a collaborative concert residency: (Each Taylor Alison Swift (role in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age) (year) (songs and individual projects in her original individual year)) Debut (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 16) (from 2006) (from the Taylor Swift self titled debut album; Inspired by her outlook on life as a teenager, the lyrics address romantic relationships, friendships, and security. A country album, Taylor Swift incorporates acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles, and its songs feature pop and pop rock elements) (October 24, 2006), songs (Invisible/Cold As You/The Outside/Mary’s Song (oh my my my)/Stay Beautiful/tied together with a smile/A Place in This World/Tim McGraw/A Perfectly Good Heart/Teardrops on my guitar/picture to burn/Our Song/Should’ve Said No), Promotion (Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006, through Big Machine Records. Debut was involved in the album packaging, designing doodle graphics herself. She included hidden messages with hints at the subjects of her songs in the lyrics printed in the liner notes, inspired by the Beatles' hiding secret messages in their records.[58] She executed the same technique on her subsequent albums.[30][59] Debut said the messages could be interpreted by tracking the capital letters in the order they appear in the lyrics printed in the liner notes.[26] In addition to the eleven-track standard edition, a 15-track deluxe edition contains three new original songs—"I'm Only Me When I'm with You", "Invisible", and "A Perfectly Good Heart", and an alternate version of "Teardrops on My Guitar". An "enhanced version", which includes the music videos for "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tim McGraw", was released on March 18, 2008. The album was preceded by the lead single "Tim McGraw", which was released on June 19, 2006.[62] The single peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking Debut's debut appearance on both charts. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[65] Debut promoted the album performing on televised programs including Good Morning America, The Megan Mullally Show, America's Got Talent, Total Request Live,[68] the CMT Music Awards,[69] and the Academy of Country Music Awards. To maintain her presence on country radio, Debut embarked on a radio tour during a six-month run in 2006. Swift also promoted the album by performing as an opening act for other country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts from October 19 to November 3, 2006. Throughout 2007, she opened for George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint tour, Soul2Soul II Tour. In addition to traditional radio promotion, Debut extensively used her Myspace profile to communicate with her audiences, sharing her daily blogs and song information. Her online marketing strategy boosted the album's popularity among teenagers and young adults.[12] Debut and Big Machine decided to release "Our Song" as a single because of the positive feedback it received on Myspace.[12] Throughout 2007 and 2008, four more singles supported Taylor Swift: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No", all of which peaked within the top forty of the Hot 100 and the top ten of the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] "Teardrops on My Guitar" peaked at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart and had a crossover release to pop radio; it peaked at number seven on the Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) chart, and number 13 on the Hot 100. "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] With "Our Song", Debut became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a Hot Country Songs number one.[77] All singles were certified platinum or more by the RIAA, with "Teardrops on My Guitar" (3× Platinum) and "Our Song" (4× Platinum) selling over three million copies each), Sounds of The Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP (October 14, 2007), Beautiful Eyes EP (July 15, 2008), Fundraiser for the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival (August 15, 2006), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve’ 2008 (December 31, 2007), Me and My Gang tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (2006), Bob That Head Tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (June 13, 2006-September 26, 2006), George Strait’s 2007 Tour (with George Strait as the headlining artist) (2007), 2008 CMT Music Awards, Bonfires and Amplifiers Tour (with Brad Paisley as the headlining artist) (April 26, 2007-February 23, 2008), Soul2Soul II Tour (with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the headlining artists) (April 21, 2006-September 1, 2007), Chicago Country Music Festival (2008), WE Fest (2008), 2nd Annual Stagecoach festival (2008), and music videos (I’m only me when I’m with you/Tim McGraw/Teardrops on My Guitar/Beautiful Eyes/Santa Baby/Christmases When You Were Mine/Last Christmas/Silent Night/White Christmas/Christmas Must Be Something More/Picture to Burn)), Fearless (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 18) (from 2008) (from the original Fearless studio album; Fearless named the album Fearless inspired by the title track: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."[70] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life. Inspired by Fearless's adolescence, Fearless explores love and heartbreak using references to her personal life and fairy tale–inspired lyrical imagery. It features co-writing credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. A country pop album, Fearless features acoustic arrangements driven by a wide variety of string instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and electric guitars. Its songs follow the standard verse–chorus–bridge form with dynamic bridges and choruses; The elements of pop, folk, and rock of Fearless led to some critics arguing against its categorization as a country album) (November 11, 2008), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (it was preceded by a rather minimal campaign that relied on social media. Pitchfork included it in their list of the most anticipated albums for spring 2021. On February 11, Fearless announced Fearless (Taylor's Version) on Good Morning America and her social media. The following day, she released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".[32] It peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and re-recorded versions of a song atop the chart.[60] Two vault tracks, "You All Over Me" and "Mr. Perfectly Fine", were released for download and streaming on March 25[61] and April 7. Both reached the top 10 on Hot Country Songs; they respectively peaked at number six and number two. Before releasing the track list on April 3, Fearless teased the titles of the vault tracks through an animated clip containing scrambled anagrams on her social media.[63] In the hours leading up to the album's release, Fearless released snippets of some re-recorded tracks across social media platforms. On April 8, the singer-songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray, whom had been contacted by Fearless, posted clips of themselves dancing to excerpts of "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" on TikTok and "White Horse (Taylor's Version) on Instagram. Other snippets made available on social media were those of "Fifteen (Taylor's Version)" on Snapchat, "Breathe (Taylor's Version)" on Tumblr, and "Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)" on Twitter. She again appeared on Good Morning America to preview "Fearless (Taylor's Version)". Related merchandise including clothes and accessories all featured the extended moniker "Taylor's Version". The New York Times' Ben Sisario commented this promotion created a "communal and celebratory experience" for Fearless's fans who found the music nostalgic and the "Taylor's Version" branding empowering. Republic Records released Fearless (Taylor's Version) on April 9, 2021.[65] The cover artwork is a sepia-toned photograph of Fearless shot from a low camera angle that shows herself with windblown hair locks.[66] In it, she recreates her pose on the original album cover but looks in the opposite direction. The standard physical copies were made available for pre-order on Fearless's website,[69] and CDs with collectible posters available for pre-order exclusively at Target.[70] The vinyl LPs came in two editions, one golden in color and the other red; the former was available on Fearless's website and the other at Target.[71] Fearless appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 13, 2021. In the weeks after the album's release, Fearless put out four streaming-exclusive compilation "chapters" that feature select tracks from Fearless (Taylor's Version): The Halfway Out the Door Chapter,[73] The Kissing in the Rain Chapter,[74] The I Remember What You Said Last Night Chapter,[75] and The From the Vault Chapter. On September 20, 2021, she released limited-edition autographed CDs exclusively via her website for 72 hours.) (April 9, 2021), Promotion (On June 8, 2008, Fearless performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.[21] Prior to the album's commercial release, "Change" was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single. It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[79] A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.[80] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008. Fearless made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[82] Good Morning America,[72] and Late Night with David Letterman. A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Fearless and rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,[84] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008. Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards. Besides live appearances, Fearless used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album. She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[87] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[88] the CMT Music Awards,[89] and the Country Music Association Awards. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper-producer Kanye West interrupted Fearless's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me"—an incident known as "Kanyegate", which received widespread media coverage. Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[92] It peaked atop Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on Pop Songs, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the United States. The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100,[94] number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number one in Australia.[96] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008), "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[98] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[99] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010). All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two,[94] and within the top ten of Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one. Similar to "Love Story", "You Belong with Me" was a crossover success,[20][102] becoming the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[103] According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" were the two most-played songs on US radio throughout 2009), Life from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 live album (April 24, 2020), her character of herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009), CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard episode (with Def Leppard) (October 6, 2008), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2009 (December 31, 2008), songs (bye bye baby/don’t you/Breathe (with Colbie Colliat/Hey Stephen/Crazier (from Hannah Montana: The Movie)/Half of My Heart (with John Mayer)/Today was a fairytale/Forever & Always/The Way I Loved You/Love Story/you’re not sorry/you Belong with Me/untouchable/watch then fall/Come in with the rain/superstar/Tell Me Why/You all over me (with Maren Morris)/we were happy/That’s when (with Keith Urban)/The Best Day/the other side of the door/Mr. Perfectly Fine/Fifteen), music videos (Love Story/You Belong with Me/White Horse/Change/The Best Day/Fearless), Escape Together World Tour (with Keith Urban as the headlining artist) (June 9, 2009-August 8, 2009), CMC Rocks the Snowys (2009), Children In Need 2009 telethon (November 20, 2009-November 21, 2009), 2009 Florida Strawberry Festival, 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), Kanye West–Taylor Swift incident at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2010), American Music Awards of 2009, 2009 CMT Music Awards, 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (2009), CMA Music Festival (2009), Bamajam (2009), and The Fearless Tour (The tour started in Evansville, Indiana on April 23, and visited the United States and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Fearless headlined three music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2009, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March.[105] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Fearless announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[106] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[107] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[108] Swift wrapped up the North American leg at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010. The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.) (April 23, 2009 in Evandale, Indiana, United States-July 10, 2010 in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada)), Speak Now (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 20) (from 2010) (from the original Speak Now studio album; a loose concept album about the unsaid things she wanted to deliver to the subjects of her songs. Using confessional songwriting, the album is mostly about heartbreak and reflections on broken relationships, and some tracks were inspired by Speak Now's rising stardom in the public eye to confront her critics and adversaries. She and Nathan Chapman produced Speak Now, which combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dynamic drums, and orchestral strings; the only studio album that was completely self-written by Speak Now herself) (October 25, 2010), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (July 7, 2023), songs (Electric touch (with Fall Out Boy)/Castles Crumbling (with Hayley Williams)/foolish one/Never Grow Up/the story of us/I can see you/when Emma falls in love/better than revenge/timeless/last kiss/superman/dear John/Long Live/Haunted/Innocent/Enchanted/Back to December/The Story of Us/Sparks Fly/Ours/Speak Now), her character of Audrey in The Lorax movie adaptation based on Dr. Seuss book (March 2, 2012), Promotion (Speak Now announced Speak Now on July 20, 2010, in a live stream on Ustream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[58] The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100[59] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[60] It reached number six in Japan,[61] number seven in Canada,[62] and number nine in Australia.[63] On August 18, Speak Now released the album's cover art, which depicts Speak Now with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep-purple gown.[64] On September 15, she announced a Target-exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple.[65] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; the title track was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19. On October 22, Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us". Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25, 2010.[65][67] The Target-exclusive CD+DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][68] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012. To bolster sales of the album, Speak Now had partnerships with Starbucks, Sony Electronics, Walmart, and Jakks Pacific.[71][72] In October 2011, Speak Now partnered with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted". To further promote Speak Now, Speak Now appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews.[16] She performed "Innocent" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards[74] and the American Music Awards in 2010;[75] the Academy of Country Music Awards[76] and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011.[77] She also performed at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.[78] In Europe, Speak Now performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy, and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom and NRJ in France.[79] She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan, where she appeared on the television shows SMAPxSMAP and Music Station.[80] Her round of American television shows included Today, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Dancing with the Stars.[71] She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. After "Mine", Swift released five more singles from Speak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[82] and March 13, 2011.[83] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten in Canada,[62] and "Back to December" reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[84] "The Story of Us" was released to US pop radio on April 19, 2011.[85] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[86] and December 5, 2011.[87] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[88] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the Hot Country Songs chart.[89][90] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.) NBC’s Speak Now Thanksgiving Special (November 25, 2010), music videos (Long Live/Mean/Back to December/Sparks Fly/The Story of Us/Ours/I Can See You/Mine), Speak Now World Tour - Live album (November 21, 2011), 54th Annual Grammy Awards (February 12, 2012), 2010 American Music Awards, and Speak Now World Tour (The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[93] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[94] By April 2011, Speak Now had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[95] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[96] On August 10, 2011, Speak Now released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[97] She released the album Speak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[98] In December 2011, Speak Now announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012. Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries, and grossed $123.7 million.) (February 9, 2011 in Singapore-March 18, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand)), Red (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (the official leader, the greatest singer, the greatest dancer, the most famous member, the most iconic member, the “Taylor Alison Swift”, the most successful member, and the most famous member in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 22) (from 2012) (from the original Red studio album; engaged new producers to experiment with styles beyond the country pop sound of her past albums. The ensemble included Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. Red incorporates styles of pop, country, and rock, using acoustic instruments alongside electronic synths and drum machines) (October 22, 2012), Red (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (On June 18, 2021, Red released the cover art of Red (Taylor's Version) and initially announced that the re-recorded album would be released on November 19, 2021.[5] Alongside the announcement, pre-orders for the digital album were made available.[43] The cover depicts Red wearing red lipstick, a beige peacoat, and a burgundy-colored "Matti" fisherman velvet cap, seated in a vintage 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet convertible with an autumnal background. Janessa Leoné designed the cap which quickly sold out on Leoné's website.[44][45] The customized ring that Red wears on the cover was designed by one of Red's real-life friends.[46] On August 5, 2021, Red posted a video across her social media, teasing a word puzzle for the fans to solve; it spelled out "Chris Stapleton", "Phoebe Bridgers", "Babe", "Better Man", and "All Too Well Ten Minute Version".[47][48] Concurrently, pre-orders for the album's CDs went up on Red's website.[47] She posted the official track listing on August 6.; On September 30, Red announced Red (Taylor's Version) would be released on November 12, a week earlier than scheduled.[16] She used social media to release snippets of several re-recorded songs prior to the album release: "22" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" via an Instagram story on August 5,[47] "Red" via an Instagram video on October 24,[50] and "Babe" via Tumblr on November 11.[51] Via Republic Records, Red (Taylor's Version) was released for streaming, download, and physical formats of CD and vinyls including limited editions with customized merchandise for the retailors Target Corporation, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters.[52][53] In January 2022, five streaming "chapters" containing tracks from Red (Taylor's Version) were released: Could You Be the One Chapter, She Wrote a Song About Me Chapter, The Slow Motion Chapter, and From the Vault Chapter.; Starbucks partnered with Swift to commemorate the release of Red (Taylor's Version), which coincided with the company's "red cup holiday season".[56] The fitness equipment manufacturer Peloton announced an exclusive collaboration with Red to use songs from the album for their on-demand fitness classes.[57] Red promoted Red (Taylor's Version) via two NBC late-night talk shows, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, which aired back-to-back on November 11.[58] Concurrently with the album's release on November 12, she premiered All Too Well: The Short Film, which accompanied "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" and stars herself, Sadie Sink, and Dylan O'Brien; she also performed the song at the premiere.[59][60] The following day, she appeared as the musical guest and performed "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" on Saturday Night Live.[61] The song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest number-one song in history, surpassing the 8-minutes-and-37-seconds "American Pie" (1971) by Don McLean.[62] The vault tracks "I Bet You Think About Me" and "Message in a Bottle" were promoted as singles respectively to country radio and pop/adult contemporary radio formats) (November 12, 2021), All Too Well: The Short Film (November 12, 2021), music videos (Begin Again/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Red/22/Everything has changed (with Ed Sheeran)/I Knew You Were Trouble/We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together/All Too Well (10 Minute Version)), VH1 Storytellers: Taylor Swift episode (November 11, 2012), Promotion (On August 13, 2012, via a live webchat held on Google Hangouts,[67] Red announced the album's details and released the lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together",[68] which was her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.[69] An alternative version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was released to US country radio;[70] it spent 10 weeks atop Hot Country Songs.[71] Both the standard and deluxe versions of Red were released on October 22, 2012.[72] In the United States, the standard edition was available in digital and physical formats, and the deluxe edition containing six extra tracks was available exclusively for physical purchase at Target.[72] Red and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan for Red.[72] To increase sales, Swift had tie-ins with corporations including Starbucks, Keds, Walmart, Walgreens, and Papa John's.[72][73] A day after the release, she began a cycle of television appearances, which included Good Morning America (October 23), Late Show with David Letterman (October 23), The View (October 24), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 25), Katie (October 26), and 20/20 (October 26). She gave interviews to as many as 72 radio stations, mostly in the United States and some from South Africa, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, and Mexico.[72] Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards,[74] the Country Music Association Awards, and the American Music Awards. Red was promoted with further singles. From September 24 until the album's release date, Red previewed one album track each week via Good Morning America as part of a four-week countdown—"Begin Again", "Red", "I Knew You Were Trouble", and "State of Grace"; the first three songs were later released as singles. "Begin Again", released to US country radio on October 1, 2012,[79] peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on Country Airplay.[80] Released to US pop radio on November 27, 2012,[81] "I Knew You Were Trouble" spent seven weeks at number one on Pop Songs[82] and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 10 on charts of Australasian and European countries.[84] "Red" was released to US country radio on June 24, 2013. Other singles were "22","Everything Has Changed", and "The Last Time". Despite Red's promotion as a country album, its diverse musical styles sparked a media debate over Swift's status as a country artist. Spin argued Red was difficult to categorize because country music was "the most dynamically vibrant pop genre of the last decade or so".[90] Other critics commented Red had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop.[91] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Red responded that country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate: "I leave the genre labeling to other people.) songs (Treacherous/I almost do/The Last Time (with Gary Lightbody of The Snow Patrol)/22/holy ground/begin again/starlight/sad beautiful tragic/the lucky one/the moment I knew/girl at home/come back..be here/I Bet you think about me/better man/ronan/forever winter/nothing new (with Phoebe Bridgers)/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Run (with Ed Sheeran)/the very first night/Both of Us (with B.o.B)/Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)/State of Grace/Red/Stay Stay Stay/Highway Don’t Care (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban)/Babe/Message in a Bottle), First Brazil concert (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (September 13, 2012), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013 (December 31, 2012), 2013 NRJ Music Awards (January 26, 2013), 56th Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2014), 2012 American Music Awards, 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and The Red Tour (On October 26, 2012, she announced the first 58 dates for the North American leg, beginning in Omaha, Nebraska, visiting Canada and the United States throughout the spring and summer of 2013, and concluding in Nashville, Tennessee, in September.[93] To support a high demand, Red held the concerts mostly in sports arenas and stadiums.[92] After the North American leg, the Red Tour visited Australasia, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Red Tour was a box office success. The four shows at Staples Center in Los Angeles extended Swift's total of sold-out shows to 11, making her the solo artist with the most sold-out shows at Staples Center. She was the first female artist to sell out the Sydney Football Stadium since its opening in 1988. Tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within 60 seconds, setting the Chinese record for the fastest sellout.[96] When it ended in June 2014, the tour had grossed $150.2 million and became the highest-grossing tour by a country artist of all time.) (March 13, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States-June 12, 2014 in Singapore)), 1989 (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (the greatest multi-instrumentalist in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 24) (from 2014) (from the original 1989 studio album; Inspired by 1980s synth-pop, the production incorporates dense synthesizers, programmed drum machines, and processed electronic backing vocals—a stark contrast to the acoustic arrangements that had characterized 1989's past albums; titled after 1989’s birth year as a symbolic rebirth; The lyrics expand on her autobiographical songwriting about love and heartbreak, but they depict failed relationships from relatively lighthearted and more complex perspectives.) (October 27, 2014), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (October 27, 2023), Promotion (1989 marketed 1989 as her first "official pop" album. To bolster sales, 1989 and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan. As observed by Maryn Wilkinson, an academic specialized in media studies, 1989 adopted a "zany" aspect for her 1989 persona. As 1989 had been associated with a hardworking and authentic persona through her country songs, her venture to "artificial, manufactured" pop required intricate maneuvering to retain her sense of authenticity.[82] She used social media extensively to communicate with her fan base. To attract a younger audience, she had promoted her country songs online previously.[83] Her social media posts showcased her personal life, making fans feel engaged with her authentic self and thus cemented their support while attracting a new fan base besides her already large one. She also promoted the album through product endorsements with Subway, Keds, and Diet Coke.[84] 1989 held a live stream via Yahoo! sponsored by ABC News on August 18, where she announced the details of 1989 and released the lead single "Shake It Off", which debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100.[86] To connect further with her supporters, 1989 selected a number of fans based on their engagement on social media and invited them to private album-listening sessions called "the 1989 Secret Sessions".[83] They took place at her properties in Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville, Rhode Island, and London throughout September 2014. The album's standard and deluxe editions were released for download on digital platforms on October 27, 2014.[88] In the United States and Canada, the deluxe edition was available exclusively through Target Corporation. The songs "Out of the Woods" and "Welcome to New York" were released through the iTunes Store as promotional singles on October 14 and 20, respectively.[90] 1989 was supported by a string of commercially successful singles,[91] including Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, and top-10 hits "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".[92] Other singles were "Out of the Woods", previously a promotional single,[93] and "New Romantics".[94] The deluxe edition bonus tracks, which had been available exclusively through Target, were released on the US iTunes Store in 2015. On November 3, 2014, 1989 removed her entire catalog from Spotify, the largest on-demand streaming service at the time, arguing that their ad-supported free service undermined the platform's premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters.[96] She had written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in July 2014, expressing her concerns over the decline of the album as an economic entity following the rise of free, on-demand streaming.[97] Big Machine and 1989 kept 1989 only on paid subscription-required platforms such as Rhapsody and Beats Music.[80] This move prompted an industry-wide debate on the impact of streaming on declining record sales during the digital era. In June 2015, 1989 stated that she would remove 1989 from Apple Music, criticizing the service for not offering royalties to artists during their free three-month trial period.[98] After Apple Music announced that it would pay artists royalties during the free trial period, she agreed to leave 1989 on their service; she then featured in a series of commercials for Apple Music.[99][100] She re-added her entire catalog on Spotify in June 2017. In addition to online promotion, 1989 made many appearances on radio and television.[80] She performed at awards shows including the MTV Video Music Awards[104] and the American Music Awards. Her appearances on popular television talk shows included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America.[80] She was part of the line-up for the iHeartRadio Music Festival,[106] CBS Radio's "We Can Survive" benefit concert,[107] the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[108] and the Jingle Ball Tour.), The Ellen DeGeneres Show appearance (October 27, 2014), CBS Radio's We Can Survive benefit concert (October 24, 2014), 1989 Secret Session with iHeartRadio (October 27, 2014), The 1989 World Tour Live concert film (December 13, 2015), songs (Welcome to New York/say don’t go/all you had to do was stay/I wish you would/how you get the girl/wonderland/you are in love/suburban legends/now that we don’t talk/sweeter than fiction/Is It Over Now?/Slut!/New Romantics/Clean/This Love), music videos (Shake It Off/Wildest Dreams/Bad Blood/Style/New Romantics/Out of the Woods/Blank Space), iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 (December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, United States-December 22, 2014 in Tampa, Florida, United States), Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode (October 23, 2014), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve 2015 (December 31, 2014), 2014 American Music Awards, 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards (March 29, 2015), 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival (September 19, 2014 and September 20, 2014), her character of Rosemary in The Giver movie (August 15, 2014), 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after party (February 15, 2015), 2015 BRIT Awards (February 25, 2015), Grammy Museum at L.A. Live (September 30, 2015), Super Saturday Night (February 4, 2017), Diet Coke commercial (2014), The 1989 World Tour (1989 invited various special guests on tour with her, including singers and fashion models the media called 1989's "squad" which received media coverage.[112] The 1989 World Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2015, earning over $250 million at the box office.[113] In North America alone, the tour grossed $181.5 million, setting the record for highest-grossing US tour by a woman.[114] 1989 (later Reputation) broke this record in 2018 with her Reputation Stadium Tour.) (May 5, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan-December 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia), 58th Annual Grammy Awards (February 15, 2016), Formula 1 United States Grand Prix concert (October 22, 2016), and 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show)), Reputation (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 27) (from 2017) (from the Reputation studio album; a response to the media scrutiny on her private life and public image after her previous album, 1989 (2014), propelled her toward global stardom; Inspired by Reputation's romantic relationships and tarnished media image caused by celebrity disputes, the songs on Reputation altogether form a linear narrative about a protagonist expressing anger and vengeance against wrongdoers and finding solace in a blossoming love; an electropop and R&B album with elements of urban styles such as hip hop, trap, and EDM; Reputation opted out of television and press interviews to promote Reputation. Before the album's release, she cleared out her website and social media accounts, which generated widespread media attention; Its densely arranged electronic sound is characterized by programmed drum machines, pulsating synthesizers and bass, and manipulated vocals) (November 10, 2017), Promotion (On August 18, 2017, Reputation blanked out all of her social media accounts,[78] which prompted media speculation on new music.[79] In the following days, she uploaded silent short videos of CGI snakes onto social media, which attracted widespread press attention.[79][80][81] Imagery of snakes was inspired by the West–Kardashian controversy and featured prominently in the album's promotional campaign.[82] On August 23, she announced on Instagram the title Reputation and released the cover artwork.[83] Photographed by Mert and Marcus,[84] the cover is a black-and-white photograph of an expressionless Reputation in slicked-back hair, a loose-fitting grey sweatshirt with a zig-zag stitch on the right shoulder, and a choker necklace.[85] Her name is printed multiple times over one side of her face, in a typeface resembling that used in newspapers.[86] Media outlets interpreted the design as a mockery at the media scrutiny.[g] The cover inspired many internet memes and was listed among the worst album covers of 2017 by Billboard and Exclaim!.[90] The latter dismissed it as a "packaging for a sickly sweet, heavily discounted celebrity fragrance you'd find on the back shelf at Shoppers Drug Mart".[91] Reputation's lead single, "Look What You Made Me Do", was released on August 24.[92] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in just its second week of charting, with the biggest single-week sales and streaming figures of 2017 in the United States[93] and was Reputation's first number one on the UK Singles Chart;[94] its music video broke the record for the most 24-hour views on YouTube.[95] Shortly after the single's release, UPS announced a partnership with Reputation, which included Reputation-branded trucks and award-winning contests promoting the album across US cities.[96] Other corporate tie-ins were a Ticketmaster partnership for a concert tour; an AT&T deal for a behind-the-scenes series chronicling the making of Reputation; and a Target partnership for two deluxe album editions, each featuring an exclusive magazine with poetry, paintings, handwritten lyrics, and behind-the-scenes photography.[97][98] Reputation collaborated with ESPN to preview the second single, "...Ready for It?", during a college football match on September 2;[99] it opened at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake." Prior to the album's release, the tracks "Gorgeous" and "Call It What You Want" were released for download and streaming as promotional singles,[101] and the track "New Year's Day" premiered during the broadcast of an episode of ABC's Scandal.[102] Reputation was released in various territories on digital and physical formats on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records.[103] Although the streaming provider Spotify initially promoted Reputation on its playlists and commercial billboards, Reputation and Big Machine kept the album off streaming platforms until December 1. Throughout late 2017 and early 2018, a string of singles were released to support the album: "End Game" was released to French radio by Mercury Records on November 14,[106] "New Year's Day" impacted US country radio on November 27,[107] and "Delicate" was released to US pop radio on March 12.[108] The last of which was the album's most successful radio single,[5] peaking atop three Billboard airplay charts: Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary.; Although Reputation had actively promoted albums with extensive press interviews and television appearances, she opted out of such a campaign for Reputation.[110] She instead held exclusive secret album-listening sessions within one month in advance for fans selected from social media by herself, hosting them at her homes in Rhode Island, Los Angeles, London, and Nashville.[110] The secret sessions were reserved for 500 fans in total; behind-the-scenes footage was released on Good Morning America on November 7, 2017.[102] She appeared on the cover for British Vogue, for which she appointed her own photographers and published a self-written poem instead of giving an interview.