Surprise! Taylor Swift’s 1989 is the next “Version”.
Swift’s social accounts let fly the news that many had been waiting for, that the 1989 “Version” was “on its way,” with a release date of Oct. 27, she confirms.
Initially issued in 2014, 1989 is the album that “changed my life in countless ways,” continues Swift, adding that “it fills me with such excitement to announce” her “Version.”
And there’s an added incentive, as if Swifties needed any more hype. “To be perfectly honest,” TayTay writes, “this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!”
1989 (Taylor’s Version) will be Swift’s fourth “Version,” since announcing her re-recording project in 2019. The previous three all logged time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) with two weeks in 2021, Red (Taylor’s Version) with one week in 2021, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) with two weeks in 2023.
With 21 total “From The Vault” songs across those three Version albums, Swift has scored multiple top 10 hits on the Hot 100, earned traction at pop radio, and even scored a No. 1, with the 10-minute version of “All Too Well”.
The original recording of 1989 spent a whopping 11 weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 following its release.
1989 had been a hot pick for Version No. 4, particularly so given that Swift has already shared a small handful of tracks from it, including “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version),” following the song’s viral turn on TikTok, in November 2021, then “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” which turned up in the trailer for the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Swift seems to set and smash records with relative ease. This year, the pop superstar collected her 12th No. 1 with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most among women, while she also becoming the first living artist in nearly 60 years with four concurrent albums in the top 10, and nailing 11 albums on the entire 200-position chart for the first time.
As the on-sale for her blockbuster The Eras Tour broke records in Australia, she swamped the ARIA Albums Chart, securing the top 5 positions in a single frame, an all-time record.
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