Taylor Swift’s rerelease of her 1989 album is officially here.
Taylor Swift initially revealed during a concert in August at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, that the next “Taylor’s Version” would be from her 1989 album, which was first released in October 2014.
Reasons behind Taylor Swift’s
album re-recording:
Taylor Swift’s goal of completely owning her music has led her to re-record and release her first six albums. In 2019, Big Machine Records sold Scooter Braun the recordings from the first six albums, and Braun then sold them to a private equity firm. Swift voiced her disagreement with the sale in clear terms and declared that she would re-record all of her early albums with Big Machine. She has not only created music videos but also released “from the vault” recordings and updated album covers.
1989 (Taylor’s Version) broke the record for the most streamed album in a single day with over 110 million audio streams on its day of release. Taylor Swift’s album, Midnights, previously held this record.
Spotify writes, “She’s done it again. On October 27th Taylor Swift became to most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) became Spotify’s most streamed album in a single day in 2023 so far.”
Swift’s official social media accounts shared the news as well:
The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways, and it fills me with such excitement to announce that my version of it will be out October 27. To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!
— Taylor Swift
Each of Taylor Swift’s new recordings of her original albums has featured multiple unreleased songs “from the vault” that didn’t make the cut at the time of the initial release. On September 20, Swift announced the titles of the five vault tracks from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”:
- “Sl*t!”
- “Is It Over Now?”
- “Now That We Don’t Talk”
- “Say Don’t Go”
- “Suburban Legends”