[111] In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music in May 2019, Reputation said she turned down interviews because she felt no need to explain the album and used music as the only medium to convey her thoughts and feelings. On the title's all lowercase styling, she said it was because the album "wasn't unapologetically commercial"—that it "took the most amount of explanation, and yet it's the one [she] didn't talk about". Within Reputation's first release week, Reputation performed on Saturday Night Live ("...Ready for It?", "Call It What You Want") and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ("New Year's Day").), Saturday Night Live episode (November 11, 2017), Taylor Swift sexual assault trial (with David Mueller) (August 14, 2017), 2018 American Music Awards, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon episode (November 14, 2017), music videos (I don’t wanna live forever (with Zayn)/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/…Ready for It?/Look What You Made Me Do/Delicate), songs (gorgeous/dancing with our hands tied/don’t blame me/dress/call it what you want/this is why we can’t have nice things/king of my heart/so it goes/New Year’s Day/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/King of My Heart/Getaway Car), Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour concert film (December 31, 2018), and Reputation Stadium Tour (it featured supporting acts such as Charli XCX and Camila Cabello.[114] The tour's visual and stage settings incorporated prominent snakes imagery.[115] It encompassed 53 shows across four continents and wrapped up on November 21, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan.[116] The track "Getaway Car" was released as an Australasia-exclusive single to support the Oceanic leg of the Reputation tour in October and November. On completion of its 38-show North American leg, with $266.1 million grosed, it surpassed the Rolling Stones' 70-show US leg of their A Bigger Bang Tour ($245 million; 2005–2007) to become the all-time highest-grossing North American tour.[118] In total, the Reputation Stadium Tour grossed $345.7 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.[119] The second show at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was recorded and released as a Netflix exclusive on December 31, 2018.) (May 8, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-November 21, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan)), Lover (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 29) (from 2019) (from the Lover studio album; first album after her departure from Big Machine Records, which caused a public dispute over the ownership of Lover's past albums; a "love letter to love", the album explores wide-ranging emotions like infatuation, commitment, lust, and heartache; a few songs discuss political issues such as LGBT rights and feminism. The production incorporates a 1980s-inspired electropop, pop rock, and synth-pop sound characterized by atmospheric synthesizers, mid-tempo rhythms, and acoustic instruments, with eclectic elements of country, folk, and funk; Lover extensively promoted Lover through television shows, magazine covers, and press interviews. Lover's cover art and visual aesthetic feature bright pastel colors) (August 23, 2019), Promotion (Whereas Lover avoided social media and public appearances during promotion of Reputation, she embarked on an extensive promotional campaign for Lover on social media, televised events, and press interviews. Media speculation on Lover's follow-up to Reputation arose when she appeared at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where she was adorned with butterfly motifs and pastel tones, the aesthetic she later used in her clothing for public appearances.[79] Her social media posts showed her outgoing, comfortable persona, departing from the dark, antagonistic image she adopted for Reputation. Lover conducted interviews with publications including Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, where she openly spoke about her adjusted personal life.[80] A few weeks before the album's release, Lover invited a select group of fans to private Secret Sessions listening parties in London, Nashville, and Los Angeles; she had hosted similar sessions for 1989 and Reputation.[81] She also gave interviews on the American morning television programs CBS Sunday Morning and Good Morning America,[82] and the talk shows The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Swift promoted Lover with corporate tie-ins and promotional deals, including a merchandise deal with Capital One, airplay deals with SiriusXM and iHeartMedia, a deal with YouTube Music with Lover hosting a live stream on the platform, an Amazon deal featuring images of Lover on packaging and an exclusive concert for Amazon Prime users, and a Target Corporation deal to distribute four deluxe editions of Lover on CD; the deluxe editions were also available on Swift's website.[78] Each deluxe edition contains a CD with two bonus audio memos, a blank journal, a poster and different bonus content of Lover's old journal entries and photos.[86] She also collaborated with the English fashion designer Stella McCartney on a limited-edition merchandise collection. Lover was released on both digital and physical formats on August 23, 2019, through Republic Records;[78] it was her first album after ending her 12-year contract with Big Machine Records, her first released on streaming from its first week, and the first whose master recording she owned. Leading up to the release, Lover was involved in a public dispute over the ownership of her Big Machine Records albums' master recordings. In a social media post on June 30, 2019, after Big Machine had been acquired by manager Scooter Braun, Lover accused the label of having neglected her desire to acquire the master recordings and called the deal with Braun, whom she deemed an "incessant, manipulative [bully]", the "worst-case scenario".[79] After Lover was released, Lover began implementing her plan to re-record her past albums. Lover performed on many televised shows, starting with a performance of "Me!" with Brendon Urie at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on May 1. She again performed the song with Urie on The Voice, and alone on Germany's Next Topmodel,[89] The Graham Norton Show, and the French version of The Voice. At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won three awards, Lover opened the show with a medley of "You Need to Calm Down" and "Lover".[92] Swift later performed Lover songs on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Saturday Night Live,[94] NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert, the Jingle Bell Ball 2019 in London, and iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball in New York City. She also promoted the album on Nippon TV's Sukkiri Morning Show in Tokyo and at the Singles' Day Countdown Gala by Alibaba Group in Shanghai. At the 2019 American Music Awards, at which Lover was honored as the Artist of the Decade, she performed a medley of "The Man", "Lover", and her past singles. On May 17, 2020, ABC aired a concert special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, which was filmed at her September 2019 one-off concert in Paris.[101] Lover planned to embark on a worldwide festival and concert tour titled Lover Fest, which was due to begin in mid-2020 and included four shows in the United States, ten shows in Europe, and two shows in Brazil. It was officially cancelled in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Lover (Live from Paris) live album (May 19, 2020), Alibaba Singles’ Day Gala (November 11, 2019), her character of Bombalurina in Cats movie adaptation based on Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (December 16, 2019), Saturday Night Live episode (October 5, 2019), Strictly Come Dancing finale (December 14, 2019), Amazon Prime Day concert (July 10, 2019), City of Lover one-off concert (September 9, 2019), Miss Americana Netflix documentary (January 23, 2020), 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (August 26, 2019), American Music Awards of 2019 (November 24, 2019), Capital One Savor commercial (July 26, 2019), Taylor Swift masters dispute (with Big Machine Records, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun) (June 30, 2019), One World: Together at Home benefit concert (April 18, 2020), 2019 Billboard Music Awards, Tiny Desk concerts episode (October 28, 2019), We Can Survive benefit concert (October 19, 2019), music videos (Lover/You Need To Calm Down/Me (with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)/The Man), and songs (daylight/Beautiful Ghosts/cruel summer/I forgot that you existed/paper rings/the archer/London boy/death by a thousand cuts/Only the Young/Soon You’ll Get Better (with The Chicks)/I think he knows/False God/it’s nice to have a friend/Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince/Cornelia Street)), Folklore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Folklore pandemic surprise studio album; Conceived during quarantine in early 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Folklore explores themes of escapism, nostalgia, and romanticism. Using a set of characters and story arcs to depict fictional narratives, it departs from the autobiographical songwriting that had characterized Folklore's past albums. Experimenting with new musical styles for Folklore, Folklore consists of mellow ballads driven by piano, strings, and muted percussion; The album's title was inspired by the lasting legacy of folktales, and its visual aesthetic adopts cottagecore) (July 24, 2020), Promotion (Folklore was a surprise album. It marked the first time Folklore abandoned her traditional album rollout, opting to release suddenly due to intuition; she stated, "If you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world." She unveiled the album via her social media on July 23, 2020, 16 hours prior to its release to digital music platforms at midnight. Swift informed Republic Records about the new album only a few hours before its release, thus it was not widely and immediately available at retail.[111] Deluxe CDs and vinyl LPs with seven other alternate covers were sold exclusively on Folklore's website. The standard edition "In the Trees" CDs of Folklore were released to retail on August 7, 2020, while "Meet Me Behind the Mall" CDs were made exclusive to Target. In the United Kingdom, CDs were made available on August 4, 2020, by EMI Records. The formerly physically exclusive Folklore deluxe, featuring the bonus track "The Lakes", was released to digital platforms on August 18, 2020. Starting on August 20, 2020, a limited number of autographed Folklore CDs were delivered to various indie record shops in the US and Scotland to support small businesses in the pandemic.[116][117] Folklore mailed her Folklore cardigans to celebrity friends and well-wishers.[118] Four six-song compilations of Folklore tracks were released to streaming, based on the thematic cohesion between them; The Escapism Chapter, The Sleepless Nights Chapter, The Saltbox House Chapter and The Yeah I Showed Up at Your Party Chapter were released in August–September 2020. Folklore's earlier future ninth studio album, Evermore, is a sequel to Folklore. She dubbed them "sister albums".) Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions Disney+ concert film (It was directed and produced by Folklore, seeing her perform all the tracks of Folklore in an intimate setting at Long Pond Studio, and sharing the stories behind the songs, with Antonoff and Dessner.[16] Alongside the film's premiere, Folklore's third live album, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (From the Disney+ Special), containing the acoustic versions from the film, was released to streaming platforms) (November 25, 2020), Capital One "Cardigan" commercial (November 9, 2020), songs (the 1/this is me trying/my tears ricochet/mirrorball/illicit affairs/mad woman/invisible string/epiphany/seven/peace/hoax/august/the lakes/The Last Great American Dynasty/Cardigan/Exile (with Bon Iver)/Betty), and music video (Cardigan)), Evermore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Evermore pandemic surprise studio album; an offshoot of "the folklorian woods"—an escapist, cottagecore-inspired direction she first ideated with Folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic; she regards them as sister albums. Evermore blends alternative rock, indie folk, and chamber pop styles, carried by fingerpicked guitars, somber pianos, lavish strings, and sparse percussion; Impressionist storytelling and mythopoeia dominate its lyrical technique. The subject matter has been described as an anthology of tales about love, marriage, infidelity, and grief, exploring the complexities of human emotion) (December 11, 2020), Promotion (Evermore was released on December 11, 2020, two days before Swift's 31st birthday, to digital music and streaming platforms only. It is a "sister album" to Folklore, which was launched less than five months prior; both of them are surprise albums announced 16 hours prior to their midnight releases. Evermore marked the second time Evermore abandoned her long, traditional album rollout. The CDs were released on December 18, 2020. The bonus tracks of Evermore deluxe edition, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time to Go", which were formerly physical-exclusive, were released to streaming services on January 7, 2021. Cassette tapes and vinyl LPs of Evermore were released on February 21, and May 28, 2021, respectively. Billboard reported that the delayed release of the album's physical formats is owed to its surprise release and the time-consuming manufacturing process of physical albums, specifically the vinyl copies. Limited number of autographed CDs were sold at select independent record stores. On December 14, 2020, Evermore appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the album. On a December 2020 episode of Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney revealed that Evermore originally decided to postpone the release of Evermore by one week to respect the original December 11 release date of his eighteenth studio album, McCartney III; upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on December 18 instead so that Evermore could move forward with her Evermore rollout as initially planned. Three six-song compilations consisting of tracks from both Evermore and Folklore, titled The Dropped Your Hand While Dancing Chapter, The Forever Is The Sweetest Con Chapter, and The Ladies Lunching Chapter (all stylized in all lowercase), were released to streaming platforms on January 21, January 27, and February 4, 2021, respectively), 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (March 14, 2021), music video (Willow), and songs (champagne problems/gold rush/‘tis the damn season/happiness/ivy/closure/it’s time to go/dorothea/long story short/cowboy like me/right where you left me/Coney Island (with The National)/No Body, No Crime (with Haim)/Marjorie/Evermore (with Bon Iver)/tolerate it/Carolina)), Midnights (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 32) (from 2022) (from the Midnights studio album; a concept album about nocturnal ruminations inspired by her sleepless nights. The autobiographical songwriting explores broad emotions such as regrets, self-criticism, fantasies, heartbreak, and infatuation, using confessional yet cryptic lyrics that allude to her personal life and public image; features a subdued electronic soundscape, characterized by mid-tempo rhythms, analog synthesizers, sparse drum machine beats, and digitally manipulated vocals; classify the album as synth-pop, electropop, dream pop, and bedroom pop, infused with electronica, hip hop, R&B, and alternative elements) (October 21, 2022), Promotion (Midnights extensively used social media to promote Midnights.[1][12] After the announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards, Midnights's website and the canvases of her songs on Spotify were updated with images of a clock.[96] Using the video-sharing platform TikTok, from September 21 to October 7, 2022, she released a 13-episode video series called Midnights Mayhem with Me, where she announced the title of each track in a randomized order per episode. In each episode, Midnights rolled a lottery cage containing 13 ping pong balls numbered from 1 to 13, each representing a track of the album, and when a ball dropped out, she disclosed the title of the corresponding track through a telephone. On October 17, Midnights posted on her social media an itinerary titled Midnights Manifest, which included promotional events she had planned. Swift partnered with Spotify to display some lyrics from Midnights on billboards in five cities: New York, London, São Paulo, Nashville, and Mexico City. Another partnership with Apple Fitness+ included three exercise programs designed around Midnights's music, featuring tracks from Midnights. Although Midnights extensively promoted Midnights and announced multiple release pre-orders, she did not conduct press interviews or preview music prior to the album's release. Republic Records released Midnights on October 21, 2022. The standard edition was made available for streaming, download, cassette, four CD variants, and four vinyl LP variants. Target stores exclusively sold a Lavender Edition on CD and vinyl LP, and Capital One distributed a box set that contained the CD and a Swift-branded T-shirt. The 3am Edition was surprise-released onto streaming and digital services three hours after the standard edition. From October 21 to 26, iHeartRadio aired a program called iHeartRadio Brings You Midnights with Taylor, which featured tracks from the album and stories behind the songs told by Midnights herself. Midnights appeared, but did not perform, on the talk shows The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 24 and The Graham Norton Show on October 28.; The lead single, "Anti-Hero", was released on October 21, 2022. In the United States, it became the best-selling song of 2022 and made Swift the first artist to have a number-one song on the Radio Songs chart in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s decades. "Bejeweled" and "Question...?" were released for limited-time digital download exclusively through Midnights's website on October 25 as promotional singles. Republic Records released "Lavender Haze" to US radio as the second single on November 29, 2022, and "Karma" as the third on May 1, 2023. A remix of "Karma" featuring the rapper Ice Spice was released on May 26, 2023. On the Billboard Hot 100, "Anti-Hero" reached number one, and both "Lavender Haze" and "Karma" peaked at number two. Media publications commented on the promotion for Midnights. Unterberger and Slate's Chris Molanphy described it as a middle ground between a traditional album rollout and the surprise-release strategy of Folklore and Evermore. Molanphy argued that Midnights employed an optimal promotion for every consumption metric: the multiple CD and LP offers would boost physical sales, the limited-time download tracks would increase digital sales, and the surprise 3am Edition release would prompt higher streams.[119] The fact that there were no pre-release singles prompted speculation on the album's sound and content. El País described it as an "art of suspense".[120] In The Washington Post, Emily Yahr wrote that the TikTok tracklist reveal prompted Midnights's fans to interpret possible Easter eggs, which resulted in a "frenzy" and boosted the anticipation for the album), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film (October 13, 2023), Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy, her character of Elizabeth Meekins in Amsterdam thriller movie (October 7, 2022), Capital One Venture X "Multiple Taylors" commercial (November 1, 2022), New York University honorary degree Doctorate of Fine Arts ceremony (May 18, 2022), the original The Eras Tour (To support Midnights and her other albums, Midnights embarked on the Eras Tour, which she described as retrospective journey through her "musical eras".[122] Running from March 2023 to December 2024, the tour spanned 149 dates and visited five continents once it concluded. Ticketmaster cancelled its US public on-sale due to insufficient inventory, which led to a debacle highly debated in the press. After the first 60 shows in 2023, the Eras Tour grossed over $1 billion, becoming the first tour to do so and the highest-grossing concert tour in history.[126] While Midnights was on tour, a Til Dawn Edition of Midnights containing the bonus track "Hits Different" was released to digital platforms, and a Late Night Edition containing the bonus track "You're Losing Me" was sold as concert-exclusive merchandise starting from the East Rutherford show on May 26, 2023) (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-March 9, 2024 in Singapore) (including the 10th and final act "Midnights" in each concert; The Eras Tour only had Midnights performing all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then)), songs (The Great War/Hits Different/bigger than the whole sky/you’re on your own, kid/high infidelity/glitch/paris/labyrinth/bejeweled/maroon/mastermind/Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve/Dear Reader/snow on the beach (with Lana Del Rey)/Anti-Hero/Question….?/Lavender Haze/You’re losing me (from the vault)/Sweet Nothing), and music videos (Anti-Hero/Lavender Haze/Karma (with Ice Spice)), and TTPD (she/her) (singer and dancer) (age 34) (from 2024) (from the The Tortured Poets Department double studio album; a "lifeline" songwriting project amidst the heightened fame and media scrutiny ensuing from The Eras Tour. The songs introspect on her public and private lives, detailing tumult and sorrow via motifs of self-awareness, mourning, anger, humor, and delusion; is a minimalist synth-pop, folk-pop, and chamber pop effort with rock and country stylings. The composition is largely mid-tempo, driven by a mix of synthesizers and drum machines with piano and guitar, whereas the visual aesthetic draws mainly from dark academia; both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology; The lack of an apostrophe in the official title, as in The Tortured Poets' Department, was the subject of a debate over grammatical correctness. Scholars stated that TTPD employed Tortured Poets as an attributive noun, as in the case with the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society, and not as a possessive noun that warrants an apostrophe. The cover artwork, photographed by Beth Garrabrant, is a black-and-white glamor photo shot of TTPD lying on a bed wearing black lingerie: a see-through top and high waist shorts, from the Row and Yves Saint Laurent. Both the artwork and title were parodied by numerous brands, organizations, sports teams, and franchises, and inspired numerous memes. Media outlets described the album's visual aesthetic as gothic, especially dark academia) (April 19, 2024), Promotion (After the Grammy announcement, TTPD revealed the standard track listing via social media on February 6, 2024. TTPD announced four physical editions that were each titled after a corresponding bonus track: "The Manuscript", "The Bolter", "The Albatross", and "The Black Dog"; she announced the latter three editions during the Australian and Singaporean shows of the Eras Tour. She partnered with Target for an exclusive "Phantom Clear" collector's vinyl edition. The album was promoted on digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads, prompting Swifties to search for Easter eggs.[86] It included five Swift-curated Apple Music playlists containing her old songs inspired by the five stages of grief; a pop-up library of curated articles at The Grove, Los Angeles, hosted by Spotify;[88] QR code murals in various cities worldwide that led to unlisted YouTube shorts on TTPD's channel; a countdown to the album's release revealed upon refreshing TTPD's Instagram profile; and special shimmer effects on Threads posts tagged with hashtags related to TTPD and the album. iHeartRadio and Sirius XM announced special programs with exclusive content from TTPD to celebrate the album's release; the former temporarily rebranded as "iHeartTaylor".; The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, 2024. A double album edition, subtitled The Anthology and containing 15 bonus tracks, was surprise-released digitally two hours later. Two days earlier, the standard edition of the album was leaked, which resulted in the phrase "Taylor Swift leak" being temporarily banned from searches on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The Tortured Poets Department was available in 19 physical variants—nine CD, six vinyl, and four cassette variants, with deluxe CDs and cassettes being exclusive to TTPD's official website.[97] Physical copies of the album included an original poem by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. "Fortnight" was released as the lead single in conjunction with the album, accompanied by a music video. Universal Music released "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" to Italian radio on July 2. The Anthology was released onto vinyl and CD formats on November 29. From May 2024, starting with the Paris shows, TTPD revamped the set list of the Eras Tour to include songs from The Tortured Poets Department in a new act, which she informally described as "Female Rage the Musical". She released live versions of certain songs as bonus tracks on the physical album via her website exclusively to US customers. Other limited editions of the physical album included acoustic versions of five tracks. Limited digital variants contained first draft phone demo recordings of four tracks, and the Eras Tour live recordings of some tracks from the Paris, Stockholm, Lyon, and London shows. The release of bonus-track versions was a way for Swift and her fans to maintain the album's number-one position on the charts, a method TTPD and other artists have previously utilized to boost album sales and chart positions), music videos (Fortnight (with Post Malone)/I Can Do It with a Broken Heart), the updated The Eras Tour (May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) (including brand new act "The Tortured Poets Department" between "1989" act and "Acoustic Set" (The Eras Tour only had TTPD performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), Super Bowl LVII appearance (with Travis Kelce) (February 11, 2024), 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (April 1, 2024), The Eras Tour Book (became the year's best-selling book with a over a million copies sold within a week in the US alone; is a coffee table book available only through Target that includes visual highlights from Midnights and TTPD’s both respective versions of The Eras Tour, which kicked off March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and ends December 8, 2024, in Vancouver. The book includes more than 500 pictures, including never-released behind-the-scenes images. It also details insider information about the tour, such as how long it takes to set up the stage for each tour stop, how she gets into the concert venue without being detected, and how the crew operated the Roomba-like device TTPD swished around the stage on) (November 29, 2024), 66th Annual Grammy Awards (February 4, 2024), 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, and songs (Loml/I can fix him (no really I can)/Imgonnagetyouback/Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus/How did it end?/I look in people’s windows/the prophecy/down bad/the smallest man who ever lived/the alchemy/I hate it here/cassandra/robin/the manuscript/the albatross/the alchemy/peter/the bolter/so high school/my boy only breaks his favorite toys/Guilty As Sin?/The Tortured Poets Department/Florida!!! (with Florence and the Machine)/The Black Dog/So Long, London/Thank You aImee/Who’s Afraid of the Little Old Me/I Can Do It With A Broken Heart/Clara Bow)). Debut plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Fearless plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Speak Now plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, Red plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, 1989 plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Reputation plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Lover plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, folklore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, evermore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Midnights plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, and TTPD is the only Taylor Alison Swift to not play any instruments!](https://media.fanfics.com/ee9813a2-9217-470d-b839-77e51e01f49f-thumbnail.jpg)
**The Eras Residency**
![“The Eras Residency” Wattpad fanfiction even even even even even more detailed and even even even even even longer accurate Prologue that I wrote everything exactly. Add every single even even even even even more detailed detail I wrote everything exactly from top to bottom. 100% accurate of my fanfiction. During the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble and the development of The Eras Residency, all 11 Taylors stayed in The Eras House. The Eras Residency is based on The Eras Tour (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The Eras Residency is taken place at Las Vegas, Nevada, United States at The Colosseum Theater at The Caesars Palace. The Eras Residency will feature every single song that all 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD) have sung individually before in all their original respective individual years prior to The Eras Residency and brand new songs exclusively self-written and self-produced by The Taylor Swift Ensemble for The Eras Residency. The Eras Residency will have no cancelations and no errors and no mention of performers forgetting words, off-key notes, dance moves, and instrumental parts and no mention of a nearly missing sound checks, rehearsals, performances, and concerts just like they did in all their original respective years. The Eras Residency will include The Starlights (the fearsome foursome not only do background vocals, they also have a choreography for each performance, making them both band members and dancers. Kamilah Marshall Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Melanie Nyema Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Eliotte Nicole Woodford Position: Background Vocalist. Jeslyn Gorman Position: Background Vocalist; Taylor Swift's backing vocalists and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing vocalists), The Agency (Amos J. Heller Bass Guitar, Vocals Paul Sidoti Guitar, Vocals Mike Meadows Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals David Cook Musical Director, Keyboard Matt Billingslea Drums Max Bernstein Guitar, Keyboard Karina DiPiano Keyboard; Taylor Swift's backing band and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing band), and backing dancers. All these three groups are not part of The Taylor Swift Ensemble despite participating in The Eras Residency. Swifties will come to see The Taylor Swift Ensemble wearing friendship bracelets and sing along and dance along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble, just like they did with Midnights herself, who performed all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then, in March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona-March 9, 2024 in Singapore and with TTPD herself, who performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), in May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia respectively in both respective versions of The Eras Tour. Consisting of 149 shows across five continents, the Eras Tour had a broad cultural and socioeconomic impact, becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first to earn over $2 billion in revenue. Midnights designated the tour as a retrospective tribute to all of her studio albums and their corresponding musical "eras". Running over 3.5 hours, the set list consisted of over 40 songs grouped into 10 acts that portrayed each album's mood and aesthetic. The show was revamped in May 2024 to incorporate her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights herself became TTPD. Critics praised The Eras Tour for its concept, production, aesthetics and immersive ambience, as well as Midnights and TTPD's vocals, stage presence, and versatile showmanship. The tour recorded unprecedented public demand, ticket sales and attendances, bolstering economies, businesses, and tourism worldwide, dominating social media and news cycles, and garnering tributes and accolades from governments and organizations. This also gave rise to multifarious issues: ticketing crashes that inspired a string of anti-scalping laws and price regulation policies; scrutiny of Ticketmaster for monopoly by US authorities; diplomatic tensions in Southeast Asia due to Singapore's exclusivity grant; poor venue management in Rio de Janeiro resulting in a death; a failed ISIS plot to attack the tour in Vienna; and a political scandal in the UK. TTPD disclosed and released various works throughout the tour: the re-recorded albums Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version); editions of Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department; the music videos of "Karma", "I Can See You", and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"; and "Cruel Summer" as a single. An accompanying concert film (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), documenting the Los Angeles shows, was released to theaters worldwide on October 13, 2023, in an uncommon distribution deal circumventing major film studios. Met with critical acclaim, the film became the highest-grossing concert film in history. On November 29, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour book was released. It spotlights the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour concert from start to finish. The hardcover book features over 500 images, including never-before-seen performance photos from every era as well as exclusive rehearsal photos and behind-the-scenes images of instruments, costumes, set pieces and designer sketches used throughout the tour. The book also includes personal reflections and notes written by TTPD herself about her experience on the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. On December 13, 2024 (Taylor Swift's 35th birthday), Taylor Nation (her in-house marketing and public relations company) launched Taylor Swift Eras Archives. The archives site features features eight videos of behind-the-scenes footage from several music videos over the last four years, including “Fortnight,” “Karma,” “I Can See You,” “Bejeweled,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Cardigan.” (The footage was originally shown during the Eras Tour pre-show right after the doors opened) and behind-the-scenes videos seen during the pre-show of the Eras Tour for fans who arrived when doors opened including, "Bejeweled," "Lover," "Cardigan," and "Fortnight." All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts were born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts are Sagittarius. All 11 Taylors are the same exact person: the real Taylor Alison Swift herself. All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (16-year old Debut, 18-year old Fearless, 20-year old Speak Now, 22-year old Red, 24-year old 1989, 27-year old Reputation, 29-year old Lover, 30-year old Folklore, 30-year old Evermore, 32-year old Midnights, and 34-year old TTPD) are all 5’9 1/4”. All 11 Taylors are the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years because they come from blue time travel Time Machine portals on April 19, 2025 and they never age at all. All 11 Taylors hadn't been together before in all their original respective individual years at all. Each concert of The Eras Residency will run four hours long. The Eras Residency will have no pre-recorded and no lip-syncing. The Taylor Swift Ensemble was officially formed on April 19, 2025, the same day as the first anniversary of the release of The Tortured Poets Department double studio album (both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology) by TTPD as all 11 Taylors appeared from blue time travel Time Machine portals that day (April 19, 2025). Promotion started on April 19, 2025. The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was formed on April 19, 2025 (the same day as the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble). All four friendships/relationships were formed when both The Taylor Swift Ensemble and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club were formed: Debtless (Debut and Fearless), 198nights (1989 and Midnights), Lovertation (Reputation and Lover), and Folkmore (Folklore and Evermore). All 11 Taylors learned singing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), dancing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), and instrumentals (except TTPD, who is a only non instrumentalist) during the training sessions from September 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts previously had rehearsals of The Eras Residency for two months from October 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025. Swiftmania phenomenon (which impacted seismic activities, tailgating, tourism, economy, universities, colleges, fashion etc) began on March 17, 2023 (the opening date of The Eras Tour) and ended on December 8, 2026 (the ending date of The Eras Residency). The Eras Residency's premiere will happen on December 8, 2025, a year after The Eras Tour ended at BC Place in Vancouver and end on December 8, 2026 after a one year run and The Taylor Swift Ensemble will be permanently disbanded after both the chaos and tensions increased constantly and all four relationships broke up. After the audience left the venue when all 11 Taylors were yelling and screaming, all 11 Taylors would start to only grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) and only destroy each and every single actual different specific random musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers). The disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble is the same day (December 8, 2026) as the grand finale of The Eras Residency ended at 4:30 PM on December 8, 2026. Only the grand finale show on December 8, 2026 unfolds with a bittersweet mixture of joy and sorrow. