Taylor Swift revealed the art, release date and tracklist for her upcoming album “The Life of a Showgirl” on Wednesday, discussing the record further on the “New Heights” podcast as it garnered over 1.2 million concurrent viewers.
Swift teased the album Tuesday. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
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Key Facts
- The new album, Swift’s 12th, will be released on Oct. 3, according to her website, which featured a countdown Wednesday that revealed album pre-orders on vinyl, CD, and cassette.
- During the podcast, co-hosted by her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, Swift discussed buying back the rights to her first six albums, her $2 billion-grossing Eras Tour and “The Life of a Showgirl.”
- The new album will have 12 songs, the title track of which will feature Sabrina Carpenter, a fellow pop singer who was nominated for six Grammy awards and won two at this year’s ceremony.
Forbes Valuation
We estimate Swift’s net worth at $1.6 billion. The popstar became a billionaire in Oct. 2023 amid the Eras Tour, which grossed $2 billion and spanned 149 shows across five continents.
Key Background
“The Life of a Showgirl” will be released nearly a year and a half after Swift’s last album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” which sold over six million copies and marked one of Swift’s most commercially successful albums. Following the year-plus-long Eras tour, Swift has been on a break from touring this year, though the singer grabbed headlines in May when she purchased the rights to her first six albums from investment firm Shamrock Capital. Swift said in 2019 the rights to her albums were taken from her without her consent after investor and record executive Scooter Braun acquired her former record label.
This article was originally published on forbes.com and all figures are in USD.
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