Earlier this night (Monday, August 11), Taylor Swift up to date her web site with a clock counting all the way down to 12:12 a.m. Jap Commonplace Time on August 12. Now, she’s introduced a brand new album. The Lifetime of a Showgirl will mark Swift’s twelfth studio album and follow-up to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division and its prolonged version, The Anthology. It’s at the moment obtainable to pre-order on her web site, although a proper launch date has but to be shared.
On Wednesday, Swift will seem on New Heights, the podcast hosted by her boyfriend—Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce—and his brother, Jason Kelce. In a clip from the episode now posted to her Instagram, she reveals a mint inexperienced briefcase with the letters “TS” in orange lettering. “I need to present you one thing,” Swift says. “That is my model new album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl.” Nonetheless, the duvet artwork is blurred out. Watch the clip beneath.
In Might, a re-recorded model of “Look What You Made Me Do,” the lead single from Swift’s 2017 album Repute, appeared in The Handmaid’s Story’s closing season. Nonetheless, followers who anticipated the upcoming announcement of Repute (Taylor’s Model) have been confirmed incorrect when, later that month, Swift shared that she had purchased again the grasp recordings for her first six studio albums, which had been acquired by Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings LLC in 2019 and offered to Los Angeles non-public fairness agency Shamrock Capital the next 12 months. Based on Swift, a re-recorded model of her self-titled debut album is full, however Repute (Taylor’s Model) might stay unfinished.
The ultimate present of Swift’s Eras Tour occurred on December 8, 2025. The practically two-year, 149-concert enterprise reportedly offered over $2 billion in tickets, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time. The Eras Tour spawned a companion guide and a three-hour film. On the 2025 Grammys, Swift was nominated in six classes; she took residence no trophies, however did current Beyoncé with the award for Finest Nation Album.
Swift introduced The Tortured Poets Division onstage on the 2024 Grammy Awards after successful Finest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights. It debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, marking her 14th No. 1 album, broke the document for many weekly vinyl LP gross sales (a document beforehand held by Swift herself), and have become the primary album to hit one billion streams on Spotify inside every week of its launch. Swift is at the moment tied with Jay-Z for essentially the most No. 1 albums as a solo artist.