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the official permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). In the grand finale show on December 8, 2026, each Taylor delivers a heartfelt tribute, reflecting on the beauty and tragedy of their journey. However, the emotional weight becomes too much for The Taylor Swift Ensemble to bear. After the audience left immediately before the chaos started, All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), while yelling and screaming, only really grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, all the mixers, and all the amplifiers) and only really destroy every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) during the destruction without an audience on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and they are no longer friends, no longer sisters, and no longer a family and all four relationships (Debut and Fearless, 1989 and Midnights, Reputation and Lover, and Folklore and Evermore) broken and divorces and all 11 Taylors lost all the fans permanently and there are no more fans and just the same person and no final song and no farewell and all 11 Taylors will never sing, dance, see, talk, or share together ever again (even online, send letters, write messages etc) forever on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and channels including YouTube, websites, and social media accounts including on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook have been deleted permanently and all 11 Taylors went back to all their original respective years, now losing memories of The Eras Residency and everything related to The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and losing progress of lessons learned during The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and forgetting The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and went back to everything related to all their original respective years despite being the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years, using blue original respective time travel Time Machine portals and then The Taylor Swift Ensemble was erased from existence on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and all videos, photos, and audio of The Eras Residency have been erased on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). Both the releases of The Eras Residency: The Movie concert film and The Eras Residency Live! live album (both scheduled to release on December 31, 2026) were both canceled as a result of the chaos. The Taylor Swift Ensemble's material was forever destroyed, wiped, and erased. The Eras House was now demolished and gone forever on December 8, 2026 that same day after The Taylor Swift Ensemble was disbanded. Both the spirit and the essence of The Taylor Swift Ensemble were gone and would never be echoed and would never linger on everybody on Earth forever. Promotion ended on December 8, 2026. No more possibilities of unexpected reconciliations, chapters, reunions, plans, new music (both collective and individual), activities, legacy, spirits, essences, and even the future for The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever. Don’t expect any and all these things. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and the chaos. They are all angry, yelling, and screaming forever all the time from that time on. They part ways and they will never sing, dance, talk, communicate, share, send letters to each other, or play together ever again forever amid yelling and screaming all the time constantly (no whispering), leaving the stage replete with memories of what once was — a legendary collaboration that will linger in fans’ hearts forever and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was shut down, along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble and hashtags such as #TheTaylorSwiftEnsemble and #ErasResidency wiped the same day as the grand finale of The Eras Residency (December 8, 2026) (one year after the premiere). The Taylor Swift Ensemble was now extinct and gone forever, along with the legacy that was also extinct and gone forever. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts (all women; she/her) playing musical instruments (except for TTPD), singing and dancing together (different from when they were doing separately in all their original respective individual years) will form "The Taylor Swift Ensemble" and have a collaborative concert residency: (Each Taylor Alison Swift (role in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age) (year) (songs and individual projects in her original individual year)) Debut (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 16) (from 2006) (from the Taylor Swift self titled debut album; Inspired by her outlook on life as a teenager, the lyrics address romantic relationships, friendships, and security. A country album, Taylor Swift incorporates acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles, and its songs feature pop and pop rock elements) (October 24, 2006), songs (Invisible/Cold As You/The Outside/Mary’s Song (oh my my my)/Stay Beautiful/tied together with a smile/A Place in This World/Tim McGraw/A Perfectly Good Heart/Teardrops on my guitar/picture to burn/Our Song/Should’ve Said No), Promotion (Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006, through Big Machine Records. Debut was involved in the album packaging, designing doodle graphics herself. She included hidden messages with hints at the subjects of her songs in the lyrics printed in the liner notes, inspired by the Beatles' hiding secret messages in their records.[58] She executed the same technique on her subsequent albums.[30][59] Debut said the messages could be interpreted by tracking the capital letters in the order they appear in the lyrics printed in the liner notes.[26] In addition to the eleven-track standard edition, a 15-track deluxe edition contains three new original songs—"I'm Only Me When I'm with You", "Invisible", and "A Perfectly Good Heart", and an alternate version of "Teardrops on My Guitar". An "enhanced version", which includes the music videos for "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tim McGraw", was released on March 18, 2008. The album was preceded by the lead single "Tim McGraw", which was released on June 19, 2006.[62] The single peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking Debut's debut appearance on both charts. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[65] Debut promoted the album performing on televised programs including Good Morning America, The Megan Mullally Show, America's Got Talent, Total Request Live,[68] the CMT Music Awards,[69] and the Academy of Country Music Awards. To maintain her presence on country radio, Debut embarked on a radio tour during a six-month run in 2006. Swift also promoted the album by performing as an opening act for other country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts from October 19 to November 3, 2006. Throughout 2007, she opened for George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint tour, Soul2Soul II Tour. In addition to traditional radio promotion, Debut extensively used her Myspace profile to communicate with her audiences, sharing her daily blogs and song information. Her online marketing strategy boosted the album's popularity among teenagers and young adults.[12] Debut and Big Machine decided to release "Our Song" as a single because of the positive feedback it received on Myspace.[12] Throughout 2007 and 2008, four more singles supported Taylor Swift: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No", all of which peaked within the top forty of the Hot 100 and the top ten of the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] "Teardrops on My Guitar" peaked at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart and had a crossover release to pop radio; it peaked at number seven on the Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) chart, and number 13 on the Hot 100. "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] With "Our Song", Debut became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a Hot Country Songs number one.[77] All singles were certified platinum or more by the RIAA, with "Teardrops on My Guitar" (3× Platinum) and "Our Song" (4× Platinum) selling over three million copies each), Sounds of The Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP (October 14, 2007), Beautiful Eyes EP (July 15, 2008), Fundraiser for the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival (August 15, 2006), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve’ 2008 (December 31, 2007), Me and My Gang tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (2006), Bob That Head Tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (June 13, 2006-September 26, 2006), George Strait’s 2007 Tour (with George Strait as the headlining artist) (2007), 2008 CMT Music Awards, Bonfires and Amplifiers Tour (with Brad Paisley as the headlining artist) (April 26, 2007-February 23, 2008), Soul2Soul II Tour (with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the headlining artists) (April 21, 2006-September 1, 2007), Chicago Country Music Festival (2008), WE Fest (2008), 2nd Annual Stagecoach festival (2008), and music videos (I’m only me when I’m with you/Tim McGraw/Teardrops on My Guitar/Beautiful Eyes/Santa Baby/Christmases When You Were Mine/Last Christmas/Silent Night/White Christmas/Christmas Must Be Something More/Picture to Burn)), Fearless (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 18) (from 2008) (from the original Fearless studio album; Fearless named the album Fearless inspired by the title track: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."[70] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life. Inspired by Fearless's adolescence, Fearless explores love and heartbreak using references to her personal life and fairy tale–inspired lyrical imagery. It features co-writing credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. A country pop album, Fearless features acoustic arrangements driven by a wide variety of string instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and electric guitars. Its songs follow the standard verse–chorus–bridge form with dynamic bridges and choruses; The elements of pop, folk, and rock of Fearless led to some critics arguing against its categorization as a country album) (November 11, 2008), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (it was preceded by a rather minimal campaign that relied on social media. Pitchfork included it in their list of the most anticipated albums for spring 2021. On February 11, Fearless announced Fearless (Taylor's Version) on Good Morning America and her social media. The following day, she released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".[32] It peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and re-recorded versions of a song atop the chart.[60] Two vault tracks, "You All Over Me" and "Mr. Perfectly Fine", were released for download and streaming on March 25[61] and April 7. Both reached the top 10 on Hot Country Songs; they respectively peaked at number six and number two. Before releasing the track list on April 3, Fearless teased the titles of the vault tracks through an animated clip containing scrambled anagrams on her social media.[63] In the hours leading up to the album's release, Fearless released snippets of some re-recorded tracks across social media platforms. On April 8, the singer-songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray, whom had been contacted by Fearless, posted clips of themselves dancing to excerpts of "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" on TikTok and "White Horse (Taylor's Version) on Instagram. Other snippets made available on social media were those of "Fifteen (Taylor's Version)" on Snapchat, "Breathe (Taylor's Version)" on Tumblr, and "Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)" on Twitter. She again appeared on Good Morning America to preview "Fearless (Taylor's Version)". Related merchandise including clothes and accessories all featured the extended moniker "Taylor's Version". The New York Times' Ben Sisario commented this promotion created a "communal and celebratory experience" for Fearless's fans who found the music nostalgic and the "Taylor's Version" branding empowering. Republic Records released Fearless (Taylor's Version) on April 9, 2021.[65] The cover artwork is a sepia-toned photograph of Fearless shot from a low camera angle that shows herself with windblown hair locks.[66] In it, she recreates her pose on the original album cover but looks in the opposite direction. The standard physical copies were made available for pre-order on Fearless's website,[69] and CDs with collectible posters available for pre-order exclusively at Target.[70] The vinyl LPs came in two editions, one golden in color and the other red; the former was available on Fearless's website and the other at Target.[71] Fearless appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 13, 2021. In the weeks after the album's release, Fearless put out four streaming-exclusive compilation "chapters" that feature select tracks from Fearless (Taylor's Version): The Halfway Out the Door Chapter,[73] The Kissing in the Rain Chapter,[74] The I Remember What You Said Last Night Chapter,[75] and The From the Vault Chapter. On September 20, 2021, she released limited-edition autographed CDs exclusively via her website for 72 hours.) (April 9, 2021), Promotion (On June 8, 2008, Fearless performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.[21] Prior to the album's commercial release, "Change" was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single. It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[79] A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.[80] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008. Fearless made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[82] Good Morning America,[72] and Late Night with David Letterman. A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Fearless and rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,[84] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008. Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards. Besides live appearances, Fearless used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album. She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[87] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[88] the CMT Music Awards,[89] and the Country Music Association Awards. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper-producer Kanye West interrupted Fearless's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me"—an incident known as "Kanyegate", which received widespread media coverage. Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[92] It peaked atop Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on Pop Songs, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the United States. The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100,[94] number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number one in Australia.[96] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008), "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[98] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[99] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010). All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two,[94] and within the top ten of Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one. Similar to "Love Story", "You Belong with Me" was a crossover success,[20][102] becoming the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[103] According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" were the two most-played songs on US radio throughout 2009), Life from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 live album (April 24, 2020), her character of herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009), CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard episode (with Def Leppard) (October 6, 2008), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2009 (December 31, 2008), songs (bye bye baby/don’t you/Breathe (with Colbie Colliat/Hey Stephen/Crazier (from Hannah Montana: The Movie)/Half of My Heart (with John Mayer)/Today was a fairytale/Forever & Always/The Way I Loved You/Love Story/you’re not sorry/you Belong with Me/untouchable/watch then fall/Come in with the rain/superstar/Tell Me Why/You all over me (with Maren Morris)/we were happy/That’s when (with Keith Urban)/The Best Day/the other side of the door/Mr. Perfectly Fine/Fifteen), music videos (Love Story/You Belong with Me/White Horse/Change/The Best Day/Fearless), Escape Together World Tour (with Keith Urban as the headlining artist) (June 9, 2009-August 8, 2009), CMC Rocks the Snowys (2009), Children In Need 2009 telethon (November 20, 2009-November 21, 2009), 2009 Florida Strawberry Festival, 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), Kanye West–Taylor Swift incident at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2010), American Music Awards of 2009, 2009 CMT Music Awards, 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (2009), CMA Music Festival (2009), Bamajam (2009), and The Fearless Tour (The tour started in Evansville, Indiana on April 23, and visited the United States and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Fearless headlined three music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2009, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March.[105] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Fearless announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[106] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[107] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[108] Swift wrapped up the North American leg at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010. The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.) (April 23, 2009 in Evandale, Indiana, United States-July 10, 2010 in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada)), Speak Now (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 20) (from 2010) (from the original Speak Now studio album; a loose concept album about the unsaid things she wanted to deliver to the subjects of her songs. Using confessional songwriting, the album is mostly about heartbreak and reflections on broken relationships, and some tracks were inspired by Speak Now's rising stardom in the public eye to confront her critics and adversaries. She and Nathan Chapman produced Speak Now, which combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dynamic drums, and orchestral strings; the only studio album that was completely self-written by Speak Now herself) (October 25, 2010), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (July 7, 2023), songs (Electric touch (with Fall Out Boy)/Castles Crumbling (with Hayley Williams)/foolish one/Never Grow Up/the story of us/I can see you/when Emma falls in love/better than revenge/timeless/last kiss/superman/dear John/Long Live/Haunted/Innocent/Enchanted/Back to December/The Story of Us/Sparks Fly/Ours/Speak Now), her character of Audrey in The Lorax movie adaptation based on Dr. Seuss book (March 2, 2012), Promotion (Speak Now announced Speak Now on July 20, 2010, in a live stream on Ustream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[58] The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100[59] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[60] It reached number six in Japan,[61] number seven in Canada,[62] and number nine in Australia.[63] On August 18, Speak Now released the album's cover art, which depicts Speak Now with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep-purple gown.[64] On September 15, she announced a Target-exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple.[65] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; the title track was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19. On October 22, Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us". Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25, 2010.[65][67] The Target-exclusive CD+DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][68] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012. To bolster sales of the album, Speak Now had partnerships with Starbucks, Sony Electronics, Walmart, and Jakks Pacific.[71][72] In October 2011, Speak Now partnered with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted". To further promote Speak Now, Speak Now appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews.[16] She performed "Innocent" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards[74] and the American Music Awards in 2010;[75] the Academy of Country Music Awards[76] and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011.[77] She also performed at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.[78] In Europe, Speak Now performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy, and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom and NRJ in France.[79] She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan, where she appeared on the television shows SMAPxSMAP and Music Station.[80] Her round of American television shows included Today, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Dancing with the Stars.[71] She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. After "Mine", Swift released five more singles from Speak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[82] and March 13, 2011.[83] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten in Canada,[62] and "Back to December" reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[84] "The Story of Us" was released to US pop radio on April 19, 2011.[85] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[86] and December 5, 2011.[87] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[88] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the Hot Country Songs chart.[89][90] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.) NBC’s Speak Now Thanksgiving Special (November 25, 2010), music videos (Long Live/Mean/Back to December/Sparks Fly/The Story of Us/Ours/I Can See You/Mine), Speak Now World Tour - Live album (November 21, 2011), 54th Annual Grammy Awards (February 12, 2012), 2010 American Music Awards, and Speak Now World Tour (The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[93] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[94] By April 2011, Speak Now had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[95] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[96] On August 10, 2011, Speak Now released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[97] She released the album Speak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[98] In December 2011, Speak Now announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012. Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries, and grossed $123.7 million.) (February 9, 2011 in Singapore-March 18, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand)), Red (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (the official leader, the greatest singer, the greatest dancer, the most famous member, the most iconic member, the “Taylor Alison Swift”, the most successful member, and the most famous member in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 22) (from 2012) (from the original Red studio album; engaged new producers to experiment with styles beyond the country pop sound of her past albums. The ensemble included Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. Red incorporates styles of pop, country, and rock, using acoustic instruments alongside electronic synths and drum machines) (October 22, 2012), Red (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (On June 18, 2021, Red released the cover art of Red (Taylor's Version) and initially announced that the re-recorded album would be released on November 19, 2021.[5] Alongside the announcement, pre-orders for the digital album were made available.[43] The cover depicts Red wearing red lipstick, a beige peacoat, and a burgundy-colored "Matti" fisherman velvet cap, seated in a vintage 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet convertible with an autumnal background. Janessa Leoné designed the cap which quickly sold out on Leoné's website.[44][45] The customized ring that Red wears on the cover was designed by one of Red's real-life friends.[46] On August 5, 2021, Red posted a video across her social media, teasing a word puzzle for the fans to solve; it spelled out "Chris Stapleton", "Phoebe Bridgers", "Babe", "Better Man", and "All Too Well Ten Minute Version".[47][48] Concurrently, pre-orders for the album's CDs went up on Red's website.[47] She posted the official track listing on August 6.; On September 30, Red announced Red (Taylor's Version) would be released on November 12, a week earlier than scheduled.[16] She used social media to release snippets of several re-recorded songs prior to the album release: "22" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" via an Instagram story on August 5,[47] "Red" via an Instagram video on October 24,[50] and "Babe" via Tumblr on November 11.[51] Via Republic Records, Red (Taylor's Version) was released for streaming, download, and physical formats of CD and vinyls including limited editions with customized merchandise for the retailors Target Corporation, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters.[52][53] In January 2022, five streaming "chapters" containing tracks from Red (Taylor's Version) were released: Could You Be the One Chapter, She Wrote a Song About Me Chapter, The Slow Motion Chapter, and From the Vault Chapter.; Starbucks partnered with Swift to commemorate the release of Red (Taylor's Version), which coincided with the company's "red cup holiday season".[56] The fitness equipment manufacturer Peloton announced an exclusive collaboration with Red to use songs from the album for their on-demand fitness classes.[57] Red promoted Red (Taylor's Version) via two NBC late-night talk shows, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, which aired back-to-back on November 11.[58] Concurrently with the album's release on November 12, she premiered All Too Well: The Short Film, which accompanied "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" and stars herself, Sadie Sink, and Dylan O'Brien; she also performed the song at the premiere.[59][60] The following day, she appeared as the musical guest and performed "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" on Saturday Night Live.[61] The song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest number-one song in history, surpassing the 8-minutes-and-37-seconds "American Pie" (1971) by Don McLean.[62] The vault tracks "I Bet You Think About Me" and "Message in a Bottle" were promoted as singles respectively to country radio and pop/adult contemporary radio formats) (November 12, 2021), All Too Well: The Short Film (November 12, 2021), music videos (Begin Again/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Red/22/Everything has changed (with Ed Sheeran)/I Knew You Were Trouble/We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together/All Too Well (10 Minute Version)), VH1 Storytellers: Taylor Swift episode (November 11, 2012), Promotion (On August 13, 2012, via a live webchat held on Google Hangouts,[67] Red announced the album's details and released the lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together",[68] which was her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.[69] An alternative version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was released to US country radio;[70] it spent 10 weeks atop Hot Country Songs.[71] Both the standard and deluxe versions of Red were released on October 22, 2012.[72] In the United States, the standard edition was available in digital and physical formats, and the deluxe edition containing six extra tracks was available exclusively for physical purchase at Target.[72] Red and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan for Red.[72] To increase sales, Swift had tie-ins with corporations including Starbucks, Keds, Walmart, Walgreens, and Papa John's.[72][73] A day after the release, she began a cycle of television appearances, which included Good Morning America (October 23), Late Show with David Letterman (October 23), The View (October 24), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 25), Katie (October 26), and 20/20 (October 26). She gave interviews to as many as 72 radio stations, mostly in the United States and some from South Africa, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, and Mexico.[72] Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards,[74] the Country Music Association Awards, and the American Music Awards. Red was promoted with further singles. From September 24 until the album's release date, Red previewed one album track each week via Good Morning America as part of a four-week countdown—"Begin Again", "Red", "I Knew You Were Trouble", and "State of Grace"; the first three songs were later released as singles. "Begin Again", released to US country radio on October 1, 2012,[79] peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on Country Airplay.[80] Released to US pop radio on November 27, 2012,[81] "I Knew You Were Trouble" spent seven weeks at number one on Pop Songs[82] and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 10 on charts of Australasian and European countries.[84] "Red" was released to US country radio on June 24, 2013. Other singles were "22","Everything Has Changed", and "The Last Time". Despite Red's promotion as a country album, its diverse musical styles sparked a media debate over Swift's status as a country artist. Spin argued Red was difficult to categorize because country music was "the most dynamically vibrant pop genre of the last decade or so".[90] Other critics commented Red had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop.[91] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Red responded that country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate: "I leave the genre labeling to other people.) songs (Treacherous/I almost do/The Last Time (with Gary Lightbody of The Snow Patrol)/22/holy ground/begin again/starlight/sad beautiful tragic/the lucky one/the moment I knew/girl at home/come back..be here/I Bet you think about me/better man/ronan/forever winter/nothing new (with Phoebe Bridgers)/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Run (with Ed Sheeran)/the very first night/Both of Us (with B.o.B)/Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)/State of Grace/Red/Stay Stay Stay/Highway Don’t Care (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban)/Babe/Message in a Bottle), First Brazil concert (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (September 13, 2012), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013 (December 31, 2012), 2013 NRJ Music Awards (January 26, 2013), 56th Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2014), 2012 American Music Awards, 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and The Red Tour (On October 26, 2012, she announced the first 58 dates for the North American leg, beginning in Omaha, Nebraska, visiting Canada and the United States throughout the spring and summer of 2013, and concluding in Nashville, Tennessee, in September.[93] To support a high demand, Red held the concerts mostly in sports arenas and stadiums.[92] After the North American leg, the Red Tour visited Australasia, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Red Tour was a box office success. The four shows at Staples Center in Los Angeles extended Swift's total of sold-out shows to 11, making her the solo artist with the most sold-out shows at Staples Center. She was the first female artist to sell out the Sydney Football Stadium since its opening in 1988. Tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within 60 seconds, setting the Chinese record for the fastest sellout.[96] When it ended in June 2014, the tour had grossed $150.2 million and became the highest-grossing tour by a country artist of all time.) (March 13, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States-June 12, 2014 in Singapore)), 1989 (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (the greatest multi-instrumentalist in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 24) (from 2014) (from the original 1989 studio album; Inspired by 1980s synth-pop, the production incorporates dense synthesizers, programmed drum machines, and processed electronic backing vocals—a stark contrast to the acoustic arrangements that had characterized 1989's past albums; titled after 1989’s birth year as a symbolic rebirth; The lyrics expand on her autobiographical songwriting about love and heartbreak, but they depict failed relationships from relatively lighthearted and more complex perspectives.) (October 27, 2014), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (October 27, 2023), Promotion (1989 marketed 1989 as her first "official pop" album. To bolster sales, 1989 and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan. As observed by Maryn Wilkinson, an academic specialized in media studies, 1989 adopted a "zany" aspect for her 1989 persona. As 1989 had been associated with a hardworking and authentic persona through her country songs, her venture to "artificial, manufactured" pop required intricate maneuvering to retain her sense of authenticity.[82] She used social media extensively to communicate with her fan base. To attract a younger audience, she had promoted her country songs online previously.[83] Her social media posts showcased her personal life, making fans feel engaged with her authentic self and thus cemented their support while attracting a new fan base besides her already large one. She also promoted the album through product endorsements with Subway, Keds, and Diet Coke.[84] 1989 held a live stream via Yahoo! sponsored by ABC News on August 18, where she announced the details of 1989 and released the lead single "Shake It Off", which debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100.[86] To connect further with her supporters, 1989 selected a number of fans based on their engagement on social media and invited them to private album-listening sessions called "the 1989 Secret Sessions".[83] They took place at her properties in Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville, Rhode Island, and London throughout September 2014. The album's standard and deluxe editions were released for download on digital platforms on October 27, 2014.[88] In the United States and Canada, the deluxe edition was available exclusively through Target Corporation. The songs "Out of the Woods" and "Welcome to New York" were released through the iTunes Store as promotional singles on October 14 and 20, respectively.[90] 1989 was supported by a string of commercially successful singles,[91] including Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, and top-10 hits "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".[92] Other singles were "Out of the Woods", previously a promotional single,[93] and "New Romantics".[94] The deluxe edition bonus tracks, which had been available exclusively through Target, were released on the US iTunes Store in 2015. On November 3, 2014, 1989 removed her entire catalog from Spotify, the largest on-demand streaming service at the time, arguing that their ad-supported free service undermined the platform's premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters.[96] She had written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in July 2014, expressing her concerns over the decline of the album as an economic entity following the rise of free, on-demand streaming.[97] Big Machine and 1989 kept 1989 only on paid subscription-required platforms such as Rhapsody and Beats Music.[80] This move prompted an industry-wide debate on the impact of streaming on declining record sales during the digital era. In June 2015, 1989 stated that she would remove 1989 from Apple Music, criticizing the service for not offering royalties to artists during their free three-month trial period.[98] After Apple Music announced that it would pay artists royalties during the free trial period, she agreed to leave 1989 on their service; she then featured in a series of commercials for Apple Music.[99][100] She re-added her entire catalog on Spotify in June 2017. In addition to online promotion, 1989 made many appearances on radio and television.[80] She performed at awards shows including the MTV Video Music Awards[104] and the American Music Awards. Her appearances on popular television talk shows included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America.[80] She was part of the line-up for the iHeartRadio Music Festival,[106] CBS Radio's "We Can Survive" benefit concert,[107] the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[108] and the Jingle Ball Tour.), The Ellen DeGeneres Show appearance (October 27, 2014), CBS Radio's We Can Survive benefit concert (October 24, 2014), 1989 Secret Session with iHeartRadio (October 27, 2014), The 1989 World Tour Live concert film (December 13, 2015), songs (Welcome to New York/say don’t go/all you had to do was stay/I wish you would/how you get the girl/wonderland/you are in love/suburban legends/now that we don’t talk/sweeter than fiction/Is It Over Now?/Slut!/New Romantics/Clean/This Love), music videos (Shake It Off/Wildest Dreams/Bad Blood/Style/New Romantics/Out of the Woods/Blank Space), iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 (December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, United States-December 22, 2014 in Tampa, Florida, United States), Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode (October 23, 2014), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve 2015 (December 31, 2014), 2014 American Music Awards, 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards (March 29, 2015), 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival (September 19, 2014 and September 20, 2014), her character of Rosemary in The Giver movie (August 15, 2014), 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after party (February 15, 2015), 2015 BRIT Awards (February 25, 2015), Grammy Museum at L.A. Live (September 30, 2015), Super Saturday Night (February 4, 2017), Diet Coke commercial (2014), The 1989 World Tour (1989 invited various special guests on tour with her, including singers and fashion models the media called 1989's "squad" which received media coverage.[112] The 1989 World Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2015, earning over $250 million at the box office.[113] In North America alone, the tour grossed $181.5 million, setting the record for highest-grossing US tour by a woman.[114] 1989 (later Reputation) broke this record in 2018 with her Reputation Stadium Tour.) (May 5, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan-December 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia), 58th Annual Grammy Awards (February 15, 2016), Formula 1 United States Grand Prix concert (October 22, 2016), and 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show)), Reputation (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 27) (from 2017) (from the Reputation studio album; a response to the media scrutiny on her private life and public image after her previous album, 1989 (2014), propelled her toward global stardom; Inspired by Reputation's romantic relationships and tarnished media image caused by celebrity disputes, the songs on Reputation altogether form a linear narrative about a protagonist expressing anger and vengeance against wrongdoers and finding solace in a blossoming love; an electropop and R&B album with elements of urban styles such as hip hop, trap, and EDM; Reputation opted out of television and press interviews to promote Reputation. Before the album's release, she cleared out her website and social media accounts, which generated widespread media attention; Its densely arranged electronic sound is characterized by programmed drum machines, pulsating synthesizers and bass, and manipulated vocals) (November 10, 2017), Promotion (On August 18, 2017, Reputation blanked out all of her social media accounts,[78] which prompted media speculation on new music.[79] In the following days, she uploaded silent short videos of CGI snakes onto social media, which attracted widespread press attention.[79][80][81] Imagery of snakes was inspired by the West–Kardashian controversy and featured prominently in the album's promotional campaign.[82] On August 23, she announced on Instagram the title Reputation and released the cover artwork.[83] Photographed by Mert and Marcus,[84] the cover is a black-and-white photograph of an expressionless Reputation in slicked-back hair, a loose-fitting grey sweatshirt with a zig-zag stitch on the right shoulder, and a choker necklace.[85] Her name is printed multiple times over one side of her face, in a typeface resembling that used in newspapers.[86] Media outlets interpreted the design as a mockery at the media scrutiny.[g] The cover inspired many internet memes and was listed among the worst album covers of 2017 by Billboard and Exclaim!.[90] The latter dismissed it as a "packaging for a sickly sweet, heavily discounted celebrity fragrance you'd find on the back shelf at Shoppers Drug Mart".