Taylor Swift announces "1989 (Taylor's Version)" and release date

"To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done."
 By 
Meera Navlakha
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A vinyl of "1989 (Taylor's Version)".
Credit: Taylor Swift.

Our wildest dreams have been realised. Taylor Swift has announced her next re-recorded album: 1989 (Taylor's Version). The latest album comes off the heels of her redone releases Fearless, Red, and Speak Now.

The singer disclosed the news to fans on Wednesday night during her Eras Tour in California, at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. Swift also posted the news on her social media accounts ("Surprise!!"), writing that 1989 changed her life and that this was her "favorite re-record."

Following the announcement, the stadium projected "1989 (Taylor's Version" in glittering letters.


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The album 1989 was released in 2014, originally featuring 13 songs that include mega-hits like "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", "Style" "Wildest Dreams", and "Out of the Woods". The album ranked No.1 on the Billboard 200, where it remained in the top ten for a full year. The re-recording version will see 21 songs, with five unreleased originals making their debut. Of the new songs, the singer said that she "can’t believe they were ever left behind."

1989 (Taylor's Version) will release on Oct. 27. The vinyl editions are already available on the singer's website, with special edition deluxe CDs.

Swift began her re-recording journey in 2021, releasing her back catalog to reclaim the rights to her original music recorded with Big Machine Records, rights which were bought by Swift's former manager Scooter Braun for $300 million, then sold without giving Swift the option. During her (Taylor's Version) era, she's breaking many records in the process.

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Meera Navlakha

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture Reporter at Mashable. 

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