The pop star unveils the release date, cover art, and track listing
Taylor Swift has detailed her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. The 12-song project will be available on sweat and perfume orange glitter vinyl and cassette, CD, and digitally on October 3rd via Republic Records.
Four limited edition deluxe CD versions will be available through her website, containing a keychain, necklace, or bracelet; collectible artwork; three double-sided photo cards; and a colored glitter jewelry box, all contained in a high gloss box featuring the front and back cover album artwork.
The limited edition deluxe CDs are available until August 16th, while supplies last.
“So this is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl. It comes out October 3rd, and this album is about what was going on behind the scenes in my inner life during this tour, which was so exuberant and electric and vibrant. And it just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life. And so that effervescence has come through on this record. And like, you said, bangers. And we were just like, there’s no other songs coming. It’s not like, like with Tortured Poets Department, I was like, here’s a data dump of everything I’ve thought, felt in two or three years,” she says. “So here’s 31 songs. This is 12. There’s not a 13th. There’s not a 14th. There’s not other ones coming. This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time. And I also wanted it to be just every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, you know, and, and, and you couldn’t take one out and it’s the same album. You couldn’t add one and it be, it’s just right. And that focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. I tend to love to write lots and lots of music. So it’s a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, like I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together, like a perfect puzzle, that these 12 songs from my 12th album, it just, I feel like we achieved that and I’m really happy about that.”
The project’s first single is still yet to be released.
Today also sees Swift’s podcast debut on New Heights, hosted by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce, where she unveiled the cover art.
Last spring, Swift released her 11th full-length studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, which shattered countless records upon release, including the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, landed on top of the Billboard Hot 100, marking Taylor’s seventh Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 debut, and her 12th overall No. 1 on the chart. The project makes Swift the only artist to ever hold the entire top 14 on the Hot 100. It also breaks the record for most consecutive new albums with a Hot 100 No. 1 hit with eight and broke the record for most simultaneous Hot 100 debuts with 31.
In May, Swift unveiled that she purchased the masters to her first six albums, after a long battle with her former label, Big Machine. In 2019, current label owner Scooter Braun, who’s Ithaca Holdings LLC purchased the label mid-2019, sold them to Shamrock Holdings for upwards of $300 million. Swift says she had attempted to purchase the masters to no avail while also being caught up in live performing rights of the same songs. She decided to re-record her first six projects, four of which have been released and broke records with her fans clamoring for more.
Last year, Pollstar named crowned Swift with the record for the highest-grossing tour of all time with The Eras Tour. The 21-month trek, which kicked off in 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, and wrapped in December 2024 in Vancouver with her 149th show, grossed over $2.077 billion in ticket sales, doubling the gross ticket sales of any other concert in history. Over 10.168 million people attended the shows worldwide, the first for any solo artist.
- The Fate of Ophelia
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Opalite
- Father Figure
- Eldest Daughter
- Ruin The Friendship
- Actually Romantic
- Wi$h Li$t
- Wood
- Cancelled!
- Honey
- The Life of a Showgirl featuring Sabrina Carpenter
🚨| Taylor Swift reveals the cover of The Life of a Showgirl and shares that she started working on the album during The Eras Tour!
— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSUpdating) August 13, 2025