[91] Reputation's lead single, "Look What You Made Me Do", was released on August 24.[92] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in just its second week of charting, with the biggest single-week sales and streaming figures of 2017 in the United States[93] and was Reputation's first number one on the UK Singles Chart;[94] its music video broke the record for the most 24-hour views on YouTube.[95] Shortly after the single's release, UPS announced a partnership with Reputation, which included Reputation-branded trucks and award-winning contests promoting the album across US cities.[96] Other corporate tie-ins were a Ticketmaster partnership for a concert tour; an AT&T deal for a behind-the-scenes series chronicling the making of Reputation; and a Target partnership for two deluxe album editions, each featuring an exclusive magazine with poetry, paintings, handwritten lyrics, and behind-the-scenes photography.[97][98] Reputation collaborated with ESPN to preview the second single, "...Ready for It?", during a college football match on September 2;[99] it opened at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake." Prior to the album's release, the tracks "Gorgeous" and "Call It What You Want" were released for download and streaming as promotional singles,[101] and the track "New Year's Day" premiered during the broadcast of an episode of ABC's Scandal.[102] Reputation was released in various territories on digital and physical formats on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records.[103] Although the streaming provider Spotify initially promoted Reputation on its playlists and commercial billboards, Reputation and Big Machine kept the album off streaming platforms until December 1. Throughout late 2017 and early 2018, a string of singles were released to support the album: "End Game" was released to French radio by Mercury Records on November 14,[106] "New Year's Day" impacted US country radio on November 27,[107] and "Delicate" was released to US pop radio on March 12.[108] The last of which was the album's most successful radio single,[5] peaking atop three Billboard airplay charts: Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary.; Although Reputation had actively promoted albums with extensive press interviews and television appearances, she opted out of such a campaign for Reputation.[110] She instead held exclusive secret album-listening sessions within one month in advance for fans selected from social media by herself, hosting them at her homes in Rhode Island, Los Angeles, London, and Nashville.[110] The secret sessions were reserved for 500 fans in total; behind-the-scenes footage was released on Good Morning America on November 7, 2017.[102] She appeared on the cover for British Vogue, for which she appointed her own photographers and published a self-written poem instead of giving an interview.[111] In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music in May 2019, Reputation said she turned down interviews because she felt no need to explain the album and used music as the only medium to convey her thoughts and feelings. On the title's all lowercase styling, she said it was because the album "wasn't unapologetically commercial"—that it "took the most amount of explanation, and yet it's the one [she] didn't talk about". Within Reputation's first release week, Reputation performed on Saturday Night Live ("...Ready for It?", "Call It What You Want") and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ("New Year's Day").), Saturday Night Live episode (November 11, 2017), Taylor Swift sexual assault trial (with David Mueller) (August 14, 2017), 2018 American Music Awards, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon episode (November 14, 2017), music videos (I don’t wanna live forever (with Zayn)/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/…Ready for It?/Look What You Made Me Do/Delicate), songs (gorgeous/dancing with our hands tied/don’t blame me/dress/call it what you want/this is why we can’t have nice things/king of my heart/so it goes/New Year’s Day/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/King of My Heart/Getaway Car), Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour concert film (December 31, 2018), and Reputation Stadium Tour (it featured supporting acts such as Charli XCX and Camila Cabello.[114] The tour's visual and stage settings incorporated prominent snakes imagery.[115] It encompassed 53 shows across four continents and wrapped up on November 21, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan.[116] The track "Getaway Car" was released as an Australasia-exclusive single to support the Oceanic leg of the Reputation tour in October and November. On completion of its 38-show North American leg, with $266.1 million grosed, it surpassed the Rolling Stones' 70-show US leg of their A Bigger Bang Tour ($245 million; 2005–2007) to become the all-time highest-grossing North American tour.[118] In total, the Reputation Stadium Tour grossed $345.7 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.[119] The second show at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was recorded and released as a Netflix exclusive on December 31, 2018.) (May 8, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-November 21, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan)), Lover (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 29) (from 2019) (from the Lover studio album; first album after her departure from Big Machine Records, which caused a public dispute over the ownership of Lover's past albums; a "love letter to love", the album explores wide-ranging emotions like infatuation, commitment, lust, and heartache; a few songs discuss political issues such as LGBT rights and feminism. The production incorporates a 1980s-inspired electropop, pop rock, and synth-pop sound characterized by atmospheric synthesizers, mid-tempo rhythms, and acoustic instruments, with eclectic elements of country, folk, and funk; Lover extensively promoted Lover through television shows, magazine covers, and press interviews. Lover's cover art and visual aesthetic feature bright pastel colors) (August 23, 2019), Promotion (Whereas Lover avoided social media and public appearances during promotion of Reputation, she embarked on an extensive promotional campaign for Lover on social media, televised events, and press interviews. Media speculation on Lover's follow-up to Reputation arose when she appeared at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where she was adorned with butterfly motifs and pastel tones, the aesthetic she later used in her clothing for public appearances.[79] Her social media posts showed her outgoing, comfortable persona, departing from the dark, antagonistic image she adopted for Reputation. Lover conducted interviews with publications including Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, where she openly spoke about her adjusted personal life.[80] A few weeks before the album's release, Lover invited a select group of fans to private Secret Sessions listening parties in London, Nashville, and Los Angeles; she had hosted similar sessions for 1989 and Reputation.[81] She also gave interviews on the American morning television programs CBS Sunday Morning and Good Morning America,[82] and the talk shows The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Swift promoted Lover with corporate tie-ins and promotional deals, including a merchandise deal with Capital One, airplay deals with SiriusXM and iHeartMedia, a deal with YouTube Music with Lover hosting a live stream on the platform, an Amazon deal featuring images of Lover on packaging and an exclusive concert for Amazon Prime users, and a Target Corporation deal to distribute four deluxe editions of Lover on CD; the deluxe editions were also available on Swift's website.[78] Each deluxe edition contains a CD with two bonus audio memos, a blank journal, a poster and different bonus content of Lover's old journal entries and photos.[86] She also collaborated with the English fashion designer Stella McCartney on a limited-edition merchandise collection. Lover was released on both digital and physical formats on August 23, 2019, through Republic Records;[78] it was her first album after ending her 12-year contract with Big Machine Records, her first released on streaming from its first week, and the first whose master recording she owned. Leading up to the release, Lover was involved in a public dispute over the ownership of her Big Machine Records albums' master recordings. In a social media post on June 30, 2019, after Big Machine had been acquired by manager Scooter Braun, Lover accused the label of having neglected her desire to acquire the master recordings and called the deal with Braun, whom she deemed an "incessant, manipulative [bully]", the "worst-case scenario".[79] After Lover was released, Lover began implementing her plan to re-record her past albums. Lover performed on many televised shows, starting with a performance of "Me!" with Brendon Urie at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on May 1. She again performed the song with Urie on The Voice, and alone on Germany's Next Topmodel,[89] The Graham Norton Show, and the French version of The Voice. At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won three awards, Lover opened the show with a medley of "You Need to Calm Down" and "Lover".[92] Swift later performed Lover songs on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Saturday Night Live,[94] NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert, the Jingle Bell Ball 2019 in London, and iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball in New York City. She also promoted the album on Nippon TV's Sukkiri Morning Show in Tokyo and at the Singles' Day Countdown Gala by Alibaba Group in Shanghai. At the 2019 American Music Awards, at which Lover was honored as the Artist of the Decade, she performed a medley of "The Man", "Lover", and her past singles. On May 17, 2020, ABC aired a concert special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, which was filmed at her September 2019 one-off concert in Paris.[101] Lover planned to embark on a worldwide festival and concert tour titled Lover Fest, which was due to begin in mid-2020 and included four shows in the United States, ten shows in Europe, and two shows in Brazil. It was officially cancelled in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Lover (Live from Paris) live album (May 19, 2020), Alibaba Singles’ Day Gala (November 11, 2019), her character of Bombalurina in Cats movie adaptation based on Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (December 16, 2019), Saturday Night Live episode (October 5, 2019), Strictly Come Dancing finale (December 14, 2019), Amazon Prime Day concert (July 10, 2019), City of Lover one-off concert (September 9, 2019), Miss Americana Netflix documentary (January 23, 2020), 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (August 26, 2019), American Music Awards of 2019 (November 24, 2019), Capital One Savor commercial (July 26, 2019), Taylor Swift masters dispute (with Big Machine Records, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun) (June 30, 2019), One World: Together at Home benefit concert (April 18, 2020), 2019 Billboard Music Awards, Tiny Desk concerts episode (October 28, 2019), We Can Survive benefit concert (October 19, 2019), music videos (Lover/You Need To Calm Down/Me (with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)/The Man), and songs (daylight/Beautiful Ghosts/cruel summer/I forgot that you existed/paper rings/the archer/London boy/death by a thousand cuts/Only the Young/Soon You’ll Get Better (with The Chicks)/I think he knows/False God/it’s nice to have a friend/Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince/Cornelia Street)), Folklore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Folklore pandemic surprise studio album; Conceived during quarantine in early 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Folklore explores themes of escapism, nostalgia, and romanticism. Using a set of characters and story arcs to depict fictional narratives, it departs from the autobiographical songwriting that had characterized Folklore's past albums. Experimenting with new musical styles for Folklore, Folklore consists of mellow ballads driven by piano, strings, and muted percussion; The album's title was inspired by the lasting legacy of folktales, and its visual aesthetic adopts cottagecore) (July 24, 2020), Promotion (Folklore was a surprise album. It marked the first time Folklore abandoned her traditional album rollout, opting to release suddenly due to intuition; she stated, "If you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world." She unveiled the album via her social media on July 23, 2020, 16 hours prior to its release to digital music platforms at midnight. Swift informed Republic Records about the new album only a few hours before its release, thus it was not widely and immediately available at retail.[111] Deluxe CDs and vinyl LPs with seven other alternate covers were sold exclusively on Folklore's website. The standard edition "In the Trees" CDs of Folklore were released to retail on August 7, 2020, while "Meet Me Behind the Mall" CDs were made exclusive to Target. In the United Kingdom, CDs were made available on August 4, 2020, by EMI Records. The formerly physically exclusive Folklore deluxe, featuring the bonus track "The Lakes", was released to digital platforms on August 18, 2020. Starting on August 20, 2020, a limited number of autographed Folklore CDs were delivered to various indie record shops in the US and Scotland to support small businesses in the pandemic.[116][117] Folklore mailed her Folklore cardigans to celebrity friends and well-wishers.[118] Four six-song compilations of Folklore tracks were released to streaming, based on the thematic cohesion between them; The Escapism Chapter, The Sleepless Nights Chapter, The Saltbox House Chapter and The Yeah I Showed Up at Your Party Chapter were released in August–September 2020. Folklore's earlier future ninth studio album, Evermore, is a sequel to Folklore. She dubbed them "sister albums".) Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions Disney+ concert film (It was directed and produced by Folklore, seeing her perform all the tracks of Folklore in an intimate setting at Long Pond Studio, and sharing the stories behind the songs, with Antonoff and Dessner.[16] Alongside the film's premiere, Folklore's third live album, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (From the Disney+ Special), containing the acoustic versions from the film, was released to streaming platforms) (November 25, 2020), Capital One "Cardigan" commercial (November 9, 2020), songs (the 1/this is me trying/my tears ricochet/mirrorball/illicit affairs/mad woman/invisible string/epiphany/seven/peace/hoax/august/the lakes/The Last Great American Dynasty/Cardigan/Exile (with Bon Iver)/Betty), and music video (Cardigan)), Evermore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Evermore pandemic surprise studio album; an offshoot of "the folklorian woods"—an escapist, cottagecore-inspired direction she first ideated with Folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic; she regards them as sister albums. Evermore blends alternative rock, indie folk, and chamber pop styles, carried by fingerpicked guitars, somber pianos, lavish strings, and sparse percussion; Impressionist storytelling and mythopoeia dominate its lyrical technique. The subject matter has been described as an anthology of tales about love, marriage, infidelity, and grief, exploring the complexities of human emotion) (December 11, 2020), Promotion (Evermore was released on December 11, 2020, two days before Swift's 31st birthday, to digital music and streaming platforms only. It is a "sister album" to Folklore, which was launched less than five months prior; both of them are surprise albums announced 16 hours prior to their midnight releases. Evermore marked the second time Evermore abandoned her long, traditional album rollout. The CDs were released on December 18, 2020. The bonus tracks of Evermore deluxe edition, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time to Go", which were formerly physical-exclusive, were released to streaming services on January 7, 2021. Cassette tapes and vinyl LPs of Evermore were released on February 21, and May 28, 2021, respectively. Billboard reported that the delayed release of the album's physical formats is owed to its surprise release and the time-consuming manufacturing process of physical albums, specifically the vinyl copies. Limited number of autographed CDs were sold at select independent record stores. On December 14, 2020, Evermore appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the album. On a December 2020 episode of Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney revealed that Evermore originally decided to postpone the release of Evermore by one week to respect the original December 11 release date of his eighteenth studio album, McCartney III; upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on December 18 instead so that Evermore could move forward with her Evermore rollout as initially planned. Three six-song compilations consisting of tracks from both Evermore and Folklore, titled The Dropped Your Hand While Dancing Chapter, The Forever Is The Sweetest Con Chapter, and The Ladies Lunching Chapter (all stylized in all lowercase), were released to streaming platforms on January 21, January 27, and February 4, 2021, respectively), 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (March 14, 2021), music video (Willow), and songs (champagne problems/gold rush/‘tis the damn season/happiness/ivy/closure/it’s time to go/dorothea/long story short/cowboy like me/right where you left me/Coney Island (with The National)/No Body, No Crime (with Haim)/Marjorie/Evermore (with Bon Iver)/tolerate it/Carolina)), Midnights (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 32) (from 2022) (from the Midnights studio album; a concept album about nocturnal ruminations inspired by her sleepless nights. The autobiographical songwriting explores broad emotions such as regrets, self-criticism, fantasies, heartbreak, and infatuation, using confessional yet cryptic lyrics that allude to her personal life and public image; features a subdued electronic soundscape, characterized by mid-tempo rhythms, analog synthesizers, sparse drum machine beats, and digitally manipulated vocals; classify the album as synth-pop, electropop, dream pop, and bedroom pop, infused with electronica, hip hop, R&B, and alternative elements) (October 21, 2022), Promotion (Midnights extensively used social media to promote Midnights.[1][12] After the announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards, Midnights's website and the canvases of her songs on Spotify were updated with images of a clock.[96] Using the video-sharing platform TikTok, from September 21 to October 7, 2022, she released a 13-episode video series called Midnights Mayhem with Me, where she announced the title of each track in a randomized order per episode. In each episode, Midnights rolled a lottery cage containing 13 ping pong balls numbered from 1 to 13, each representing a track of the album, and when a ball dropped out, she disclosed the title of the corresponding track through a telephone. On October 17, Midnights posted on her social media an itinerary titled Midnights Manifest, which included promotional events she had planned. Swift partnered with Spotify to display some lyrics from Midnights on billboards in five cities: New York, London, São Paulo, Nashville, and Mexico City. Another partnership with Apple Fitness+ included three exercise programs designed around Midnights's music, featuring tracks from Midnights. Although Midnights extensively promoted Midnights and announced multiple release pre-orders, she did not conduct press interviews or preview music prior to the album's release. Republic Records released Midnights on October 21, 2022. The standard edition was made available for streaming, download, cassette, four CD variants, and four vinyl LP variants. Target stores exclusively sold a Lavender Edition on CD and vinyl LP, and Capital One distributed a box set that contained the CD and a Swift-branded T-shirt. The 3am Edition was surprise-released onto streaming and digital services three hours after the standard edition. From October 21 to 26, iHeartRadio aired a program called iHeartRadio Brings You Midnights with Taylor, which featured tracks from the album and stories behind the songs told by Midnights herself. Midnights appeared, but did not perform, on the talk shows The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 24 and The Graham Norton Show on October 28.; The lead single, "Anti-Hero", was released on October 21, 2022. In the United States, it became the best-selling song of 2022 and made Swift the first artist to have a number-one song on the Radio Songs chart in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s decades. "Bejeweled" and "Question...?" were released for limited-time digital download exclusively through Midnights's website on October 25 as promotional singles. Republic Records released "Lavender Haze" to US radio as the second single on November 29, 2022, and "Karma" as the third on May 1, 2023. A remix of "Karma" featuring the rapper Ice Spice was released on May 26, 2023. On the Billboard Hot 100, "Anti-Hero" reached number one, and both "Lavender Haze" and "Karma" peaked at number two. Media publications commented on the promotion for Midnights. Unterberger and Slate's Chris Molanphy described it as a middle ground between a traditional album rollout and the surprise-release strategy of Folklore and Evermore. Molanphy argued that Midnights employed an optimal promotion for every consumption metric: the multiple CD and LP offers would boost physical sales, the limited-time download tracks would increase digital sales, and the surprise 3am Edition release would prompt higher streams.[119] The fact that there were no pre-release singles prompted speculation on the album's sound and content. El País described it as an "art of suspense".[120] In The Washington Post, Emily Yahr wrote that the TikTok tracklist reveal prompted Midnights's fans to interpret possible Easter eggs, which resulted in a "frenzy" and boosted the anticipation for the album), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film (October 13, 2023), Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy, her character of Elizabeth Meekins in Amsterdam thriller movie (October 7, 2022), Capital One Venture X "Multiple Taylors" commercial (November 1, 2022), New York University honorary degree Doctorate of Fine Arts ceremony (May 18, 2022), the original The Eras Tour (To support Midnights and her other albums, Midnights embarked on the Eras Tour, which she described as retrospective journey through her "musical eras".[122] Running from March 2023 to December 2024, the tour spanned 149 dates and visited five continents once it concluded. Ticketmaster cancelled its US public on-sale due to insufficient inventory, which led to a debacle highly debated in the press. After the first 60 shows in 2023, the Eras Tour grossed over $1 billion, becoming the first tour to do so and the highest-grossing concert tour in history.[126] While Midnights was on tour, a Til Dawn Edition of Midnights containing the bonus track "Hits Different" was released to digital platforms, and a Late Night Edition containing the bonus track "You're Losing Me" was sold as concert-exclusive merchandise starting from the East Rutherford show on May 26, 2023) (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-March 9, 2024 in Singapore) (including the 10th and final act "Midnights" in each concert; The Eras Tour only had Midnights performing all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then)), songs (The Great War/Hits Different/bigger than the whole sky/you’re on your own, kid/high infidelity/glitch/paris/labyrinth/bejeweled/maroon/mastermind/Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve/Dear Reader/snow on the beach (with Lana Del Rey)/Anti-Hero/Question….?/Lavender Haze/You’re losing me (from the vault)/Sweet Nothing), and music videos (Anti-Hero/Lavender Haze/Karma (with Ice Spice)), and TTPD (she/her) (singer and dancer) (age 34) (from 2024) (from the The Tortured Poets Department double studio album; a "lifeline" songwriting project amidst the heightened fame and media scrutiny ensuing from The Eras Tour. The songs introspect on her public and private lives, detailing tumult and sorrow via motifs of self-awareness, mourning, anger, humor, and delusion; is a minimalist synth-pop, folk-pop, and chamber pop effort with rock and country stylings. The composition is largely mid-tempo, driven by a mix of synthesizers and drum machines with piano and guitar, whereas the visual aesthetic draws mainly from dark academia; both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology; The lack of an apostrophe in the official title, as in The Tortured Poets' Department, was the subject of a debate over grammatical correctness. Scholars stated that TTPD employed Tortured Poets as an attributive noun, as in the case with the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society, and not as a possessive noun that warrants an apostrophe. The cover artwork, photographed by Beth Garrabrant, is a black-and-white glamor photo shot of TTPD lying on a bed wearing black lingerie: a see-through top and high waist shorts, from the Row and Yves Saint Laurent. Both the artwork and title were parodied by numerous brands, organizations, sports teams, and franchises, and inspired numerous memes. Media outlets described the album's visual aesthetic as gothic, especially dark academia) (April 19, 2024), Promotion (After the Grammy announcement, TTPD revealed the standard track listing via social media on February 6, 2024. TTPD announced four physical editions that were each titled after a corresponding bonus track: "The Manuscript", "The Bolter", "The Albatross", and "The Black Dog"; she announced the latter three editions during the Australian and Singaporean shows of the Eras Tour. She partnered with Target for an exclusive "Phantom Clear" collector's vinyl edition. The album was promoted on digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads, prompting Swifties to search for Easter eggs.[86] It included five Swift-curated Apple Music playlists containing her old songs inspired by the five stages of grief; a pop-up library of curated articles at The Grove, Los Angeles, hosted by Spotify;[88] QR code murals in various cities worldwide that led to unlisted YouTube shorts on TTPD's channel; a countdown to the album's release revealed upon refreshing TTPD's Instagram profile; and special shimmer effects on Threads posts tagged with hashtags related to TTPD and the album. iHeartRadio and Sirius XM announced special programs with exclusive content from TTPD to celebrate the album's release; the former temporarily rebranded as "iHeartTaylor".; The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, 2024. A double album edition, subtitled The Anthology and containing 15 bonus tracks, was surprise-released digitally two hours later. Two days earlier, the standard edition of the album was leaked, which resulted in the phrase "Taylor Swift leak" being temporarily banned from searches on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The Tortured Poets Department was available in 19 physical variants—nine CD, six vinyl, and four cassette variants, with deluxe CDs and cassettes being exclusive to TTPD's official website.[97] Physical copies of the album included an original poem by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. "Fortnight" was released as the lead single in conjunction with the album, accompanied by a music video. Universal Music released "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" to Italian radio on July 2. The Anthology was released onto vinyl and CD formats on November 29. From May 2024, starting with the Paris shows, TTPD revamped the set list of the Eras Tour to include songs from The Tortured Poets Department in a new act, which she informally described as "Female Rage the Musical". She released live versions of certain songs as bonus tracks on the physical album via her website exclusively to US customers. Other limited editions of the physical album included acoustic versions of five tracks. Limited digital variants contained first draft phone demo recordings of four tracks, and the Eras Tour live recordings of some tracks from the Paris, Stockholm, Lyon, and London shows. The release of bonus-track versions was a way for Swift and her fans to maintain the album's number-one position on the charts, a method TTPD and other artists have previously utilized to boost album sales and chart positions), music videos (Fortnight (with Post Malone)/I Can Do It with a Broken Heart), the updated The Eras Tour (May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) (including brand new act "The Tortured Poets Department" between "1989" act and "Acoustic Set" (The Eras Tour only had TTPD performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), Super Bowl LVII appearance (with Travis Kelce) (February 11, 2024), 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (April 1, 2024), The Eras Tour Book (became the year's best-selling book with a over a million copies sold within a week in the US alone; is a coffee table book available only through Target that includes visual highlights from Midnights and TTPD’s both respective versions of The Eras Tour, which kicked off March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and ends December 8, 2024, in Vancouver. The book includes more than 500 pictures, including never-released behind-the-scenes images. It also details insider information about the tour, such as how long it takes to set up the stage for each tour stop, how she gets into the concert venue without being detected, and how the crew operated the Roomba-like device TTPD swished around the stage on) (November 29, 2024), 66th Annual Grammy Awards (February 4, 2024), 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, and songs (Loml/I can fix him (no really I can)/Imgonnagetyouback/Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus/How did it end?/I look in people’s windows/the prophecy/down bad/the smallest man who ever lived/the alchemy/I hate it here/cassandra/robin/the manuscript/the albatross/the alchemy/peter/the bolter/so high school/my boy only breaks his favorite toys/Guilty As Sin?/The Tortured Poets Department/Florida!!! (with Florence and the Machine)/The Black Dog/So Long, London/Thank You aImee/Who’s Afraid of the Little Old Me/I Can Do It With A Broken Heart/Clara Bow)). Debut plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Fearless plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Speak Now plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, Red plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, 1989 plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Reputation plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Lover plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, folklore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, evermore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Midnights plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, and TTPD is the only Taylor Alison Swift to not play any instruments!](https://media.fanfics.com/5701b6e0-a20f-4aca-b6b4-193ebf598928-thumbnail.jpg)
**The Eras Residency**
![“The Eras Residency” Wattpad fanfiction even even even even even more detailed and even even even even even longer accurate Prologue that I wrote everything exactly. Add every single even even even even even more detailed detail I wrote everything exactly from top to bottom. 100% accurate of my fanfiction. During the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble and the development of The Eras Residency, all 11 Taylors stayed in The Eras House. The Eras Residency is based on The Eras Tour (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The Eras Residency is taken place at Las Vegas, Nevada, United States at The Colosseum Theater at The Caesars Palace. The Eras Residency will feature every single song that all 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD) have sung individually before in all their original respective individual years prior to The Eras Residency and brand new songs exclusively self-written and self-produced by The Taylor Swift Ensemble for The Eras Residency. The Eras Residency will have no cancelations and no errors and no mention of performers forgetting words, off-key notes, dance moves, and instrumental parts and no mention of a nearly missing sound checks, rehearsals, performances, and concerts just like they did in all their original respective years. The Eras Residency will include The Starlights (the fearsome foursome not only do background vocals, they also have a choreography for each performance, making them both band members and dancers. Kamilah Marshall Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Melanie Nyema Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Eliotte Nicole Woodford Position: Background Vocalist. Jeslyn Gorman Position: Background Vocalist; Taylor Swift's backing vocalists and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing vocalists), The Agency (Amos J. Heller Bass Guitar, Vocals Paul Sidoti Guitar, Vocals Mike Meadows Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals David Cook Musical Director, Keyboard Matt Billingslea Drums Max Bernstein Guitar, Keyboard Karina DiPiano Keyboard; Taylor Swift's backing band and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing band), and backing dancers. All these three groups are not part of The Taylor Swift Ensemble despite participating in The Eras Residency. Swifties will come to see The Taylor Swift Ensemble wearing friendship bracelets and sing along and dance along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble, just like they did with Midnights herself, who performed all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then, in March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona-March 9, 2024 in Singapore and with TTPD herself, who performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), in May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia respectively in both respective versions of The Eras Tour. Consisting of 149 shows across five continents, the Eras Tour had a broad cultural and socioeconomic impact, becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first to earn over $2 billion in revenue. Midnights designated the tour as a retrospective tribute to all of her studio albums and their corresponding musical "eras". Running over 3.5 hours, the set list consisted of over 40 songs grouped into 10 acts that portrayed each album's mood and aesthetic. The show was revamped in May 2024 to incorporate her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights herself became TTPD. Critics praised The Eras Tour for its concept, production, aesthetics and immersive ambience, as well as Midnights and TTPD's vocals, stage presence, and versatile showmanship. The tour recorded unprecedented public demand, ticket sales and attendances, bolstering economies, businesses, and tourism worldwide, dominating social media and news cycles, and garnering tributes and accolades from governments and organizations. This also gave rise to multifarious issues: ticketing crashes that inspired a string of anti-scalping laws and price regulation policies; scrutiny of Ticketmaster for monopoly by US authorities; diplomatic tensions in Southeast Asia due to Singapore's exclusivity grant; poor venue management in Rio de Janeiro resulting in a death; a failed ISIS plot to attack the tour in Vienna; and a political scandal in the UK. TTPD disclosed and released various works throughout the tour: the re-recorded albums Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version); editions of Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department; the music videos of "Karma", "I Can See You", and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"; and "Cruel Summer" as a single. An accompanying concert film (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), documenting the Los Angeles shows, was released to theaters worldwide on October 13, 2023, in an uncommon distribution deal circumventing major film studios. Met with critical acclaim, the film became the highest-grossing concert film in history. On November 29, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour book was released. It spotlights the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour concert from start to finish. The hardcover book features over 500 images, including never-before-seen performance photos from every era as well as exclusive rehearsal photos and behind-the-scenes images of instruments, costumes, set pieces and designer sketches used throughout the tour. The book also includes personal reflections and notes written by TTPD herself about her experience on the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. On December 13, 2024 (Taylor Swift's 35th birthday), Taylor Nation (her in-house marketing and public relations company) launched Taylor Swift Eras Archives. The archives site features features eight videos of behind-the-scenes footage from several music videos over the last four years, including “Fortnight,” “Karma,” “I Can See You,” “Bejeweled,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Cardigan.” (The footage was originally shown during the Eras Tour pre-show right after the doors opened) and behind-the-scenes videos seen during the pre-show of the Eras Tour for fans who arrived when doors opened including, "Bejeweled," "Lover," "Cardigan," and "Fortnight." All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts were born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts are Sagittarius. All 11 Taylors are the same exact person: the real Taylor Alison Swift herself. All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (16-year old Debut, 18-year old Fearless, 20-year old Speak Now, 22-year old Red, 24-year old 1989, 27-year old Reputation, 29-year old Lover, 30-year old Folklore, 30-year old Evermore, 32-year old Midnights, and 34-year old TTPD) are all 5’9 1/4”. All 11 Taylors are the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years because they come from blue time travel Time Machine portals on April 19, 2025 and they never age at all. All 11 Taylors hadn't been together before in all their original respective individual years at all. Each concert of The Eras Residency will run four hours long. The Eras Residency will have no pre-recorded and no lip-syncing. The Taylor Swift Ensemble was officially formed on April 19, 2025, the same day as the first anniversary of the release of The Tortured Poets Department double studio album (both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology) by TTPD as all 11 Taylors appeared from blue time travel Time Machine portals that day (April 19, 2025). Promotion started on April 19, 2025. The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was formed on April 19, 2025 (the same day as the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble). All four friendships/relationships were formed when both The Taylor Swift Ensemble and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club were formed: Debtless (Debut and Fearless), 198nights (1989 and Midnights), Lovertation (Reputation and Lover), and Folkmore (Folklore and Evermore). All 11 Taylors learned singing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), dancing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), and instrumentals (except TTPD, who is a only non instrumentalist) during the training sessions from September 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts previously had rehearsals of The Eras Residency for two months from October 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025. Swiftmania phenomenon (which impacted seismic activities, tailgating, tourism, economy, universities, colleges, fashion etc) began on March 17, 2023 (the opening date of The Eras Tour) and ended on December 8, 2026 (the ending date of The Eras Residency). The Eras Residency's premiere will happen on December 8, 2025, a year after The Eras Tour ended at BC Place in Vancouver and end on December 8, 2026 after a one year run and The Taylor Swift Ensemble will be permanently disbanded after both the chaos and tensions increased constantly and all four relationships broke up. After the audience left the venue when all 11 Taylors were yelling and screaming, all 11 Taylors would start to only grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) and only destroy each and every single actual different specific random musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers). The disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble is the same day (December 8, 2026) as the grand finale of The Eras Residency ended at 4:30 PM on December 8, 2026. Only the grand finale show on December 8, 2026 unfolds with a bittersweet mixture of joy and sorrow. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the official permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). In the grand finale show on December 8, 2026, each Taylor delivers a heartfelt tribute, reflecting on the beauty and tragedy of their journey. However, the emotional weight becomes too much for The Taylor Swift Ensemble to bear. After the audience left immediately before the chaos started, All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), while yelling and screaming, only really grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, all the mixers, and all the amplifiers) and only really destroy every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) during the destruction without an audience on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and they are no longer friends, no longer sisters, and no longer a family and all four relationships (Debut and Fearless, 1989 and Midnights, Reputation and Lover, and Folklore and Evermore) broken and divorces and all 11 Taylors lost all the fans permanently and there are no more fans and just the same person and no final song and no farewell and all 11 Taylors will never sing, dance, see, talk, or share together ever again (even online, send letters, write messages etc) forever on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and channels including YouTube, websites, and social media accounts including on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook have been deleted permanently and all 11 Taylors went back to all their original respective years, now losing memories of The Eras Residency and everything related to The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and losing progress of lessons learned during The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and forgetting The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and went back to everything related to all their original respective years despite being the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years, using blue original respective time travel Time Machine portals and then The Taylor Swift Ensemble was erased from existence on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and all videos, photos, and audio of The Eras Residency have been erased on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). Both the releases of The Eras Residency: The Movie concert film and The Eras Residency Live! live album (both scheduled to release on December 31, 2026) were both canceled as a result of the chaos. The Taylor Swift Ensemble's material was forever destroyed, wiped, and erased. The Eras House was now demolished and gone forever on December 8, 2026 that same day after The Taylor Swift Ensemble was disbanded. Both the spirit and the essence of The Taylor Swift Ensemble were gone and would never be echoed and would never linger on everybody on Earth forever. Promotion ended on December 8, 2026. No more possibilities of unexpected reconciliations, chapters, reunions, plans, new music (both collective and individual), activities, legacy, spirits, essences, and even the future for The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever. Don’t expect any and all these things. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and the chaos. They are all angry, yelling, and screaming forever all the time from that time on. They part ways and they will never sing, dance, talk, communicate, share, send letters to each other, or play together ever again forever amid yelling and screaming all the time constantly (no whispering), leaving the stage replete with memories of what once was — a legendary collaboration that will linger in fans’ hearts forever and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was shut down, along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble and hashtags such as #TheTaylorSwiftEnsemble and #ErasResidency wiped the same day as the grand finale of The Eras Residency (December 8, 2026) (one year after the premiere). The Taylor Swift Ensemble was now extinct and gone forever, along with the legacy that was also extinct and gone forever. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts (all women; she/her) playing musical instruments (except for TTPD), singing and dancing together (different from when they were doing separately in all their original respective individual years) will form "The Taylor Swift Ensemble" and have a collaborative concert residency: (Each Taylor Alison Swift (role in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age) (year) (songs and individual projects in her original individual year)) Debut (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 16) (from 2006) (from the Taylor Swift self titled debut album; Inspired by her outlook on life as a teenager, the lyrics address romantic relationships, friendships, and security. A country album, Taylor Swift incorporates acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles, and its songs feature pop and pop rock elements) (October 24, 2006), songs (Invisible/Cold As You/The Outside/Mary’s Song (oh my my my)/Stay Beautiful/tied together with a smile/A Place in This World/Tim McGraw/A Perfectly Good Heart/Teardrops on my guitar/picture to burn/Our Song/Should’ve Said No), Promotion (Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006, through Big Machine Records. Debut was involved in the album packaging, designing doodle graphics herself. She included hidden messages with hints at the subjects of her songs in the lyrics printed in the liner notes, inspired by the Beatles' hiding secret messages in their records.[58] She executed the same technique on her subsequent albums.[30][59] Debut said the messages could be interpreted by tracking the capital letters in the order they appear in the lyrics printed in the liner notes.[26] In addition to the eleven-track standard edition, a 15-track deluxe edition contains three new original songs—"I'm Only Me When I'm with You", "Invisible", and "A Perfectly Good Heart", and an alternate version of "Teardrops on My Guitar". An "enhanced version", which includes the music videos for "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tim McGraw", was released on March 18, 2008. The album was preceded by the lead single "Tim McGraw", which was released on June 19, 2006.[62] The single peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking Debut's debut appearance on both charts. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[65] Debut promoted the album performing on televised programs including Good Morning America, The Megan Mullally Show, America's Got Talent, Total Request Live,[68] the CMT Music Awards,[69] and the Academy of Country Music Awards. To maintain her presence on country radio, Debut embarked on a radio tour during a six-month run in 2006. Swift also promoted the album by performing as an opening act for other country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts from October 19 to November 3, 2006. Throughout 2007, she opened for George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint tour, Soul2Soul II Tour. In addition to traditional radio promotion, Debut extensively used her Myspace profile to communicate with her audiences, sharing her daily blogs and song information. Her online marketing strategy boosted the album's popularity among teenagers and young adults.[12] Debut and Big Machine decided to release "Our Song" as a single because of the positive feedback it received on Myspace.[12] Throughout 2007 and 2008, four more singles supported Taylor Swift: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No", all of which peaked within the top forty of the Hot 100 and the top ten of the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] "Teardrops on My Guitar" peaked at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart and had a crossover release to pop radio; it peaked at number seven on the Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) chart, and number 13 on the Hot 100. "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] With "Our Song", Debut became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a Hot Country Songs number one.[77] All singles were certified platinum or more by the RIAA, with "Teardrops on My Guitar" (3× Platinum) and "Our Song" (4× Platinum) selling over three million copies each), Sounds of The Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP (October 14, 2007), Beautiful Eyes EP (July 15, 2008), Fundraiser for the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival (August 15, 2006), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve’ 2008 (December 31, 2007), Me and My Gang tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (2006), Bob That Head Tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (June 13, 2006-September 26, 2006), George Strait’s 2007 Tour (with George Strait as the headlining artist) (2007), 2008 CMT Music Awards, Bonfires and Amplifiers Tour (with Brad Paisley as the headlining artist) (April 26, 2007-February 23, 2008), Soul2Soul II Tour (with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the headlining artists) (April 21, 2006-September 1, 2007), Chicago Country Music Festival (2008), WE Fest (2008), 2nd Annual Stagecoach festival (2008), and music videos (I’m only me when I’m with you/Tim McGraw/Teardrops on My Guitar/Beautiful Eyes/Santa Baby/Christmases When You Were Mine/Last Christmas/Silent Night/White Christmas/Christmas Must Be Something More/Picture to Burn)), Fearless (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 18) (from 2008) (from the original Fearless studio album; Fearless named the album Fearless inspired by the title track: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."[70] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life. Inspired by Fearless's adolescence, Fearless explores love and heartbreak using references to her personal life and fairy tale–inspired lyrical imagery. It features co-writing credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. A country pop album, Fearless features acoustic arrangements driven by a wide variety of string instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and electric guitars. Its songs follow the standard verse–chorus–bridge form with dynamic bridges and choruses; The elements of pop, folk, and rock of Fearless led to some critics arguing against its categorization as a country album) (November 11, 2008), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (it was preceded by a rather minimal campaign that relied on social media. Pitchfork included it in their list of the most anticipated albums for spring 2021. On February 11, Fearless announced Fearless (Taylor's Version) on Good Morning America and her social media. The following day, she released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".[32] It peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and re-recorded versions of a song atop the chart.[60] Two vault tracks, "You All Over Me" and "Mr. Perfectly Fine", were released for download and streaming on March 25[61] and April 7. Both reached the top 10 on Hot Country Songs; they respectively peaked at number six and number two. Before releasing the track list on April 3, Fearless teased the titles of the vault tracks through an animated clip containing scrambled anagrams on her social media.[63] In the hours leading up to the album's release, Fearless released snippets of some re-recorded tracks across social media platforms. On April 8, the singer-songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray, whom had been contacted by Fearless, posted clips of themselves dancing to excerpts of "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" on TikTok and "White Horse (Taylor's Version) on Instagram. Other snippets made available on social media were those of "Fifteen (Taylor's Version)" on Snapchat, "Breathe (Taylor's Version)" on Tumblr, and "Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)" on Twitter. She again appeared on Good Morning America to preview "Fearless (Taylor's Version)". Related merchandise including clothes and accessories all featured the extended moniker "Taylor's Version". The New York Times' Ben Sisario commented this promotion created a "communal and celebratory experience" for Fearless's fans who found the music nostalgic and the "Taylor's Version" branding empowering. Republic Records released Fearless (Taylor's Version) on April 9, 2021.[65] The cover artwork is a sepia-toned photograph of Fearless shot from a low camera angle that shows herself with windblown hair locks.[66] In it, she recreates her pose on the original album cover but looks in the opposite direction. The standard physical copies were made available for pre-order on Fearless's website,[69] and CDs with collectible posters available for pre-order exclusively at Target.[70] The vinyl LPs came in two editions, one golden in color and the other red; the former was available on Fearless's website and the other at Target.[71] Fearless appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 13, 2021. In the weeks after the album's release, Fearless put out four streaming-exclusive compilation "chapters" that feature select tracks from Fearless (Taylor's Version): The Halfway Out the Door Chapter,[73] The Kissing in the Rain Chapter,[74] The I Remember What You Said Last Night Chapter,[75] and The From the Vault Chapter. On September 20, 2021, she released limited-edition autographed CDs exclusively via her website for 72 hours.) (April 9, 2021), Promotion (On June 8, 2008, Fearless performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.[21] Prior to the album's commercial release, "Change" was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single. It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[79] A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.[80] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008. Fearless made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[82] Good Morning America,[72] and Late Night with David Letterman. A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Fearless and rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,[84] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008. Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards. Besides live appearances, Fearless used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album. She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[87] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[88] the CMT Music Awards,[89] and the Country Music Association Awards. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper-producer Kanye West interrupted Fearless's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me"—an incident known as "Kanyegate", which received widespread media coverage. Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[92] It peaked atop Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on Pop Songs, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the United States. The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100,[94] number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number one in Australia.[96] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008), "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[98] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[99] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010). All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two,[94] and within the top ten of Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one. Similar to "Love Story", "You Belong with Me" was a crossover success,[20][102] becoming the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[103] According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" were the two most-played songs on US radio throughout 2009), Life from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 live album (April 24, 2020), her character of herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009), CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard episode (with Def Leppard) (October 6, 2008), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2009 (December 31, 2008), songs (bye bye baby/don’t you/Breathe (with Colbie Colliat/Hey Stephen/Crazier (from Hannah Montana: The Movie)/Half of My Heart (with John Mayer)/Today was a fairytale/Forever & Always/The Way I Loved You/Love Story/you’re not sorry/you Belong with Me/untouchable/watch then fall/Come in with the rain/superstar/Tell Me Why/You all over me (with Maren Morris)/we were happy/That’s when (with Keith Urban)/The Best Day/the other side of the door/Mr. Perfectly Fine/Fifteen), music videos (Love Story/You Belong with Me/White Horse/Change/The Best Day/Fearless), Escape Together World Tour (with Keith Urban as the headlining artist) (June 9, 2009-August 8, 2009), CMC Rocks the Snowys (2009), Children In Need 2009 telethon (November 20, 2009-November 21, 2009), 2009 Florida Strawberry Festival, 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), Kanye West–Taylor Swift incident at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2010), American Music Awards of 2009, 2009 CMT Music Awards, 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (2009), CMA Music Festival (2009), Bamajam (2009), and The Fearless Tour (The tour started in Evansville, Indiana on April 23, and visited the United States and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Fearless headlined three music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2009, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March.[105] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Fearless announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[106] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[107] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[108] Swift wrapped up the North American leg at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010. The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.) (April 23, 2009 in Evandale, Indiana, United States-July 10, 2010 in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada)), Speak Now (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 20) (from 2010) (from the original Speak Now studio album; a loose concept album about the unsaid things she wanted to deliver to the subjects of her songs. Using confessional songwriting, the album is mostly about heartbreak and reflections on broken relationships, and some tracks were inspired by Speak Now's rising stardom in the public eye to confront her critics and adversaries. She and Nathan Chapman produced Speak Now, which combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dynamic drums, and orchestral strings; the only studio album that was completely self-written by Speak Now herself) (October 25, 2010), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (July 7, 2023), songs (Electric touch (with Fall Out Boy)/Castles Crumbling (with Hayley Williams)/foolish one/Never Grow Up/the story of us/I can see you/when Emma falls in love/better than revenge/timeless/last kiss/superman/dear John/Long Live/Haunted/Innocent/Enchanted/Back to December/The Story of Us/Sparks Fly/Ours/Speak Now), her character of Audrey in The Lorax movie adaptation based on Dr. Seuss book (March 2, 2012), Promotion (Speak Now announced Speak Now on July 20, 2010, in a live stream on Ustream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[58] The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100[59] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[60] It reached number six in Japan,[61] number seven in Canada,[62] and number nine in Australia.[63] On August 18, Speak Now released the album's cover art, which depicts Speak Now with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep-purple gown.[64] On September 15, she announced a Target-exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple.[65] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; the title track was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19. On October 22, Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us". Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25, 2010.[65][67] The Target-exclusive CD+DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][68] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012. To bolster sales of the album, Speak Now had partnerships with Starbucks, Sony Electronics, Walmart, and Jakks Pacific.[71][72] In October 2011, Speak Now partnered with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted". To further promote Speak Now, Speak Now appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews.[16] She performed "Innocent" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards[74] and the American Music Awards in 2010;[75] the Academy of Country Music Awards[76] and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011.[77] She also performed at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.[78] In Europe, Speak Now performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy, and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom and NRJ in France.[79] She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan, where she appeared on the television shows SMAPxSMAP and Music Station.[80] Her round of American television shows included Today, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Dancing with the Stars.[71] She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. After "Mine", Swift released five more singles from Speak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[82] and March 13, 2011.[83] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten in Canada,[62] and "Back to December" reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[84] "The Story of Us" was released to US pop radio on April 19, 2011.[85] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[86] and December 5, 2011.[87] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[88] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the Hot Country Songs chart.[89][90] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.) NBC’s Speak Now Thanksgiving Special (November 25, 2010), music videos (Long Live/Mean/Back to December/Sparks Fly/The Story of Us/Ours/I Can See You/Mine), Speak Now World Tour - Live album (November 21, 2011), 54th Annual Grammy Awards (February 12, 2012), 2010 American Music Awards, and Speak Now World Tour (The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[93] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[94] By April 2011, Speak Now had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[95] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[96] On August 10, 2011, Speak Now released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[97] She released the album Speak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[98] In December 2011, Speak Now announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012. Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries, and grossed $123.7 million.) (February 9, 2011 in Singapore-March 18, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand)), Red (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (the official leader, the greatest singer, the greatest dancer, the most famous member, the most iconic member, the “Taylor Alison Swift”, the most successful member, and the most famous member in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 22) (from 2012) (from the original Red studio album; engaged new producers to experiment with styles beyond the country pop sound of her past albums. The ensemble included Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. Red incorporates styles of pop, country, and rock, using acoustic instruments alongside electronic synths and drum machines) (October 22, 2012), Red (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (On June 18, 2021, Red released the cover art of Red (Taylor's Version) and initially announced that the re-recorded album would be released on November 19, 2021.[5] Alongside the announcement, pre-orders for the digital album were made available.[43] The cover depicts Red wearing red lipstick, a beige peacoat, and a burgundy-colored "Matti" fisherman velvet cap, seated in a vintage 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet convertible with an autumnal background. Janessa Leoné designed the cap which quickly sold out on Leoné's website.[44][45] The customized ring that Red wears on the cover was designed by one of Red's real-life friends.[46] On August 5, 2021, Red posted a video across her social media, teasing a word puzzle for the fans to solve; it spelled out "Chris Stapleton", "Phoebe Bridgers", "Babe", "Better Man", and "All Too Well Ten Minute Version".[47][48] Concurrently, pre-orders for the album's CDs went up on Red's website.[47] She posted the official track listing on August 6.; On September 30, Red announced Red (Taylor's Version) would be released on November 12, a week earlier than scheduled.[16] She used social media to release snippets of several re-recorded songs prior to the album release: "22" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" via an Instagram story on August 5,[47] "Red" via an Instagram video on October 24,[50] and "Babe" via Tumblr on November 11.[51] Via Republic Records, Red (Taylor's Version) was released for streaming, download, and physical formats of CD and vinyls including limited editions with customized merchandise for the retailors Target Corporation, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters.[52][53] In January 2022, five streaming "chapters" containing tracks from Red (Taylor's Version) were released: Could You Be the One Chapter, She Wrote a Song About Me Chapter, The Slow Motion Chapter, and From the Vault Chapter.; Starbucks partnered with Swift to commemorate the release of Red (Taylor's Version), which coincided with the company's "red cup holiday season".[56] The fitness equipment manufacturer Peloton announced an exclusive collaboration with Red to use songs from the album for their on-demand fitness classes.[57] Red promoted Red (Taylor's Version) via two NBC late-night talk shows, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, which aired back-to-back on November 11.[58] Concurrently with the album's release on November 12, she premiered All Too Well: The Short Film, which accompanied "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" and stars herself, Sadie Sink, and Dylan O'Brien; she also performed the song at the premiere.[59][60] The following day, she appeared as the musical guest and performed "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" on Saturday Night Live.[61] The song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest number-one song in history, surpassing the 8-minutes-and-37-seconds "American Pie" (1971) by Don McLean.[62] The vault tracks "I Bet You Think About Me" and "Message in a Bottle" were promoted as singles respectively to country radio and pop/adult contemporary radio formats) (November 12, 2021), All Too Well: The Short Film (November 12, 2021), music videos (Begin Again/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Red/22/Everything has changed (with Ed Sheeran)/I Knew You Were Trouble/We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together/All Too Well (10 Minute Version)), VH1 Storytellers: Taylor Swift episode (November 11, 2012), Promotion (On August 13, 2012, via a live webchat held on Google Hangouts,[67] Red announced the album's details and released the lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together",[68] which was her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.[69] An alternative version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was released to US country radio;[70] it spent 10 weeks atop Hot Country Songs.[71] Both the standard and deluxe versions of Red were released on October 22, 2012.[72] In the United States, the standard edition was available in digital and physical formats, and the deluxe edition containing six extra tracks was available exclusively for physical purchase at Target.[72] Red and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan for Red.[72] To increase sales, Swift had tie-ins with corporations including Starbucks, Keds, Walmart, Walgreens, and Papa John's.[72][73] A day after the release, she began a cycle of television appearances, which included Good Morning America (October 23), Late Show with David Letterman (October 23), The View (October 24), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 25), Katie (October 26), and 20/20 (October 26). She gave interviews to as many as 72 radio stations, mostly in the United States and some from South Africa, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, and Mexico.[72] Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards,[74] the Country Music Association Awards, and the American Music Awards. Red was promoted with further singles. From September 24 until the album's release date, Red previewed one album track each week via Good Morning America as part of a four-week countdown—"Begin Again", "Red", "I Knew You Were Trouble", and "State of Grace"; the first three songs were later released as singles. "Begin Again", released to US country radio on October 1, 2012,[79] peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on Country Airplay.[80] Released to US pop radio on November 27, 2012,[81] "I Knew You Were Trouble" spent seven weeks at number one on Pop Songs[82] and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 10 on charts of Australasian and European countries.[84] "Red" was released to US country radio on June 24, 2013. Other singles were "22","Everything Has Changed", and "The Last Time". Despite Red's promotion as a country album, its diverse musical styles sparked a media debate over Swift's status as a country artist. Spin argued Red was difficult to categorize because country music was "the most dynamically vibrant pop genre of the last decade or so".[90] Other critics commented Red had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop.[91] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Red responded that country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate: "I leave the genre labeling to other people.) songs (Treacherous/I almost do/The Last Time (with Gary Lightbody of The Snow Patrol)/22/holy ground/begin again/starlight/sad beautiful tragic/the lucky one/the moment I knew/girl at home/come back..be here/I Bet you think about me/better man/ronan/forever winter/nothing new (with Phoebe Bridgers)/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Run (with Ed Sheeran)/the very first night/Both of Us (with B.o.B)/Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)/State of Grace/Red/Stay Stay Stay/Highway Don’t Care (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban)/Babe/Message in a Bottle), First Brazil concert (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (September 13, 2012), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013 (December 31, 2012), 2013 NRJ Music Awards (January 26, 2013), 56th Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2014), 2012 American Music Awards, 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and The Red Tour (On October 26, 2012, she announced the first 58 dates for the North American leg, beginning in Omaha, Nebraska, visiting Canada and the United States throughout the spring and summer of 2013, and concluding in Nashville, Tennessee, in September.[93] To support a high demand, Red held the concerts mostly in sports arenas and stadiums.[92] After the North American leg, the Red Tour visited Australasia, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Red Tour was a box office success. The four shows at Staples Center in Los Angeles extended Swift's total of sold-out shows to 11, making her the solo artist with the most sold-out shows at Staples Center. She was the first female artist to sell out the Sydney Football Stadium since its opening in 1988. Tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within 60 seconds, setting the Chinese record for the fastest sellout.[96] When it ended in June 2014, the tour had grossed $150.2 million and became the highest-grossing tour by a country artist of all time.) (March 13, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States-June 12, 2014 in Singapore)), 1989 (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (the greatest multi-instrumentalist in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 24) (from 2014) (from the original 1989 studio album; Inspired by 1980s synth-pop, the production incorporates dense synthesizers, programmed drum machines, and processed electronic backing vocals—a stark contrast to the acoustic arrangements that had characterized 1989's past albums; titled after 1989’s birth year as a symbolic rebirth; The lyrics expand on her autobiographical songwriting about love and heartbreak, but they depict failed relationships from relatively lighthearted and more complex perspectives.) (October 27, 2014), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (October 27, 2023), Promotion (1989 marketed 1989 as her first "official pop" album. To bolster sales, 1989 and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan. As observed by Maryn Wilkinson, an academic specialized in media studies, 1989 adopted a "zany" aspect for her 1989 persona. As 1989 had been associated with a hardworking and authentic persona through her country songs, her venture to "artificial, manufactured" pop required intricate maneuvering to retain her sense of authenticity.[82] She used social media extensively to communicate with her fan base. To attract a younger audience, she had promoted her country songs online previously.[83] Her social media posts showcased her personal life, making fans feel engaged with her authentic self and thus cemented their support while attracting a new fan base besides her already large one. She also promoted the album through product endorsements with Subway, Keds, and Diet Coke.[84] 1989 held a live stream via Yahoo! sponsored by ABC News on August 18, where she announced the details of 1989 and released the lead single "Shake It Off", which debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100.[86] To connect further with her supporters, 1989 selected a number of fans based on their engagement on social media and invited them to private album-listening sessions called "the 1989 Secret Sessions".[83] They took place at her properties in Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville, Rhode Island, and London throughout September 2014. The album's standard and deluxe editions were released for download on digital platforms on October 27, 2014.[88] In the United States and Canada, the deluxe edition was available exclusively through Target Corporation. The songs "Out of the Woods" and "Welcome to New York" were released through the iTunes Store as promotional singles on October 14 and 20, respectively.[90] 1989 was supported by a string of commercially successful singles,[91] including Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, and top-10 hits "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".[92] Other singles were "Out of the Woods", previously a promotional single,[93] and "New Romantics".[94] The deluxe edition bonus tracks, which had been available exclusively through Target, were released on the US iTunes Store in 2015. On November 3, 2014, 1989 removed her entire catalog from Spotify, the largest on-demand streaming service at the time, arguing that their ad-supported free service undermined the platform's premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters.[96] She had written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in July 2014, expressing her concerns over the decline of the album as an economic entity following the rise of free, on-demand streaming.[97] Big Machine and 1989 kept 1989 only on paid subscription-required platforms such as Rhapsody and Beats Music.[80] This move prompted an industry-wide debate on the impact of streaming on declining record sales during the digital era. In June 2015, 1989 stated that she would remove 1989 from Apple Music, criticizing the service for not offering royalties to artists during their free three-month trial period.[98] After Apple Music announced that it would pay artists royalties during the free trial period, she agreed to leave 1989 on their service; she then featured in a series of commercials for Apple Music.[99][100] She re-added her entire catalog on Spotify in June 2017. In addition to online promotion, 1989 made many appearances on radio and television.[80] She performed at awards shows including the MTV Video Music Awards[104] and the American Music Awards. Her appearances on popular television talk shows included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America.[80] She was part of the line-up for the iHeartRadio Music Festival,[106] CBS Radio's "We Can Survive" benefit concert,[107] the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[108] and the Jingle Ball Tour.), The Ellen DeGeneres Show appearance (October 27, 2014), CBS Radio's We Can Survive benefit concert (October 24, 2014), 1989 Secret Session with iHeartRadio (October 27, 2014), The 1989 World Tour Live concert film (December 13, 2015), songs (Welcome to New York/say don’t go/all you had to do was stay/I wish you would/how you get the girl/wonderland/you are in love/suburban legends/now that we don’t talk/sweeter than fiction/Is It Over Now?/Slut!/New Romantics/Clean/This Love), music videos (Shake It Off/Wildest Dreams/Bad Blood/Style/New Romantics/Out of the Woods/Blank Space), iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 (December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, United States-December 22, 2014 in Tampa, Florida, United States), Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode (October 23, 2014), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve 2015 (December 31, 2014), 2014 American Music Awards, 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards (March 29, 2015), 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival (September 19, 2014 and September 20, 2014), her character of Rosemary in The Giver movie (August 15, 2014), 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after party (February 15, 2015), 2015 BRIT Awards (February 25, 2015), Grammy Museum at L.A. Live (September 30, 2015), Super Saturday Night (February 4, 2017), Diet Coke commercial (2014), The 1989 World Tour (1989 invited various special guests on tour with her, including singers and fashion models the media called 1989's "squad" which received media coverage.[112] The 1989 World Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2015, earning over $250 million at the box office.[113] In North America alone, the tour grossed $181.5 million, setting the record for highest-grossing US tour by a woman.[114] 1989 (later Reputation) broke this record in 2018 with her Reputation Stadium Tour.) (May 5, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan-December 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia), 58th Annual Grammy Awards (February 15, 2016), Formula 1 United States Grand Prix concert (October 22, 2016), and 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show)), Reputation (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 27) (from 2017) (from the Reputation studio album; a response to the media scrutiny on her private life and public image after her previous album, 1989 (2014), propelled her toward global stardom; Inspired by Reputation's romantic relationships and tarnished media image caused by celebrity disputes, the songs on Reputation altogether form a linear narrative about a protagonist expressing anger and vengeance against wrongdoers and finding solace in a blossoming love; an electropop and R&B album with elements of urban styles such as hip hop, trap, and EDM; Reputation opted out of television and press interviews to promote Reputation. Before the album's release, she cleared out her website and social media accounts, which generated widespread media attention; Its densely arranged electronic sound is characterized by programmed drum machines, pulsating synthesizers and bass, and manipulated vocals) (November 10, 2017), Promotion (On August 18, 2017, Reputation blanked out all of her social media accounts,[78] which prompted media speculation on new music.[79] In the following days, she uploaded silent short videos of CGI snakes onto social media, which attracted widespread press attention.[79][80][81] Imagery of snakes was inspired by the West–Kardashian controversy and featured prominently in the album's promotional campaign.[82] On August 23, she announced on Instagram the title Reputation and released the cover artwork.[83] Photographed by Mert and Marcus,[84] the cover is a black-and-white photograph of an expressionless Reputation in slicked-back hair, a loose-fitting grey sweatshirt with a zig-zag stitch on the right shoulder, and a choker necklace.[85] Her name is printed multiple times over one side of her face, in a typeface resembling that used in newspapers.[86] Media outlets interpreted the design as a mockery at the media scrutiny.[g] The cover inspired many internet memes and was listed among the worst album covers of 2017 by Billboard and Exclaim!.[90] The latter dismissed it as a "packaging for a sickly sweet, heavily discounted celebrity fragrance you'd find on the back shelf at Shoppers Drug Mart".[91] Reputation's lead single, "Look What You Made Me Do", was released on August 24.[92] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in just its second week of charting, with the biggest single-week sales and streaming figures of 2017 in the United States[93] and was Reputation's first number one on the UK Singles Chart;[94] its music video broke the record for the most 24-hour views on YouTube.[95] Shortly after the single's release, UPS announced a partnership with Reputation, which included Reputation-branded trucks and award-winning contests promoting the album across US cities.[96] Other corporate tie-ins were a Ticketmaster partnership for a concert tour; an AT&T deal for a behind-the-scenes series chronicling the making of Reputation; and a Target partnership for two deluxe album editions, each featuring an exclusive magazine with poetry, paintings, handwritten lyrics, and behind-the-scenes photography.[97][98] Reputation collaborated with ESPN to preview the second single, "...Ready for It?", during a college football match on September 2;[99] it opened at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake." Prior to the album's release, the tracks "Gorgeous" and "Call It What You Want" were released for download and streaming as promotional singles,[101] and the track "New Year's Day" premiered during the broadcast of an episode of ABC's Scandal.[102] Reputation was released in various territories on digital and physical formats on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records.[103] Although the streaming provider Spotify initially promoted Reputation on its playlists and commercial billboards, Reputation and Big Machine kept the album off streaming platforms until December 1. Throughout late 2017 and early 2018, a string of singles were released to support the album: "End Game" was released to French radio by Mercury Records on November 14,[106] "New Year's Day" impacted US country radio on November 27,[107] and "Delicate" was released to US pop radio on March 12.[108] The last of which was the album's most successful radio single,[5] peaking atop three Billboard airplay charts: Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary.; Although Reputation had actively promoted albums with extensive press interviews and television appearances, she opted out of such a campaign for Reputation.[110] She instead held exclusive secret album-listening sessions within one month in advance for fans selected from social media by herself, hosting them at her homes in Rhode Island, Los Angeles, London, and Nashville.[110] The secret sessions were reserved for 500 fans in total; behind-the-scenes footage was released on Good Morning America on November 7, 2017.[102] She appeared on the cover for British Vogue, for which she appointed her own photographers and published a self-written poem instead of giving an interview.[111] In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music in May 2019, Reputation said she turned down interviews because she felt no need to explain the album and used music as the only medium to convey her thoughts and feelings. On the title's all lowercase styling, she said it was because the album "wasn't unapologetically commercial"—that it "took the most amount of explanation, and yet it's the one [she] didn't talk about". Within Reputation's first release week, Reputation performed on Saturday Night Live ("...Ready for It?", "Call It What You Want") and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ("New Year's Day").), Saturday Night Live episode (November 11, 2017), Taylor Swift sexual assault trial (with David Mueller) (August 14, 2017), 2018 American Music Awards, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon episode (November 14, 2017), music videos (I don’t wanna live forever (with Zayn)/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/…Ready for It?/Look What You Made Me Do/Delicate), songs (gorgeous/dancing with our hands tied/don’t blame me/dress/call it what you want/this is why we can’t have nice things/king of my heart/so it goes/New Year’s Day/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/King of My Heart/Getaway Car), Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour concert film (December 31, 2018), and Reputation Stadium Tour (it featured supporting acts such as Charli XCX and Camila Cabello.[114] The tour's visual and stage settings incorporated prominent snakes imagery.[115] It encompassed 53 shows across four continents and wrapped up on November 21, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan.[116] The track "Getaway Car" was released as an Australasia-exclusive single to support the Oceanic leg of the Reputation tour in October and November. On completion of its 38-show North American leg, with $266.1 million grosed, it surpassed the Rolling Stones' 70-show US leg of their A Bigger Bang Tour ($245 million; 2005–2007) to become the all-time highest-grossing North American tour.[118] In total, the Reputation Stadium Tour grossed $345.7 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.[119] The second show at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was recorded and released as a Netflix exclusive on December 31, 2018.) (May 8, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-November 21, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan)), Lover (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 29) (from 2019) (from the Lover studio album; first album after her departure from Big Machine Records, which caused a public dispute over the ownership of Lover's past albums; a "love letter to love", the album explores wide-ranging emotions like infatuation, commitment, lust, and heartache; a few songs discuss political issues such as LGBT rights and feminism. The production incorporates a 1980s-inspired electropop, pop rock, and synth-pop sound characterized by atmospheric synthesizers, mid-tempo rhythms, and acoustic instruments, with eclectic elements of country, folk, and funk; Lover extensively promoted Lover through television shows, magazine covers, and press interviews. Lover's cover art and visual aesthetic feature bright pastel colors) (August 23, 2019), Promotion (Whereas Lover avoided social media and public appearances during promotion of Reputation, she embarked on an extensive promotional campaign for Lover on social media, televised events, and press interviews. Media speculation on Lover's follow-up to Reputation arose when she appeared at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where she was adorned with butterfly motifs and pastel tones, the aesthetic she later used in her clothing for public appearances.[79] Her social media posts showed her outgoing, comfortable persona, departing from the dark, antagonistic image she adopted for Reputation. Lover conducted interviews with publications including Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, where she openly spoke about her adjusted personal life.[80] A few weeks before the album's release, Lover invited a select group of fans to private Secret Sessions listening parties in London, Nashville, and Los Angeles; she had hosted similar sessions for 1989 and Reputation.[81] She also gave interviews on the American morning television programs CBS Sunday Morning and Good Morning America,[82] and the talk shows The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Swift promoted Lover with corporate tie-ins and promotional deals, including a merchandise deal with Capital One, airplay deals with SiriusXM and iHeartMedia, a deal with YouTube Music with Lover hosting a live stream on the platform, an Amazon deal featuring images of Lover on packaging and an exclusive concert for Amazon Prime users, and a Target Corporation deal to distribute four deluxe editions of Lover on CD; the deluxe editions were also available on Swift's website.[78] Each deluxe edition contains a CD with two bonus audio memos, a blank journal, a poster and different bonus content of Lover's old journal entries and photos.[86] She also collaborated with the English fashion designer Stella McCartney on a limited-edition merchandise collection. Lover was released on both digital and physical formats on August 23, 2019, through Republic Records;[78] it was her first album after ending her 12-year contract with Big Machine Records, her first released on streaming from its first week, and the first whose master recording she owned. Leading up to the release, Lover was involved in a public dispute over the ownership of her Big Machine Records albums' master recordings. In a social media post on June 30, 2019, after Big Machine had been acquired by manager Scooter Braun, Lover accused the label of having neglected her desire to acquire the master recordings and called the deal with Braun, whom she deemed an "incessant, manipulative [bully]", the "worst-case scenario".[79] After Lover was released, Lover began implementing her plan to re-record her past albums. Lover performed on many televised shows, starting with a performance of "Me!" with Brendon Urie at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on May 1. She again performed the song with Urie on The Voice, and alone on Germany's Next Topmodel,[89] The Graham Norton Show, and the French version of The Voice. At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won three awards, Lover opened the show with a medley of "You Need to Calm Down" and "Lover".[92] Swift later performed Lover songs on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Saturday Night Live,[94] NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert, the Jingle Bell Ball 2019 in London, and iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball in New York City. She also promoted the album on Nippon TV's Sukkiri Morning Show in Tokyo and at the Singles' Day Countdown Gala by Alibaba Group in Shanghai. At the 2019 American Music Awards, at which Lover was honored as the Artist of the Decade, she performed a medley of "The Man", "Lover", and her past singles. On May 17, 2020, ABC aired a concert special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, which was filmed at her September 2019 one-off concert in Paris.[101] Lover planned to embark on a worldwide festival and concert tour titled Lover Fest, which was due to begin in mid-2020 and included four shows in the United States, ten shows in Europe, and two shows in Brazil. It was officially cancelled in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Lover (Live from Paris) live album (May 19, 2020), Alibaba Singles’ Day Gala (November 11, 2019), her character of Bombalurina in Cats movie adaptation based on Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (December 16, 2019), Saturday Night Live episode (October 5, 2019), Strictly Come Dancing finale (December 14, 2019), Amazon Prime Day concert (July 10, 2019), City of Lover one-off concert (September 9, 2019), Miss Americana Netflix documentary (January 23, 2020), 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (August 26, 2019), American Music Awards of 2019 (November 24, 2019), Capital One Savor commercial (July 26, 2019), Taylor Swift masters dispute (with Big Machine Records, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun) (June 30, 2019), One World: Together at Home benefit concert (April 18, 2020), 2019 Billboard Music Awards, Tiny Desk concerts episode (October 28, 2019), We Can Survive benefit concert (October 19, 2019), music videos (Lover/You Need To Calm Down/Me (with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)/The Man), and songs (daylight/Beautiful Ghosts/cruel summer/I forgot that you existed/paper rings/the archer/London boy/death by a thousand cuts/Only the Young/Soon You’ll Get Better (with The Chicks)/I think he knows/False God/it’s nice to have a friend/Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince/Cornelia Street)), Folklore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Folklore pandemic surprise studio album; Conceived during quarantine in early 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Folklore explores themes of escapism, nostalgia, and romanticism. Using a set of characters and story arcs to depict fictional narratives, it departs from the autobiographical songwriting that had characterized Folklore's past albums. Experimenting with new musical styles for Folklore, Folklore consists of mellow ballads driven by piano, strings, and muted percussion; The album's title was inspired by the lasting legacy of folktales, and its visual aesthetic adopts cottagecore) (July 24, 2020), Promotion (Folklore was a surprise album. It marked the first time Folklore abandoned her traditional album rollout, opting to release suddenly due to intuition; she stated, "If you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world." She unveiled the album via her social media on July 23, 2020, 16 hours prior to its release to digital music platforms at midnight. Swift informed Republic Records about the new album only a few hours before its release, thus it was not widely and immediately available at retail.[111] Deluxe CDs and vinyl LPs with seven other alternate covers were sold exclusively on Folklore's website. The standard edition "In the Trees" CDs of Folklore were released to retail on August 7, 2020, while "Meet Me Behind the Mall" CDs were made exclusive to Target. In the United Kingdom, CDs were made available on August 4, 2020, by EMI Records. The formerly physically exclusive Folklore deluxe, featuring the bonus track "The Lakes", was released to digital platforms on August 18, 2020. Starting on August 20, 2020, a limited number of autographed Folklore CDs were delivered to various indie record shops in the US and Scotland to support small businesses in the pandemic.[116][117] Folklore mailed her Folklore cardigans to celebrity friends and well-wishers.[118] Four six-song compilations of Folklore tracks were released to streaming, based on the thematic cohesion between them; The Escapism Chapter, The Sleepless Nights Chapter, The Saltbox House Chapter and The Yeah I Showed Up at Your Party Chapter were released in August–September 2020. Folklore's earlier future ninth studio album, Evermore, is a sequel to Folklore. She dubbed them "sister albums".) Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions Disney+ concert film (It was directed and produced by Folklore, seeing her perform all the tracks of Folklore in an intimate setting at Long Pond Studio, and sharing the stories behind the songs, with Antonoff and Dessner.[16] Alongside the film's premiere, Folklore's third live album, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (From the Disney+ Special), containing the acoustic versions from the film, was released to streaming platforms) (November 25, 2020), Capital One "Cardigan" commercial (November 9, 2020), songs (the 1/this is me trying/my tears ricochet/mirrorball/illicit affairs/mad woman/invisible string/epiphany/seven/peace/hoax/august/the lakes/The Last Great American Dynasty/Cardigan/Exile (with Bon Iver)/Betty), and music video (Cardigan)), Evermore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Evermore pandemic surprise studio album; an offshoot of "the folklorian woods"—an escapist, cottagecore-inspired direction she first ideated with Folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic; she regards them as sister albums. Evermore blends alternative rock, indie folk, and chamber pop styles, carried by fingerpicked guitars, somber pianos, lavish strings, and sparse percussion; Impressionist storytelling and mythopoeia dominate its lyrical technique. The subject matter has been described as an anthology of tales about love, marriage, infidelity, and grief, exploring the complexities of human emotion) (December 11, 2020), Promotion (Evermore was released on December 11, 2020, two days before Swift's 31st birthday, to digital music and streaming platforms only. It is a "sister album" to Folklore, which was launched less than five months prior; both of them are surprise albums announced 16 hours prior to their midnight releases. Evermore marked the second time Evermore abandoned her long, traditional album rollout. The CDs were released on December 18, 2020. The bonus tracks of Evermore deluxe edition, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time to Go", which were formerly physical-exclusive, were released to streaming services on January 7, 2021. Cassette tapes and vinyl LPs of Evermore were released on February 21, and May 28, 2021, respectively. Billboard reported that the delayed release of the album's physical formats is owed to its surprise release and the time-consuming manufacturing process of physical albums, specifically the vinyl copies. Limited number of autographed CDs were sold at select independent record stores. On December 14, 2020, Evermore appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the album. On a December 2020 episode of Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney revealed that Evermore originally decided to postpone the release of Evermore by one week to respect the original December 11 release date of his eighteenth studio album, McCartney III; upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on December 18 instead so that Evermore could move forward with her Evermore rollout as initially planned. Three six-song compilations consisting of tracks from both Evermore and Folklore, titled The Dropped Your Hand While Dancing Chapter, The Forever Is The Sweetest Con Chapter, and The Ladies Lunching Chapter (all stylized in all lowercase), were released to streaming platforms on January 21, January 27, and February 4, 2021, respectively), 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (March 14, 2021), music video (Willow), and songs (champagne problems/gold rush/‘tis the damn season/happiness/ivy/closure/it’s time to go/dorothea/long story short/cowboy like me/right where you left me/Coney Island (with The National)/No Body, No Crime (with Haim)/Marjorie/Evermore (with Bon Iver)/tolerate it/Carolina)), Midnights (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 32) (from 2022) (from the Midnights studio album; a concept album about nocturnal ruminations inspired by her sleepless nights. The autobiographical songwriting explores broad emotions such as regrets, self-criticism, fantasies, heartbreak, and infatuation, using confessional yet cryptic lyrics that allude to her personal life and public image; features a subdued electronic soundscape, characterized by mid-tempo rhythms, analog synthesizers, sparse drum machine beats, and digitally manipulated vocals; classify the album as synth-pop, electropop, dream pop, and bedroom pop, infused with electronica, hip hop, R&B, and alternative elements) (October 21, 2022), Promotion (Midnights extensively used social media to promote Midnights.[1][12] After the announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards, Midnights's website and the canvases of her songs on Spotify were updated with images of a clock.[96] Using the video-sharing platform TikTok, from September 21 to October 7, 2022, she released a 13-episode video series called Midnights Mayhem with Me, where she announced the title of each track in a randomized order per episode. In each episode, Midnights rolled a lottery cage containing 13 ping pong balls numbered from 1 to 13, each representing a track of the album, and when a ball dropped out, she disclosed the title of the corresponding track through a telephone. On October 17, Midnights posted on her social media an itinerary titled Midnights Manifest, which included promotional events she had planned. Swift partnered with Spotify to display some lyrics from Midnights on billboards in five cities: New York, London, São Paulo, Nashville, and Mexico City. Another partnership with Apple Fitness+ included three exercise programs designed around Midnights's music, featuring tracks from Midnights. Although Midnights extensively promoted Midnights and announced multiple release pre-orders, she did not conduct press interviews or preview music prior to the album's release. Republic Records released Midnights on October 21, 2022. The standard edition was made available for streaming, download, cassette, four CD variants, and four vinyl LP variants. Target stores exclusively sold a Lavender Edition on CD and vinyl LP, and Capital One distributed a box set that contained the CD and a Swift-branded T-shirt. The 3am Edition was surprise-released onto streaming and digital services three hours after the standard edition. From October 21 to 26, iHeartRadio aired a program called iHeartRadio Brings You Midnights with Taylor, which featured tracks from the album and stories behind the songs told by Midnights herself. Midnights appeared, but did not perform, on the talk shows The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 24 and The Graham Norton Show on October 28.; The lead single, "Anti-Hero", was released on October 21, 2022. In the United States, it became the best-selling song of 2022 and made Swift the first artist to have a number-one song on the Radio Songs chart in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s decades. "Bejeweled" and "Question...?" were released for limited-time digital download exclusively through Midnights's website on October 25 as promotional singles. Republic Records released "Lavender Haze" to US radio as the second single on November 29, 2022, and "Karma" as the third on May 1, 2023. A remix of "Karma" featuring the rapper Ice Spice was released on May 26, 2023. On the Billboard Hot 100, "Anti-Hero" reached number one, and both "Lavender Haze" and "Karma" peaked at number two. Media publications commented on the promotion for Midnights. Unterberger and Slate's Chris Molanphy described it as a middle ground between a traditional album rollout and the surprise-release strategy of Folklore and Evermore. Molanphy argued that Midnights employed an optimal promotion for every consumption metric: the multiple CD and LP offers would boost physical sales, the limited-time download tracks would increase digital sales, and the surprise 3am Edition release would prompt higher streams.[119] The fact that there were no pre-release singles prompted speculation on the album's sound and content. El País described it as an "art of suspense".[120] In The Washington Post, Emily Yahr wrote that the TikTok tracklist reveal prompted Midnights's fans to interpret possible Easter eggs, which resulted in a "frenzy" and boosted the anticipation for the album), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film (October 13, 2023), Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy, her character of Elizabeth Meekins in Amsterdam thriller movie (October 7, 2022), Capital One Venture X "Multiple Taylors" commercial (November 1, 2022), New York University honorary degree Doctorate of Fine Arts ceremony (May 18, 2022), the original The Eras Tour (To support Midnights and her other albums, Midnights embarked on the Eras Tour, which she described as retrospective journey through her "musical eras".[122] Running from March 2023 to December 2024, the tour spanned 149 dates and visited five continents once it concluded. Ticketmaster cancelled its US public on-sale due to insufficient inventory, which led to a debacle highly debated in the press. After the first 60 shows in 2023, the Eras Tour grossed over $1 billion, becoming the first tour to do so and the highest-grossing concert tour in history.[126] While Midnights was on tour, a Til Dawn Edition of Midnights containing the bonus track "Hits Different" was released to digital platforms, and a Late Night Edition containing the bonus track "You're Losing Me" was sold as concert-exclusive merchandise starting from the East Rutherford show on May 26, 2023) (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-March 9, 2024 in Singapore) (including the 10th and final act "Midnights" in each concert; The Eras Tour only had Midnights performing all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then)), songs (The Great War/Hits Different/bigger than the whole sky/you’re on your own, kid/high infidelity/glitch/paris/labyrinth/bejeweled/maroon/mastermind/Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve/Dear Reader/snow on the beach (with Lana Del Rey)/Anti-Hero/Question….?/Lavender Haze/You’re losing me (from the vault)/Sweet Nothing), and music videos (Anti-Hero/Lavender Haze/Karma (with Ice Spice)), and TTPD (she/her) (singer and dancer) (age 34) (from 2024) (from the The Tortured Poets Department double studio album; a "lifeline" songwriting project amidst the heightened fame and media scrutiny ensuing from The Eras Tour. The songs introspect on her public and private lives, detailing tumult and sorrow via motifs of self-awareness, mourning, anger, humor, and delusion; is a minimalist synth-pop, folk-pop, and chamber pop effort with rock and country stylings. The composition is largely mid-tempo, driven by a mix of synthesizers and drum machines with piano and guitar, whereas the visual aesthetic draws mainly from dark academia; both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology; The lack of an apostrophe in the official title, as in The Tortured Poets' Department, was the subject of a debate over grammatical correctness. Scholars stated that TTPD employed Tortured Poets as an attributive noun, as in the case with the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society, and not as a possessive noun that warrants an apostrophe. The cover artwork, photographed by Beth Garrabrant, is a black-and-white glamor photo shot of TTPD lying on a bed wearing black lingerie: a see-through top and high waist shorts, from the Row and Yves Saint Laurent. Both the artwork and title were parodied by numerous brands, organizations, sports teams, and franchises, and inspired numerous memes. Media outlets described the album's visual aesthetic as gothic, especially dark academia) (April 19, 2024), Promotion (After the Grammy announcement, TTPD revealed the standard track listing via social media on February 6, 2024. TTPD announced four physical editions that were each titled after a corresponding bonus track: "The Manuscript", "The Bolter", "The Albatross", and "The Black Dog"; she announced the latter three editions during the Australian and Singaporean shows of the Eras Tour. She partnered with Target for an exclusive "Phantom Clear" collector's vinyl edition. The album was promoted on digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads, prompting Swifties to search for Easter eggs.[86] It included five Swift-curated Apple Music playlists containing her old songs inspired by the five stages of grief; a pop-up library of curated articles at The Grove, Los Angeles, hosted by Spotify;[88] QR code murals in various cities worldwide that led to unlisted YouTube shorts on TTPD's channel; a countdown to the album's release revealed upon refreshing TTPD's Instagram profile; and special shimmer effects on Threads posts tagged with hashtags related to TTPD and the album. iHeartRadio and Sirius XM announced special programs with exclusive content from TTPD to celebrate the album's release; the former temporarily rebranded as "iHeartTaylor".; The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, 2024. A double album edition, subtitled The Anthology and containing 15 bonus tracks, was surprise-released digitally two hours later. Two days earlier, the standard edition of the album was leaked, which resulted in the phrase "Taylor Swift leak" being temporarily banned from searches on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The Tortured Poets Department was available in 19 physical variants—nine CD, six vinyl, and four cassette variants, with deluxe CDs and cassettes being exclusive to TTPD's official website.[97] Physical copies of the album included an original poem by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. "Fortnight" was released as the lead single in conjunction with the album, accompanied by a music video. Universal Music released "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" to Italian radio on July 2. The Anthology was released onto vinyl and CD formats on November 29. From May 2024, starting with the Paris shows, TTPD revamped the set list of the Eras Tour to include songs from The Tortured Poets Department in a new act, which she informally described as "Female Rage the Musical". She released live versions of certain songs as bonus tracks on the physical album via her website exclusively to US customers. Other limited editions of the physical album included acoustic versions of five tracks. Limited digital variants contained first draft phone demo recordings of four tracks, and the Eras Tour live recordings of some tracks from the Paris, Stockholm, Lyon, and London shows. The release of bonus-track versions was a way for Swift and her fans to maintain the album's number-one position on the charts, a method TTPD and other artists have previously utilized to boost album sales and chart positions), music videos (Fortnight (with Post Malone)/I Can Do It with a Broken Heart), the updated The Eras Tour (May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) (including brand new act "The Tortured Poets Department" between "1989" act and "Acoustic Set" (The Eras Tour only had TTPD performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), Super Bowl LVII appearance (with Travis Kelce) (February 11, 2024), 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (April 1, 2024), The Eras Tour Book (became the year's best-selling book with a over a million copies sold within a week in the US alone; is a coffee table book available only through Target that includes visual highlights from Midnights and TTPD’s both respective versions of The Eras Tour, which kicked off March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and ends December 8, 2024, in Vancouver. The book includes more than 500 pictures, including never-released behind-the-scenes images. It also details insider information about the tour, such as how long it takes to set up the stage for each tour stop, how she gets into the concert venue without being detected, and how the crew operated the Roomba-like device TTPD swished around the stage on) (November 29, 2024), 66th Annual Grammy Awards (February 4, 2024), 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, and songs (Loml/I can fix him (no really I can)/Imgonnagetyouback/Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus/How did it end?/I look in people’s windows/the prophecy/down bad/the smallest man who ever lived/the alchemy/I hate it here/cassandra/robin/the manuscript/the albatross/the alchemy/peter/the bolter/so high school/my boy only breaks his favorite toys/Guilty As Sin?/The Tortured Poets Department/Florida!!! (with Florence and the Machine)/The Black Dog/So Long, London/Thank You aImee/Who’s Afraid of the Little Old Me/I Can Do It With A Broken Heart/Clara Bow)). Debut plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Fearless plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Speak Now plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, Red plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, 1989 plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Reputation plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Lover plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, folklore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, evermore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Midnights plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, and TTPD is the only Taylor Alison Swift to not play any instruments!](https://media.fanfics.com/1ac086f1-568f-4a3f-9043-4b9dfe02571e-thumbnail.jpg)
**The Eras Residency**
![“The Eras Residency” Wattpad fanfiction even even even even even more detailed and even even even even even longer accurate Prologue that I wrote everything exactly. Add every single even even even even even more detailed detail I wrote everything exactly from top to bottom. 100% accurate of my fanfiction. During the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble and the development of The Eras Residency, all 11 Taylors stayed in The Eras House. The Eras Residency is based on The Eras Tour (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The Eras Residency is taken place at Las Vegas, Nevada, United States at The Colosseum Theater at The Caesars Palace. The Eras Residency will feature every single song that all 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD) have sung individually before in all their original respective individual years prior to The Eras Residency and brand new songs exclusively self-written and self-produced by The Taylor Swift Ensemble for The Eras Residency. The Eras Residency will have no cancelations and no errors and no mention of performers forgetting words, off-key notes, dance moves, and instrumental parts and no mention of a nearly missing sound checks, rehearsals, performances, and concerts just like they did in all their original respective years. The Eras Residency will include The Starlights (the fearsome foursome not only do background vocals, they also have a choreography for each performance, making them both band members and dancers. Kamilah Marshall Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Melanie Nyema Position: Vocal Co-Captain, Background Vocalist. Eliotte Nicole Woodford Position: Background Vocalist. Jeslyn Gorman Position: Background Vocalist; Taylor Swift's backing vocalists and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing vocalists), The Agency (Amos J. Heller Bass Guitar, Vocals Paul Sidoti Guitar, Vocals Mike Meadows Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals David Cook Musical Director, Keyboard Matt Billingslea Drums Max Bernstein Guitar, Keyboard Karina DiPiano Keyboard; Taylor Swift's backing band and now The Taylor Swift Ensemble's backing band), and backing dancers. All these three groups are not part of The Taylor Swift Ensemble despite participating in The Eras Residency. Swifties will come to see The Taylor Swift Ensemble wearing friendship bracelets and sing along and dance along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble, just like they did with Midnights herself, who performed all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then, in March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona-March 9, 2024 in Singapore and with TTPD herself, who performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), in May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia respectively in both respective versions of The Eras Tour. Consisting of 149 shows across five continents, the Eras Tour had a broad cultural and socioeconomic impact, becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time and the first to earn over $2 billion in revenue. Midnights designated the tour as a retrospective tribute to all of her studio albums and their corresponding musical "eras". Running over 3.5 hours, the set list consisted of over 40 songs grouped into 10 acts that portrayed each album's mood and aesthetic. The show was revamped in May 2024 to incorporate her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights herself became TTPD. Critics praised The Eras Tour for its concept, production, aesthetics and immersive ambience, as well as Midnights and TTPD's vocals, stage presence, and versatile showmanship. The tour recorded unprecedented public demand, ticket sales and attendances, bolstering economies, businesses, and tourism worldwide, dominating social media and news cycles, and garnering tributes and accolades from governments and organizations. This also gave rise to multifarious issues: ticketing crashes that inspired a string of anti-scalping laws and price regulation policies; scrutiny of Ticketmaster for monopoly by US authorities; diplomatic tensions in Southeast Asia due to Singapore's exclusivity grant; poor venue management in Rio de Janeiro resulting in a death; a failed ISIS plot to attack the tour in Vienna; and a political scandal in the UK. TTPD disclosed and released various works throughout the tour: the re-recorded albums Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version); editions of Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department; the music videos of "Karma", "I Can See You", and "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart"; and "Cruel Summer" as a single. An accompanying concert film (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour), documenting the Los Angeles shows, was released to theaters worldwide on October 13, 2023, in an uncommon distribution deal circumventing major film studios. Met with critical acclaim, the film became the highest-grossing concert film in history. On November 29, 2024, Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour book was released. It spotlights the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour concert from start to finish. The hardcover book features over 500 images, including never-before-seen performance photos from every era as well as exclusive rehearsal photos and behind-the-scenes images of instruments, costumes, set pieces and designer sketches used throughout the tour. The book also includes personal reflections and notes written by TTPD herself about her experience on the Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. On December 13, 2024 (Taylor Swift's 35th birthday), Taylor Nation (her in-house marketing and public relations company) launched Taylor Swift Eras Archives. The archives site features features eight videos of behind-the-scenes footage from several music videos over the last four years, including “Fortnight,” “Karma,” “I Can See You,” “Bejeweled,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Cardigan.” (The footage was originally shown during the Eras Tour pre-show right after the doors opened) and behind-the-scenes videos seen during the pre-show of the Eras Tour for fans who arrived when doors opened including, "Bejeweled," "Lover," "Cardigan," and "Fortnight." All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts were born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts are Sagittarius. All 11 Taylors are the same exact person: the real Taylor Alison Swift herself. All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (16-year old Debut, 18-year old Fearless, 20-year old Speak Now, 22-year old Red, 24-year old 1989, 27-year old Reputation, 29-year old Lover, 30-year old Folklore, 30-year old Evermore, 32-year old Midnights, and 34-year old TTPD) are all 5’9 1/4”. All 11 Taylors are the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years because they come from blue time travel Time Machine portals on April 19, 2025 and they never age at all. All 11 Taylors hadn't been together before in all their original respective individual years at all. Each concert of The Eras Residency will run four hours long. The Eras Residency will have no pre-recorded and no lip-syncing. The Taylor Swift Ensemble was officially formed on April 19, 2025, the same day as the first anniversary of the release of The Tortured Poets Department double studio album (both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology) by TTPD as all 11 Taylors appeared from blue time travel Time Machine portals that day (April 19, 2025). Promotion started on April 19, 2025. The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was formed on April 19, 2025 (the same day as the formation of The Taylor Swift Ensemble). All four friendships/relationships were formed when both The Taylor Swift Ensemble and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club were formed: Debtless (Debut and Fearless), 198nights (1989 and Midnights), Lovertation (Reputation and Lover), and Folkmore (Folklore and Evermore). All 11 Taylors learned singing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), dancing (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), and instrumentals (except TTPD, who is a only non instrumentalist) during the training sessions from September 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts previously had rehearsals of The Eras Residency for two months from October 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025. Swiftmania phenomenon (which impacted seismic activities, tailgating, tourism, economy, universities, colleges, fashion etc) began on March 17, 2023 (the opening date of The Eras Tour) and ended on December 8, 2026 (the ending date of The Eras Residency). The Eras Residency's premiere will happen on December 8, 2025, a year after The Eras Tour ended at BC Place in Vancouver and end on December 8, 2026 after a one year run and The Taylor Swift Ensemble will be permanently disbanded after both the chaos and tensions increased constantly and all four relationships broke up. After the audience left the venue when all 11 Taylors were yelling and screaming, all 11 Taylors would start to only grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) and only destroy each and every single actual different specific random musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers). The disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble is the same day (December 8, 2026) as the grand finale of The Eras Residency ended at 4:30 PM on December 8, 2026. Only the grand finale show on December 8, 2026 unfolds with a bittersweet mixture of joy and sorrow. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the official permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). In the grand finale show on December 8, 2026, each Taylor delivers a heartfelt tribute, reflecting on the beauty and tragedy of their journey. However, the emotional weight becomes too much for The Taylor Swift Ensemble to bear. After the audience left immediately before the chaos started, All 11 Taylors (past and future selves because of the perspectives of any Taylor) (Debut, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and TTPD), while yelling and screaming, only really grab each and every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, all the mixers, and all the amplifiers) and only really destroy every single actual specific random different musical instrument (except for all the microphones, all the mixers, all the consoles, all the microphone stands, and all the amplifiers that had been preserved and untouched) during the destruction without an audience on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and they are no longer friends, no longer sisters, and no longer a family and all four relationships (Debut and Fearless, 1989 and Midnights, Reputation and Lover, and Folklore and Evermore) broken and divorces and all 11 Taylors lost all the fans permanently and there are no more fans and just the same person and no final song and no farewell and all 11 Taylors will never sing, dance, see, talk, or share together ever again (even online, send letters, write messages etc) forever on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and channels including YouTube, websites, and social media accounts including on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook have been deleted permanently and all 11 Taylors went back to all their original respective years, now losing memories of The Eras Residency and everything related to The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and losing progress of lessons learned during The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and forgetting The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever and went back to everything related to all their original respective years despite being the same respective ages and same respective eras as they were in all their original respective individual years, using blue original respective time travel Time Machine portals and then The Taylor Swift Ensemble was erased from existence on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and all videos, photos, and audio of The Eras Residency have been erased on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere). Both the releases of The Eras Residency: The Movie concert film and The Eras Residency Live! live album (both scheduled to release on December 31, 2026) were both canceled as a result of the chaos. The Taylor Swift Ensemble's material was forever destroyed, wiped, and erased. The Eras House was now demolished and gone forever on December 8, 2026 that same day after The Taylor Swift Ensemble was disbanded. Both the spirit and the essence of The Taylor Swift Ensemble were gone and would never be echoed and would never linger on everybody on Earth forever. Promotion ended on December 8, 2026. No more possibilities of unexpected reconciliations, chapters, reunions, plans, new music (both collective and individual), activities, legacy, spirits, essences, and even the future for The Taylor Swift Ensemble forever. Don’t expect any and all these things. The Taylor Swift Ensemble will never have a concert tour at all because of the permanent disbandment of The Taylor Swift Ensemble on December 8, 2026 (one year after the premiere) and the chaos. They are all angry, yelling, and screaming forever all the time from that time on. They part ways and they will never sing, dance, talk, communicate, share, send letters to each other, or play together ever again forever amid yelling and screaming all the time constantly (no whispering), leaving the stage replete with memories of what once was — a legendary collaboration that will linger in fans’ hearts forever and The Taylor Swift Ensemble Fan Club was shut down, along with The Taylor Swift Ensemble and hashtags such as #TheTaylorSwiftEnsemble and #ErasResidency wiped the same day as the grand finale of The Eras Residency (December 8, 2026) (one year after the premiere). The Taylor Swift Ensemble was now extinct and gone forever, along with the legacy that was also extinct and gone forever. All 11 Taylor Alison Swifts (all women; she/her) playing musical instruments (except for TTPD), singing and dancing together (different from when they were doing separately in all their original respective individual years) will form "The Taylor Swift Ensemble" and have a collaborative concert residency: (Each Taylor Alison Swift (role in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age) (year) (songs and individual projects in her original individual year)) Debut (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 16) (from 2006) (from the Taylor Swift self titled debut album; Inspired by her outlook on life as a teenager, the lyrics address romantic relationships, friendships, and security. A country album, Taylor Swift incorporates acoustic instruments such as guitars, banjos, and fiddles, and its songs feature pop and pop rock elements) (October 24, 2006), songs (Invisible/Cold As You/The Outside/Mary’s Song (oh my my my)/Stay Beautiful/tied together with a smile/A Place in This World/Tim McGraw/A Perfectly Good Heart/Teardrops on my guitar/picture to burn/Our Song/Should’ve Said No), Promotion (Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006, through Big Machine Records. Debut was involved in the album packaging, designing doodle graphics herself. She included hidden messages with hints at the subjects of her songs in the lyrics printed in the liner notes, inspired by the Beatles' hiding secret messages in their records.[58] She executed the same technique on her subsequent albums.[30][59] Debut said the messages could be interpreted by tracking the capital letters in the order they appear in the lyrics printed in the liner notes.[26] In addition to the eleven-track standard edition, a 15-track deluxe edition contains three new original songs—"I'm Only Me When I'm with You", "Invisible", and "A Perfectly Good Heart", and an alternate version of "Teardrops on My Guitar". An "enhanced version", which includes the music videos for "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tim McGraw", was released on March 18, 2008. The album was preceded by the lead single "Tim McGraw", which was released on June 19, 2006.[62] The single peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking Debut's debut appearance on both charts. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[65] Debut promoted the album performing on televised programs including Good Morning America, The Megan Mullally Show, America's Got Talent, Total Request Live,[68] the CMT Music Awards,[69] and the Academy of Country Music Awards. To maintain her presence on country radio, Debut embarked on a radio tour during a six-month run in 2006. Swift also promoted the album by performing as an opening act for other country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts from October 19 to November 3, 2006. Throughout 2007, she opened for George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint tour, Soul2Soul II Tour. In addition to traditional radio promotion, Debut extensively used her Myspace profile to communicate with her audiences, sharing her daily blogs and song information. Her online marketing strategy boosted the album's popularity among teenagers and young adults.[12] Debut and Big Machine decided to release "Our Song" as a single because of the positive feedback it received on Myspace.[12] Throughout 2007 and 2008, four more singles supported Taylor Swift: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No", all of which peaked within the top forty of the Hot 100 and the top ten of the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] "Teardrops on My Guitar" peaked at number two on the Hot Country Songs chart and had a crossover release to pop radio; it peaked at number seven on the Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) chart, and number 13 on the Hot 100. "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart.[74] With "Our Song", Debut became the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a Hot Country Songs number one.[77] All singles were certified platinum or more by the RIAA, with "Teardrops on My Guitar" (3× Platinum) and "Our Song" (4× Platinum) selling over three million copies each), Sounds of The Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP (October 14, 2007), Beautiful Eyes EP (July 15, 2008), Fundraiser for the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival (August 15, 2006), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve’ 2008 (December 31, 2007), Me and My Gang tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (2006), Bob That Head Tour (with Rascal Flatts as the headlining artist) (June 13, 2006-September 26, 2006), George Strait’s 2007 Tour (with George Strait as the headlining artist) (2007), 2008 CMT Music Awards, Bonfires and Amplifiers Tour (with Brad Paisley as the headlining artist) (April 26, 2007-February 23, 2008), Soul2Soul II Tour (with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the headlining artists) (April 21, 2006-September 1, 2007), Chicago Country Music Festival (2008), WE Fest (2008), 2nd Annual Stagecoach festival (2008), and music videos (I’m only me when I’m with you/Tim McGraw/Teardrops on My Guitar/Beautiful Eyes/Santa Baby/Christmases When You Were Mine/Last Christmas/Silent Night/White Christmas/Christmas Must Be Something More/Picture to Burn)), Fearless (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 18) (from 2008) (from the original Fearless studio album; Fearless named the album Fearless inspired by the title track: "[Being] fearless doesn't mean you're completely unafraid and it doesn't mean that you're bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."[70] All the songs on the album reflected her "fearless" attitude to embrace the hardships and challenges in love and life. Inspired by Fearless's adolescence, Fearless explores love and heartbreak using references to her personal life and fairy tale–inspired lyrical imagery. It features co-writing credits from Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. A country pop album, Fearless features acoustic arrangements driven by a wide variety of string instruments such as banjos, fiddles, mandolins, and electric guitars. Its songs follow the standard verse–chorus–bridge form with dynamic bridges and choruses; The elements of pop, folk, and rock of Fearless led to some critics arguing against its categorization as a country album) (November 11, 2008), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (it was preceded by a rather minimal campaign that relied on social media. Pitchfork included it in their list of the most anticipated albums for spring 2021. On February 11, Fearless announced Fearless (Taylor's Version) on Good Morning America and her social media. The following day, she released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".[32] It peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart and made Swift the second artist after Dolly Parton to have both the original and re-recorded versions of a song atop the chart.[60] Two vault tracks, "You All Over Me" and "Mr. Perfectly Fine", were released for download and streaming on March 25[61] and April 7. Both reached the top 10 on Hot Country Songs; they respectively peaked at number six and number two. Before releasing the track list on April 3, Fearless teased the titles of the vault tracks through an animated clip containing scrambled anagrams on her social media.[63] In the hours leading up to the album's release, Fearless released snippets of some re-recorded tracks across social media platforms. On April 8, the singer-songwriters Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray, whom had been contacted by Fearless, posted clips of themselves dancing to excerpts of "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" on TikTok and "White Horse (Taylor's Version) on Instagram. Other snippets made available on social media were those of "Fifteen (Taylor's Version)" on Snapchat, "Breathe (Taylor's Version)" on Tumblr, and "Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)" on Twitter. She again appeared on Good Morning America to preview "Fearless (Taylor's Version)". Related merchandise including clothes and accessories all featured the extended moniker "Taylor's Version". The New York Times' Ben Sisario commented this promotion created a "communal and celebratory experience" for Fearless's fans who found the music nostalgic and the "Taylor's Version" branding empowering. Republic Records released Fearless (Taylor's Version) on April 9, 2021.[65] The cover artwork is a sepia-toned photograph of Fearless shot from a low camera angle that shows herself with windblown hair locks.[66] In it, she recreates her pose on the original album cover but looks in the opposite direction. The standard physical copies were made available for pre-order on Fearless's website,[69] and CDs with collectible posters available for pre-order exclusively at Target.[70] The vinyl LPs came in two editions, one golden in color and the other red; the former was available on Fearless's website and the other at Target.[71] Fearless appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 13, 2021. In the weeks after the album's release, Fearless put out four streaming-exclusive compilation "chapters" that feature select tracks from Fearless (Taylor's Version): The Halfway Out the Door Chapter,[73] The Kissing in the Rain Chapter,[74] The I Remember What You Said Last Night Chapter,[75] and The From the Vault Chapter. On September 20, 2021, she released limited-edition autographed CDs exclusively via her website for 72 hours.) (April 9, 2021), Promotion (On June 8, 2008, Fearless performed songs from Fearless on Clear Channel's Stripped; the performance was recorded and included in the Platinum Edition reissue.[21] Prior to the album's commercial release, "Change" was made available via the iTunes Store on August 8 as a promotional single. It was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack, a compilation of songs played during the United States' participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[79] A digital campaign launched through the iTunes Store, called "Countdown to Fearless", featured one song released each week during the five weeks leading to the album's release.[80] "Breathe" was released as a promotional single exclusively via Rhapsody on October 21, 2008. Fearless made many television appearances to promote Fearless throughout late 2008, performing on shows including The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[82] Good Morning America,[72] and Late Night with David Letterman. A special CMT Crossroads episode featuring Fearless and rock band Def Leppard singing each other's songs was recorded on October 6 at the Roy Acuff Theater in Nashville,[84] and aired on CMT on November 7, 2008. Her performances at awards shows that year included the Country Music Association Awards and the American Music Awards. Besides live appearances, Fearless used her MySpace account to promote to a young audience, sharing snippets of songs for streaming before they were released to radio, as she had done with her debut album. She continued to appear on televised events through 2009, hosting Saturday Night Live,[87] and performing at awards shows including the 51st Annual Grammy Awards,[88] the CMT Music Awards,[89] and the Country Music Association Awards. At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper-producer Kanye West interrupted Fearless's acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video with "You Belong with Me"—an incident known as "Kanyegate", which received widespread media coverage. Five songs were released as singles from Fearless. The lead single, "Love Story", was released on September 15, 2008.[92] It peaked atop Hot Country Songs and was the first country song to reach number one on Pop Songs, a Billboard chart monitoring pop radio in the United States. The single peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100,[94] number two on the UK Singles Chart, and number one in Australia.[96] The four remaining singles were "White Horse" (December 8, 2008), "You Belong with Me" (April 20, 2009),[98] "Fifteen" (August 31, 2009),[99] and "Fearless" (January 4, 2010). All four peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "You Belong with Me" peaking at number two,[94] and within the top ten of Hot Country Songs, with "You Belong with Me" reaching number one. Similar to "Love Story", "You Belong with Me" was a crossover success,[20][102] becoming the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart, driven mostly by non-country airplay.[103] According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" were the two most-played songs on US radio throughout 2009), Life from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 live album (April 24, 2020), her character of herself in Hannah Montana: The Movie (April 10, 2009), CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard episode (with Def Leppard) (October 6, 2008), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2009 (December 31, 2008), songs (bye bye baby/don’t you/Breathe (with Colbie Colliat/Hey Stephen/Crazier (from Hannah Montana: The Movie)/Half of My Heart (with John Mayer)/Today was a fairytale/Forever & Always/The Way I Loved You/Love Story/you’re not sorry/you Belong with Me/untouchable/watch then fall/Come in with the rain/superstar/Tell Me Why/You all over me (with Maren Morris)/we were happy/That’s when (with Keith Urban)/The Best Day/the other side of the door/Mr. Perfectly Fine/Fifteen), music videos (Love Story/You Belong with Me/White Horse/Change/The Best Day/Fearless), Escape Together World Tour (with Keith Urban as the headlining artist) (June 9, 2009-August 8, 2009), CMC Rocks the Snowys (2009), Children In Need 2009 telethon (November 20, 2009-November 21, 2009), 2009 Florida Strawberry Festival, 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), Kanye West–Taylor Swift incident at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009), 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2010), American Music Awards of 2009, 2009 CMT Music Awards, 2009 Country Music Association Awards, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (2009), CMA Music Festival (2009), Bamajam (2009), and The Fearless Tour (The tour started in Evansville, Indiana on April 23, and visited the United States and Canada over six months. Prior to the Fearless Tour, Fearless headlined three music festivals: the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in February 2009, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Florida Strawberry Festival in March.[105] In October, when the first North American leg finished, Fearless announced a second North American leg beginning on March 4, 2010, in Tampa, Florida.[106] Outside North America, the Fearless Tour visited Australia and Japan in February 2010.[107] The tour was met with high demand, selling out tickets within minutes.[108] Swift wrapped up the North American leg at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on June 5, 2010. The tour grossed over $63 million and played to over 1.1 million fans.) (April 23, 2009 in Evandale, Indiana, United States-July 10, 2010 in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada)), Speak Now (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 20) (from 2010) (from the original Speak Now studio album; a loose concept album about the unsaid things she wanted to deliver to the subjects of her songs. Using confessional songwriting, the album is mostly about heartbreak and reflections on broken relationships, and some tracks were inspired by Speak Now's rising stardom in the public eye to confront her critics and adversaries. She and Nathan Chapman produced Speak Now, which combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dynamic drums, and orchestral strings; the only studio album that was completely self-written by Speak Now herself) (October 25, 2010), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (July 7, 2023), songs (Electric touch (with Fall Out Boy)/Castles Crumbling (with Hayley Williams)/foolish one/Never Grow Up/the story of us/I can see you/when Emma falls in love/better than revenge/timeless/last kiss/superman/dear John/Long Live/Haunted/Innocent/Enchanted/Back to December/The Story of Us/Sparks Fly/Ours/Speak Now), her character of Audrey in The Lorax movie adaptation based on Dr. Seuss book (March 2, 2012), Promotion (Speak Now announced Speak Now on July 20, 2010, in a live stream on Ustream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[58] The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100[59] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[60] It reached number six in Japan,[61] number seven in Canada,[62] and number nine in Australia.[63] On August 18, Speak Now released the album's cover art, which depicts Speak Now with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep-purple gown.[64] On September 15, she announced a Target-exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple.[65] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; the title track was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19. On October 22, Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us". Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25, 2010.[65][67] The Target-exclusive CD+DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][68] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012. To bolster sales of the album, Speak Now had partnerships with Starbucks, Sony Electronics, Walmart, and Jakks Pacific.[71][72] In October 2011, Speak Now partnered with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted". To further promote Speak Now, Speak Now appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews.[16] She performed "Innocent" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards[74] and the American Music Awards in 2010;[75] the Academy of Country Music Awards[76] and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011.[77] She also performed at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.[78] In Europe, Speak Now performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy, and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom and NRJ in France.[79] She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan, where she appeared on the television shows SMAPxSMAP and Music Station.[80] Her round of American television shows included Today, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Dancing with the Stars.[71] She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. After "Mine", Swift released five more singles from Speak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[82] and March 13, 2011.[83] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten in Canada,[62] and "Back to December" reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[84] "The Story of Us" was released to US pop radio on April 19, 2011.[85] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[86] and December 5, 2011.[87] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[88] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the Hot Country Songs chart.[89][90] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.) NBC’s Speak Now Thanksgiving Special (November 25, 2010), music videos (Long Live/Mean/Back to December/Sparks Fly/The Story of Us/Ours/I Can See You/Mine), Speak Now World Tour - Live album (November 21, 2011), 54th Annual Grammy Awards (February 12, 2012), 2010 American Music Awards, and Speak Now World Tour (The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[93] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[94] By April 2011, Speak Now had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[95] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[96] On August 10, 2011, Speak Now released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[97] She released the album Speak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[98] In December 2011, Speak Now announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012. Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries, and grossed $123.7 million.) (February 9, 2011 in Singapore-March 18, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand)), Red (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (the official leader, the greatest singer, the greatest dancer, the most famous member, the most iconic member, the “Taylor Alison Swift”, the most successful member, and the most famous member in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 22) (from 2012) (from the original Red studio album; engaged new producers to experiment with styles beyond the country pop sound of her past albums. The ensemble included Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. Red incorporates styles of pop, country, and rock, using acoustic instruments alongside electronic synths and drum machines) (October 22, 2012), Red (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (On June 18, 2021, Red released the cover art of Red (Taylor's Version) and initially announced that the re-recorded album would be released on November 19, 2021.[5] Alongside the announcement, pre-orders for the digital album were made available.[43] The cover depicts Red wearing red lipstick, a beige peacoat, and a burgundy-colored "Matti" fisherman velvet cap, seated in a vintage 1932 Chevrolet Cabriolet convertible with an autumnal background. Janessa Leoné designed the cap which quickly sold out on Leoné's website.[44][45] The customized ring that Red wears on the cover was designed by one of Red's real-life friends.[46] On August 5, 2021, Red posted a video across her social media, teasing a word puzzle for the fans to solve; it spelled out "Chris Stapleton", "Phoebe Bridgers", "Babe", "Better Man", and "All Too Well Ten Minute Version".[47][48] Concurrently, pre-orders for the album's CDs went up on Red's website.[47] She posted the official track listing on August 6.; On September 30, Red announced Red (Taylor's Version) would be released on November 12, a week earlier than scheduled.[16] She used social media to release snippets of several re-recorded songs prior to the album release: "22" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" via an Instagram story on August 5,[47] "Red" via an Instagram video on October 24,[50] and "Babe" via Tumblr on November 11.[51] Via Republic Records, Red (Taylor's Version) was released for streaming, download, and physical formats of CD and vinyls including limited editions with customized merchandise for the retailors Target Corporation, Walmart, and Urban Outfitters.[52][53] In January 2022, five streaming "chapters" containing tracks from Red (Taylor's Version) were released: Could You Be the One Chapter, She Wrote a Song About Me Chapter, The Slow Motion Chapter, and From the Vault Chapter.; Starbucks partnered with Swift to commemorate the release of Red (Taylor's Version), which coincided with the company's "red cup holiday season".[56] The fitness equipment manufacturer Peloton announced an exclusive collaboration with Red to use songs from the album for their on-demand fitness classes.[57] Red promoted Red (Taylor's Version) via two NBC late-night talk shows, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, which aired back-to-back on November 11.[58] Concurrently with the album's release on November 12, she premiered All Too Well: The Short Film, which accompanied "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" and stars herself, Sadie Sink, and Dylan O'Brien; she also performed the song at the premiere.[59][60] The following day, she appeared as the musical guest and performed "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" on Saturday Night Live.[61] The song was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest number-one song in history, surpassing the 8-minutes-and-37-seconds "American Pie" (1971) by Don McLean.[62] The vault tracks "I Bet You Think About Me" and "Message in a Bottle" were promoted as singles respectively to country radio and pop/adult contemporary radio formats) (November 12, 2021), All Too Well: The Short Film (November 12, 2021), music videos (Begin Again/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Red/22/Everything has changed (with Ed Sheeran)/I Knew You Were Trouble/We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together/All Too Well (10 Minute Version)), VH1 Storytellers: Taylor Swift episode (November 11, 2012), Promotion (On August 13, 2012, via a live webchat held on Google Hangouts,[67] Red announced the album's details and released the lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together",[68] which was her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.[69] An alternative version of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was released to US country radio;[70] it spent 10 weeks atop Hot Country Songs.[71] Both the standard and deluxe versions of Red were released on October 22, 2012.[72] In the United States, the standard edition was available in digital and physical formats, and the deluxe edition containing six extra tracks was available exclusively for physical purchase at Target.[72] Red and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan for Red.[72] To increase sales, Swift had tie-ins with corporations including Starbucks, Keds, Walmart, Walgreens, and Papa John's.[72][73] A day after the release, she began a cycle of television appearances, which included Good Morning America (October 23), Late Show with David Letterman (October 23), The View (October 24), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 25), Katie (October 26), and 20/20 (October 26). She gave interviews to as many as 72 radio stations, mostly in the United States and some from South Africa, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, and Mexico.[72] Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards,[74] the Country Music Association Awards, and the American Music Awards. Red was promoted with further singles. From September 24 until the album's release date, Red previewed one album track each week via Good Morning America as part of a four-week countdown—"Begin Again", "Red", "I Knew You Were Trouble", and "State of Grace"; the first three songs were later released as singles. "Begin Again", released to US country radio on October 1, 2012,[79] peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on Country Airplay.[80] Released to US pop radio on November 27, 2012,[81] "I Knew You Were Trouble" spent seven weeks at number one on Pop Songs[82] and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the top 10 on charts of Australasian and European countries.[84] "Red" was released to US country radio on June 24, 2013. Other singles were "22","Everything Has Changed", and "The Last Time". Despite Red's promotion as a country album, its diverse musical styles sparked a media debate over Swift's status as a country artist. Spin argued Red was difficult to categorize because country music was "the most dynamically vibrant pop genre of the last decade or so".[90] Other critics commented Red had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop.[91] In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Red responded that country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate: "I leave the genre labeling to other people.) songs (Treacherous/I almost do/The Last Time (with Gary Lightbody of The Snow Patrol)/22/holy ground/begin again/starlight/sad beautiful tragic/the lucky one/the moment I knew/girl at home/come back..be here/I Bet you think about me/better man/ronan/forever winter/nothing new (with Phoebe Bridgers)/I bet you think about me (with Chris Stapleton)/Run (with Ed Sheeran)/the very first night/Both of Us (with B.o.B)/Everything Has Changed (with Ed Sheeran)/State of Grace/Red/Stay Stay Stay/Highway Don’t Care (with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban)/Babe/Message in a Bottle), First Brazil concert (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (September 13, 2012), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013 (December 31, 2012), 2013 NRJ Music Awards (January 26, 2013), 56th Annual Grammy Awards (January 26, 2014), 2012 American Music Awards, 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and The Red Tour (On October 26, 2012, she announced the first 58 dates for the North American leg, beginning in Omaha, Nebraska, visiting Canada and the United States throughout the spring and summer of 2013, and concluding in Nashville, Tennessee, in September.[93] To support a high demand, Red held the concerts mostly in sports arenas and stadiums.[92] After the North American leg, the Red Tour visited Australasia, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Red Tour was a box office success. The four shows at Staples Center in Los Angeles extended Swift's total of sold-out shows to 11, making her the solo artist with the most sold-out shows at Staples Center. She was the first female artist to sell out the Sydney Football Stadium since its opening in 1988. Tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within 60 seconds, setting the Chinese record for the fastest sellout.[96] When it ended in June 2014, the tour had grossed $150.2 million and became the highest-grossing tour by a country artist of all time.) (March 13, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States-June 12, 2014 in Singapore)), 1989 (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (the greatest multi-instrumentalist in The Taylor Swift Ensemble) (age 24) (from 2014) (from the original 1989 studio album; Inspired by 1980s synth-pop, the production incorporates dense synthesizers, programmed drum machines, and processed electronic backing vocals—a stark contrast to the acoustic arrangements that had characterized 1989's past albums; titled after 1989’s birth year as a symbolic rebirth; The lyrics expand on her autobiographical songwriting about love and heartbreak, but they depict failed relationships from relatively lighthearted and more complex perspectives.) (October 27, 2014), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) re-recorded album (October 27, 2023), Promotion (1989 marketed 1989 as her first "official pop" album. To bolster sales, 1989 and Big Machine implemented an extensive marketing plan. As observed by Maryn Wilkinson, an academic specialized in media studies, 1989 adopted a "zany" aspect for her 1989 persona. As 1989 had been associated with a hardworking and authentic persona through her country songs, her venture to "artificial, manufactured" pop required intricate maneuvering to retain her sense of authenticity.[82] She used social media extensively to communicate with her fan base. To attract a younger audience, she had promoted her country songs online previously.[83] Her social media posts showcased her personal life, making fans feel engaged with her authentic self and thus cemented their support while attracting a new fan base besides her already large one. She also promoted the album through product endorsements with Subway, Keds, and Diet Coke.[84] 1989 held a live stream via Yahoo! sponsored by ABC News on August 18, where she announced the details of 1989 and released the lead single "Shake It Off", which debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100.[86] To connect further with her supporters, 1989 selected a number of fans based on their engagement on social media and invited them to private album-listening sessions called "the 1989 Secret Sessions".[83] They took place at her properties in Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville, Rhode Island, and London throughout September 2014. The album's standard and deluxe editions were released for download on digital platforms on October 27, 2014.[88] In the United States and Canada, the deluxe edition was available exclusively through Target Corporation. The songs "Out of the Woods" and "Welcome to New York" were released through the iTunes Store as promotional singles on October 14 and 20, respectively.[90] 1989 was supported by a string of commercially successful singles,[91] including Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, and top-10 hits "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".[92] Other singles were "Out of the Woods", previously a promotional single,[93] and "New Romantics".[94] The deluxe edition bonus tracks, which had been available exclusively through Target, were released on the US iTunes Store in 2015. On November 3, 2014, 1989 removed her entire catalog from Spotify, the largest on-demand streaming service at the time, arguing that their ad-supported free service undermined the platform's premium service, which provides higher royalties for songwriters.[96] She had written an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in July 2014, expressing her concerns over the decline of the album as an economic entity following the rise of free, on-demand streaming.[97] Big Machine and 1989 kept 1989 only on paid subscription-required platforms such as Rhapsody and Beats Music.[80] This move prompted an industry-wide debate on the impact of streaming on declining record sales during the digital era. In June 2015, 1989 stated that she would remove 1989 from Apple Music, criticizing the service for not offering royalties to artists during their free three-month trial period.[98] After Apple Music announced that it would pay artists royalties during the free trial period, she agreed to leave 1989 on their service; she then featured in a series of commercials for Apple Music.[99][100] She re-added her entire catalog on Spotify in June 2017. In addition to online promotion, 1989 made many appearances on radio and television.[80] She performed at awards shows including the MTV Video Music Awards[104] and the American Music Awards. Her appearances on popular television talk shows included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America.[80] She was part of the line-up for the iHeartRadio Music Festival,[106] CBS Radio's "We Can Survive" benefit concert,[107] the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show[108] and the Jingle Ball Tour.), The Ellen DeGeneres Show appearance (October 27, 2014), CBS Radio's We Can Survive benefit concert (October 24, 2014), 1989 Secret Session with iHeartRadio (October 27, 2014), The 1989 World Tour Live concert film (December 13, 2015), songs (Welcome to New York/say don’t go/all you had to do was stay/I wish you would/how you get the girl/wonderland/you are in love/suburban legends/now that we don’t talk/sweeter than fiction/Is It Over Now?/Slut!/New Romantics/Clean/This Love), music videos (Shake It Off/Wildest Dreams/Bad Blood/Style/New Romantics/Out of the Woods/Blank Space), iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 (December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, United States-December 22, 2014 in Tampa, Florida, United States), Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode (October 23, 2014), Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Eve 2015 (December 31, 2014), 2014 American Music Awards, 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards (March 29, 2015), 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival (September 19, 2014 and September 20, 2014), her character of Rosemary in The Giver movie (August 15, 2014), 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special after party (February 15, 2015), 2015 BRIT Awards (February 25, 2015), Grammy Museum at L.A. Live (September 30, 2015), Super Saturday Night (February 4, 2017), Diet Coke commercial (2014), The 1989 World Tour (1989 invited various special guests on tour with her, including singers and fashion models the media called 1989's "squad" which received media coverage.[112] The 1989 World Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2015, earning over $250 million at the box office.[113] In North America alone, the tour grossed $181.5 million, setting the record for highest-grossing US tour by a woman.[114] 1989 (later Reputation) broke this record in 2018 with her Reputation Stadium Tour.) (May 5, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan-December 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia), 58th Annual Grammy Awards (February 15, 2016), Formula 1 United States Grand Prix concert (October 22, 2016), and 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show)), Reputation (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 27) (from 2017) (from the Reputation studio album; a response to the media scrutiny on her private life and public image after her previous album, 1989 (2014), propelled her toward global stardom; Inspired by Reputation's romantic relationships and tarnished media image caused by celebrity disputes, the songs on Reputation altogether form a linear narrative about a protagonist expressing anger and vengeance against wrongdoers and finding solace in a blossoming love; an electropop and R&B album with elements of urban styles such as hip hop, trap, and EDM; Reputation opted out of television and press interviews to promote Reputation. Before the album's release, she cleared out her website and social media accounts, which generated widespread media attention; Its densely arranged electronic sound is characterized by programmed drum machines, pulsating synthesizers and bass, and manipulated vocals) (November 10, 2017), Promotion (On August 18, 2017, Reputation blanked out all of her social media accounts,[78] which prompted media speculation on new music.[79] In the following days, she uploaded silent short videos of CGI snakes onto social media, which attracted widespread press attention.[79][80][81] Imagery of snakes was inspired by the West–Kardashian controversy and featured prominently in the album's promotional campaign.[82] On August 23, she announced on Instagram the title Reputation and released the cover artwork.[83] Photographed by Mert and Marcus,[84] the cover is a black-and-white photograph of an expressionless Reputation in slicked-back hair, a loose-fitting grey sweatshirt with a zig-zag stitch on the right shoulder, and a choker necklace.[85] Her name is printed multiple times over one side of her face, in a typeface resembling that used in newspapers.[86] Media outlets interpreted the design as a mockery at the media scrutiny.[g] The cover inspired many internet memes and was listed among the worst album covers of 2017 by Billboard and Exclaim!.[90] The latter dismissed it as a "packaging for a sickly sweet, heavily discounted celebrity fragrance you'd find on the back shelf at Shoppers Drug Mart".[91] Reputation's lead single, "Look What You Made Me Do", was released on August 24.[92] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in just its second week of charting, with the biggest single-week sales and streaming figures of 2017 in the United States[93] and was Reputation's first number one on the UK Singles Chart;[94] its music video broke the record for the most 24-hour views on YouTube.[95] Shortly after the single's release, UPS announced a partnership with Reputation, which included Reputation-branded trucks and award-winning contests promoting the album across US cities.[96] Other corporate tie-ins were a Ticketmaster partnership for a concert tour; an AT&T deal for a behind-the-scenes series chronicling the making of Reputation; and a Target partnership for two deluxe album editions, each featuring an exclusive magazine with poetry, paintings, handwritten lyrics, and behind-the-scenes photography.[97][98] Reputation collaborated with ESPN to preview the second single, "...Ready for It?", during a college football match on September 2;[99] it opened at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake." Prior to the album's release, the tracks "Gorgeous" and "Call It What You Want" were released for download and streaming as promotional singles,[101] and the track "New Year's Day" premiered during the broadcast of an episode of ABC's Scandal.[102] Reputation was released in various territories on digital and physical formats on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records.[103] Although the streaming provider Spotify initially promoted Reputation on its playlists and commercial billboards, Reputation and Big Machine kept the album off streaming platforms until December 1. Throughout late 2017 and early 2018, a string of singles were released to support the album: "End Game" was released to French radio by Mercury Records on November 14,[106] "New Year's Day" impacted US country radio on November 27,[107] and "Delicate" was released to US pop radio on March 12.[108] The last of which was the album's most successful radio single,[5] peaking atop three Billboard airplay charts: Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary.; Although Reputation had actively promoted albums with extensive press interviews and television appearances, she opted out of such a campaign for Reputation.[110] She instead held exclusive secret album-listening sessions within one month in advance for fans selected from social media by herself, hosting them at her homes in Rhode Island, Los Angeles, London, and Nashville.[110] The secret sessions were reserved for 500 fans in total; behind-the-scenes footage was released on Good Morning America on November 7, 2017.[102] She appeared on the cover for British Vogue, for which she appointed her own photographers and published a self-written poem instead of giving an interview.[111] In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music in May 2019, Reputation said she turned down interviews because she felt no need to explain the album and used music as the only medium to convey her thoughts and feelings. On the title's all lowercase styling, she said it was because the album "wasn't unapologetically commercial"—that it "took the most amount of explanation, and yet it's the one [she] didn't talk about". Within Reputation's first release week, Reputation performed on Saturday Night Live ("...Ready for It?", "Call It What You Want") and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ("New Year's Day").), Saturday Night Live episode (November 11, 2017), Taylor Swift sexual assault trial (with David Mueller) (August 14, 2017), 2018 American Music Awards, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon episode (November 14, 2017), music videos (I don’t wanna live forever (with Zayn)/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/…Ready for It?/Look What You Made Me Do/Delicate), songs (gorgeous/dancing with our hands tied/don’t blame me/dress/call it what you want/this is why we can’t have nice things/king of my heart/so it goes/New Year’s Day/End Game (with Ed Sheeran and Future)/King of My Heart/Getaway Car), Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour concert film (December 31, 2018), and Reputation Stadium Tour (it featured supporting acts such as Charli XCX and Camila Cabello.[114] The tour's visual and stage settings incorporated prominent snakes imagery.[115] It encompassed 53 shows across four continents and wrapped up on November 21, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan.[116] The track "Getaway Car" was released as an Australasia-exclusive single to support the Oceanic leg of the Reputation tour in October and November. On completion of its 38-show North American leg, with $266.1 million grosed, it surpassed the Rolling Stones' 70-show US leg of their A Bigger Bang Tour ($245 million; 2005–2007) to become the all-time highest-grossing North American tour.[118] In total, the Reputation Stadium Tour grossed $345.7 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.[119] The second show at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was recorded and released as a Netflix exclusive on December 31, 2018.) (May 8, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-November 21, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan)), Lover (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 29) (from 2019) (from the Lover studio album; first album after her departure from Big Machine Records, which caused a public dispute over the ownership of Lover's past albums; a "love letter to love", the album explores wide-ranging emotions like infatuation, commitment, lust, and heartache; a few songs discuss political issues such as LGBT rights and feminism. The production incorporates a 1980s-inspired electropop, pop rock, and synth-pop sound characterized by atmospheric synthesizers, mid-tempo rhythms, and acoustic instruments, with eclectic elements of country, folk, and funk; Lover extensively promoted Lover through television shows, magazine covers, and press interviews. Lover's cover art and visual aesthetic feature bright pastel colors) (August 23, 2019), Promotion (Whereas Lover avoided social media and public appearances during promotion of Reputation, she embarked on an extensive promotional campaign for Lover on social media, televised events, and press interviews. Media speculation on Lover's follow-up to Reputation arose when she appeared at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards in March, where she was adorned with butterfly motifs and pastel tones, the aesthetic she later used in her clothing for public appearances.[79] Her social media posts showed her outgoing, comfortable persona, departing from the dark, antagonistic image she adopted for Reputation. Lover conducted interviews with publications including Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Vogue, and Rolling Stone, where she openly spoke about her adjusted personal life.[80] A few weeks before the album's release, Lover invited a select group of fans to private Secret Sessions listening parties in London, Nashville, and Los Angeles; she had hosted similar sessions for 1989 and Reputation.[81] She also gave interviews on the American morning television programs CBS Sunday Morning and Good Morning America,[82] and the talk shows The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Swift promoted Lover with corporate tie-ins and promotional deals, including a merchandise deal with Capital One, airplay deals with SiriusXM and iHeartMedia, a deal with YouTube Music with Lover hosting a live stream on the platform, an Amazon deal featuring images of Lover on packaging and an exclusive concert for Amazon Prime users, and a Target Corporation deal to distribute four deluxe editions of Lover on CD; the deluxe editions were also available on Swift's website.[78] Each deluxe edition contains a CD with two bonus audio memos, a blank journal, a poster and different bonus content of Lover's old journal entries and photos.[86] She also collaborated with the English fashion designer Stella McCartney on a limited-edition merchandise collection. Lover was released on both digital and physical formats on August 23, 2019, through Republic Records;[78] it was her first album after ending her 12-year contract with Big Machine Records, her first released on streaming from its first week, and the first whose master recording she owned. Leading up to the release, Lover was involved in a public dispute over the ownership of her Big Machine Records albums' master recordings. In a social media post on June 30, 2019, after Big Machine had been acquired by manager Scooter Braun, Lover accused the label of having neglected her desire to acquire the master recordings and called the deal with Braun, whom she deemed an "incessant, manipulative [bully]", the "worst-case scenario".[79] After Lover was released, Lover began implementing her plan to re-record her past albums. Lover performed on many televised shows, starting with a performance of "Me!" with Brendon Urie at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards on May 1. She again performed the song with Urie on The Voice, and alone on Germany's Next Topmodel,[89] The Graham Norton Show, and the French version of The Voice. At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, where she won three awards, Lover opened the show with a medley of "You Need to Calm Down" and "Lover".[92] Swift later performed Lover songs on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Saturday Night Live,[94] NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert, the Jingle Bell Ball 2019 in London, and iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball in New York City. She also promoted the album on Nippon TV's Sukkiri Morning Show in Tokyo and at the Singles' Day Countdown Gala by Alibaba Group in Shanghai. At the 2019 American Music Awards, at which Lover was honored as the Artist of the Decade, she performed a medley of "The Man", "Lover", and her past singles. On May 17, 2020, ABC aired a concert special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, which was filmed at her September 2019 one-off concert in Paris.[101] Lover planned to embark on a worldwide festival and concert tour titled Lover Fest, which was due to begin in mid-2020 and included four shows in the United States, ten shows in Europe, and two shows in Brazil. It was officially cancelled in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Lover (Live from Paris) live album (May 19, 2020), Alibaba Singles’ Day Gala (November 11, 2019), her character of Bombalurina in Cats movie adaptation based on Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (December 16, 2019), Saturday Night Live episode (October 5, 2019), Strictly Come Dancing finale (December 14, 2019), Amazon Prime Day concert (July 10, 2019), City of Lover one-off concert (September 9, 2019), Miss Americana Netflix documentary (January 23, 2020), 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (August 26, 2019), American Music Awards of 2019 (November 24, 2019), Capital One Savor commercial (July 26, 2019), Taylor Swift masters dispute (with Big Machine Records, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun) (June 30, 2019), One World: Together at Home benefit concert (April 18, 2020), 2019 Billboard Music Awards, Tiny Desk concerts episode (October 28, 2019), We Can Survive benefit concert (October 19, 2019), music videos (Lover/You Need To Calm Down/Me (with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)/The Man), and songs (daylight/Beautiful Ghosts/cruel summer/I forgot that you existed/paper rings/the archer/London boy/death by a thousand cuts/Only the Young/Soon You’ll Get Better (with The Chicks)/I think he knows/False God/it’s nice to have a friend/Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince/Cornelia Street)), Folklore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Folklore pandemic surprise studio album; Conceived during quarantine in early 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Folklore explores themes of escapism, nostalgia, and romanticism. Using a set of characters and story arcs to depict fictional narratives, it departs from the autobiographical songwriting that had characterized Folklore's past albums. Experimenting with new musical styles for Folklore, Folklore consists of mellow ballads driven by piano, strings, and muted percussion; The album's title was inspired by the lasting legacy of folktales, and its visual aesthetic adopts cottagecore) (July 24, 2020), Promotion (Folklore was a surprise album. It marked the first time Folklore abandoned her traditional album rollout, opting to release suddenly due to intuition; she stated, "If you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world." She unveiled the album via her social media on July 23, 2020, 16 hours prior to its release to digital music platforms at midnight. Swift informed Republic Records about the new album only a few hours before its release, thus it was not widely and immediately available at retail.[111] Deluxe CDs and vinyl LPs with seven other alternate covers were sold exclusively on Folklore's website. The standard edition "In the Trees" CDs of Folklore were released to retail on August 7, 2020, while "Meet Me Behind the Mall" CDs were made exclusive to Target. In the United Kingdom, CDs were made available on August 4, 2020, by EMI Records. The formerly physically exclusive Folklore deluxe, featuring the bonus track "The Lakes", was released to digital platforms on August 18, 2020. Starting on August 20, 2020, a limited number of autographed Folklore CDs were delivered to various indie record shops in the US and Scotland to support small businesses in the pandemic.[116][117] Folklore mailed her Folklore cardigans to celebrity friends and well-wishers.[118] Four six-song compilations of Folklore tracks were released to streaming, based on the thematic cohesion between them; The Escapism Chapter, The Sleepless Nights Chapter, The Saltbox House Chapter and The Yeah I Showed Up at Your Party Chapter were released in August–September 2020. Folklore's earlier future ninth studio album, Evermore, is a sequel to Folklore. She dubbed them "sister albums".) Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions Disney+ concert film (It was directed and produced by Folklore, seeing her perform all the tracks of Folklore in an intimate setting at Long Pond Studio, and sharing the stories behind the songs, with Antonoff and Dessner.[16] Alongside the film's premiere, Folklore's third live album, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (From the Disney+ Special), containing the acoustic versions from the film, was released to streaming platforms) (November 25, 2020), Capital One "Cardigan" commercial (November 9, 2020), songs (the 1/this is me trying/my tears ricochet/mirrorball/illicit affairs/mad woman/invisible string/epiphany/seven/peace/hoax/august/the lakes/The Last Great American Dynasty/Cardigan/Exile (with Bon Iver)/Betty), and music video (Cardigan)), Evermore (singer, dancer, and guitarist) (age 30) (from 2020) (from the Evermore pandemic surprise studio album; an offshoot of "the folklorian woods"—an escapist, cottagecore-inspired direction she first ideated with Folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic; she regards them as sister albums. Evermore blends alternative rock, indie folk, and chamber pop styles, carried by fingerpicked guitars, somber pianos, lavish strings, and sparse percussion; Impressionist storytelling and mythopoeia dominate its lyrical technique. The subject matter has been described as an anthology of tales about love, marriage, infidelity, and grief, exploring the complexities of human emotion) (December 11, 2020), Promotion (Evermore was released on December 11, 2020, two days before Swift's 31st birthday, to digital music and streaming platforms only. It is a "sister album" to Folklore, which was launched less than five months prior; both of them are surprise albums announced 16 hours prior to their midnight releases. Evermore marked the second time Evermore abandoned her long, traditional album rollout. The CDs were released on December 18, 2020. The bonus tracks of Evermore deluxe edition, "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time to Go", which were formerly physical-exclusive, were released to streaming services on January 7, 2021. Cassette tapes and vinyl LPs of Evermore were released on February 21, and May 28, 2021, respectively. Billboard reported that the delayed release of the album's physical formats is owed to its surprise release and the time-consuming manufacturing process of physical albums, specifically the vinyl copies. Limited number of autographed CDs were sold at select independent record stores. On December 14, 2020, Evermore appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the album. On a December 2020 episode of Howard Stern's Sirius XM radio show, English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney revealed that Evermore originally decided to postpone the release of Evermore by one week to respect the original December 11 release date of his eighteenth studio album, McCartney III; upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on December 18 instead so that Evermore could move forward with her Evermore rollout as initially planned. Three six-song compilations consisting of tracks from both Evermore and Folklore, titled The Dropped Your Hand While Dancing Chapter, The Forever Is The Sweetest Con Chapter, and The Ladies Lunching Chapter (all stylized in all lowercase), were released to streaming platforms on January 21, January 27, and February 4, 2021, respectively), 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (March 14, 2021), music video (Willow), and songs (champagne problems/gold rush/‘tis the damn season/happiness/ivy/closure/it’s time to go/dorothea/long story short/cowboy like me/right where you left me/Coney Island (with The National)/No Body, No Crime (with Haim)/Marjorie/Evermore (with Bon Iver)/tolerate it/Carolina)), Midnights (singer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist) (age 32) (from 2022) (from the Midnights studio album; a concept album about nocturnal ruminations inspired by her sleepless nights. The autobiographical songwriting explores broad emotions such as regrets, self-criticism, fantasies, heartbreak, and infatuation, using confessional yet cryptic lyrics that allude to her personal life and public image; features a subdued electronic soundscape, characterized by mid-tempo rhythms, analog synthesizers, sparse drum machine beats, and digitally manipulated vocals; classify the album as synth-pop, electropop, dream pop, and bedroom pop, infused with electronica, hip hop, R&B, and alternative elements) (October 21, 2022), Promotion (Midnights extensively used social media to promote Midnights.[1][12] After the announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards, Midnights's website and the canvases of her songs on Spotify were updated with images of a clock.[96] Using the video-sharing platform TikTok, from September 21 to October 7, 2022, she released a 13-episode video series called Midnights Mayhem with Me, where she announced the title of each track in a randomized order per episode. In each episode, Midnights rolled a lottery cage containing 13 ping pong balls numbered from 1 to 13, each representing a track of the album, and when a ball dropped out, she disclosed the title of the corresponding track through a telephone. On October 17, Midnights posted on her social media an itinerary titled Midnights Manifest, which included promotional events she had planned. Swift partnered with Spotify to display some lyrics from Midnights on billboards in five cities: New York, London, São Paulo, Nashville, and Mexico City. Another partnership with Apple Fitness+ included three exercise programs designed around Midnights's music, featuring tracks from Midnights. Although Midnights extensively promoted Midnights and announced multiple release pre-orders, she did not conduct press interviews or preview music prior to the album's release. Republic Records released Midnights on October 21, 2022. The standard edition was made available for streaming, download, cassette, four CD variants, and four vinyl LP variants. Target stores exclusively sold a Lavender Edition on CD and vinyl LP, and Capital One distributed a box set that contained the CD and a Swift-branded T-shirt. The 3am Edition was surprise-released onto streaming and digital services three hours after the standard edition. From October 21 to 26, iHeartRadio aired a program called iHeartRadio Brings You Midnights with Taylor, which featured tracks from the album and stories behind the songs told by Midnights herself. Midnights appeared, but did not perform, on the talk shows The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 24 and The Graham Norton Show on October 28.; The lead single, "Anti-Hero", was released on October 21, 2022. In the United States, it became the best-selling song of 2022 and made Swift the first artist to have a number-one song on the Radio Songs chart in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s decades. "Bejeweled" and "Question...?" were released for limited-time digital download exclusively through Midnights's website on October 25 as promotional singles. Republic Records released "Lavender Haze" to US radio as the second single on November 29, 2022, and "Karma" as the third on May 1, 2023. A remix of "Karma" featuring the rapper Ice Spice was released on May 26, 2023. On the Billboard Hot 100, "Anti-Hero" reached number one, and both "Lavender Haze" and "Karma" peaked at number two. Media publications commented on the promotion for Midnights. Unterberger and Slate's Chris Molanphy described it as a middle ground between a traditional album rollout and the surprise-release strategy of Folklore and Evermore. Molanphy argued that Midnights employed an optimal promotion for every consumption metric: the multiple CD and LP offers would boost physical sales, the limited-time download tracks would increase digital sales, and the surprise 3am Edition release would prompt higher streams.[119] The fact that there were no pre-release singles prompted speculation on the album's sound and content. El País described it as an "art of suspense".[120] In The Washington Post, Emily Yahr wrote that the TikTok tracklist reveal prompted Midnights's fans to interpret possible Easter eggs, which resulted in a "frenzy" and boosted the anticipation for the album), Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film (October 13, 2023), Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy, her character of Elizabeth Meekins in Amsterdam thriller movie (October 7, 2022), Capital One Venture X "Multiple Taylors" commercial (November 1, 2022), New York University honorary degree Doctorate of Fine Arts ceremony (May 18, 2022), the original The Eras Tour (To support Midnights and her other albums, Midnights embarked on the Eras Tour, which she described as retrospective journey through her "musical eras".[122] Running from March 2023 to December 2024, the tour spanned 149 dates and visited five continents once it concluded. Ticketmaster cancelled its US public on-sale due to insufficient inventory, which led to a debacle highly debated in the press. After the first 60 shows in 2023, the Eras Tour grossed over $1 billion, becoming the first tour to do so and the highest-grossing concert tour in history.[126] While Midnights was on tour, a Til Dawn Edition of Midnights containing the bonus track "Hits Different" was released to digital platforms, and a Late Night Edition containing the bonus track "You're Losing Me" was sold as concert-exclusive merchandise starting from the East Rutherford show on May 26, 2023) (March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, United States-March 9, 2024 in Singapore) (including the 10th and final act "Midnights" in each concert; The Eras Tour only had Midnights performing all of the 10 acts/eras from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Evermore, Reputation, Speak Now, Red, Folklore, 1989, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself back then)), songs (The Great War/Hits Different/bigger than the whole sky/you’re on your own, kid/high infidelity/glitch/paris/labyrinth/bejeweled/maroon/mastermind/Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve/Dear Reader/snow on the beach (with Lana Del Rey)/Anti-Hero/Question….?/Lavender Haze/You’re losing me (from the vault)/Sweet Nothing), and music videos (Anti-Hero/Lavender Haze/Karma (with Ice Spice)), and TTPD (she/her) (singer and dancer) (age 34) (from 2024) (from the The Tortured Poets Department double studio album; a "lifeline" songwriting project amidst the heightened fame and media scrutiny ensuing from The Eras Tour. The songs introspect on her public and private lives, detailing tumult and sorrow via motifs of self-awareness, mourning, anger, humor, and delusion; is a minimalist synth-pop, folk-pop, and chamber pop effort with rock and country stylings. The composition is largely mid-tempo, driven by a mix of synthesizers and drum machines with piano and guitar, whereas the visual aesthetic draws mainly from dark academia; both parts: The Tortured Poets Department and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology; The lack of an apostrophe in the official title, as in The Tortured Poets' Department, was the subject of a debate over grammatical correctness. Scholars stated that TTPD employed Tortured Poets as an attributive noun, as in the case with the 1989 drama film Dead Poets Society, and not as a possessive noun that warrants an apostrophe. The cover artwork, photographed by Beth Garrabrant, is a black-and-white glamor photo shot of TTPD lying on a bed wearing black lingerie: a see-through top and high waist shorts, from the Row and Yves Saint Laurent. Both the artwork and title were parodied by numerous brands, organizations, sports teams, and franchises, and inspired numerous memes. Media outlets described the album's visual aesthetic as gothic, especially dark academia) (April 19, 2024), Promotion (After the Grammy announcement, TTPD revealed the standard track listing via social media on February 6, 2024. TTPD announced four physical editions that were each titled after a corresponding bonus track: "The Manuscript", "The Bolter", "The Albatross", and "The Black Dog"; she announced the latter three editions during the Australian and Singaporean shows of the Eras Tour. She partnered with Target for an exclusive "Phantom Clear" collector's vinyl edition. The album was promoted on digital platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads, prompting Swifties to search for Easter eggs.[86] It included five Swift-curated Apple Music playlists containing her old songs inspired by the five stages of grief; a pop-up library of curated articles at The Grove, Los Angeles, hosted by Spotify;[88] QR code murals in various cities worldwide that led to unlisted YouTube shorts on TTPD's channel; a countdown to the album's release revealed upon refreshing TTPD's Instagram profile; and special shimmer effects on Threads posts tagged with hashtags related to TTPD and the album. iHeartRadio and Sirius XM announced special programs with exclusive content from TTPD to celebrate the album's release; the former temporarily rebranded as "iHeartTaylor".; The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, 2024. A double album edition, subtitled The Anthology and containing 15 bonus tracks, was surprise-released digitally two hours later. Two days earlier, the standard edition of the album was leaked, which resulted in the phrase "Taylor Swift leak" being temporarily banned from searches on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The Tortured Poets Department was available in 19 physical variants—nine CD, six vinyl, and four cassette variants, with deluxe CDs and cassettes being exclusive to TTPD's official website.[97] Physical copies of the album included an original poem by the American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks. "Fortnight" was released as the lead single in conjunction with the album, accompanied by a music video. Universal Music released "I Can Do It with a Broken Heart" to Italian radio on July 2. The Anthology was released onto vinyl and CD formats on November 29. From May 2024, starting with the Paris shows, TTPD revamped the set list of the Eras Tour to include songs from The Tortured Poets Department in a new act, which she informally described as "Female Rage the Musical". She released live versions of certain songs as bonus tracks on the physical album via her website exclusively to US customers. Other limited editions of the physical album included acoustic versions of five tracks. Limited digital variants contained first draft phone demo recordings of four tracks, and the Eras Tour live recordings of some tracks from the Paris, Stockholm, Lyon, and London shows. The release of bonus-track versions was a way for Swift and her fans to maintain the album's number-one position on the charts, a method TTPD and other artists have previously utilized to boost album sales and chart positions), music videos (Fortnight (with Post Malone)/I Can Do It with a Broken Heart), the updated The Eras Tour (May 9, 2024 in Paris, France-December 8, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) (including brand new act "The Tortured Poets Department" between "1989" act and "Acoustic Set" (The Eras Tour only had TTPD performed all of the 10 eras/acts from start to finish (Lover, Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Reputation, Folklore & Evermore, 1989, The Tortured Poets Department, Acoustic Set, and Midnights) all by herself), Super Bowl LVII appearance (with Travis Kelce) (February 11, 2024), 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards (April 1, 2024), The Eras Tour Book (became the year's best-selling book with a over a million copies sold within a week in the US alone; is a coffee table book available only through Target that includes visual highlights from Midnights and TTPD’s both respective versions of The Eras Tour, which kicked off March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and ends December 8, 2024, in Vancouver. The book includes more than 500 pictures, including never-released behind-the-scenes images. It also details insider information about the tour, such as how long it takes to set up the stage for each tour stop, how she gets into the concert venue without being detected, and how the crew operated the Roomba-like device TTPD swished around the stage on) (November 29, 2024), 66th Annual Grammy Awards (February 4, 2024), 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, and songs (Loml/I can fix him (no really I can)/Imgonnagetyouback/Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus/How did it end?/I look in people’s windows/the prophecy/down bad/the smallest man who ever lived/the alchemy/I hate it here/cassandra/robin/the manuscript/the albatross/the alchemy/peter/the bolter/so high school/my boy only breaks his favorite toys/Guilty As Sin?/The Tortured Poets Department/Florida!!! (with Florence and the Machine)/The Black Dog/So Long, London/Thank You aImee/Who’s Afraid of the Little Old Me/I Can Do It With A Broken Heart/Clara Bow)). Debut plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Fearless plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Speak Now plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, Red plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and electric guitar, 1989 plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Reputation plays all three instruments: synthesizers, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Lover plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, folklore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, evermore plays only one instrument: acoustic guitar, Midnights plays both instruments: acoustic guitar and synthesizers, and TTPD is the only Taylor Alison Swift to not play any instruments!](https://media.fanfics.com/849a25d4-62e3-4116-9e77-1a08c01671ed-thumbnail.jpg)
# The Eras Residency
**Bart's Nuclear Debate**
The Weight of Expectations
**The Boy Who Dreamed of Stars**
The Christmas Spirit That Went Terribly Wrong