Earlier this night (Monday, August 11), Taylor Swift up to date her web site with a clock counting right down to 12:12 a.m. Japanese Customary 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 Department and its prolonged version, The Anthology. It’s at present obtainable to pre-order on her website, 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 wish 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 Reputation, appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale’s closing season. Nonetheless, followers who anticipated the approaching announcement of Status (Taylor’s Model) had been confirmed unsuitable when, later that month, Swift shared that she had bought back the grasp recordings for her first six studio albums, which had been acquired by Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings LLC in 2019 and sold to Los Angeles personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital the next 12 months. Based on Swift, a re-recorded model of her self-titled debut album is full, however Status (Taylor’s Model) could stay unfinished.
The final show of Swift’s Eras Tour happened on December 8, 2025. The almost two-year, 149-concert endeavor reportedly offered over $2 billion in tickets, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time. The Eras Tour spawned a companion book and a three-hour movie. On the 2025 Grammys, Swift was nominated in six classes; she took residence no trophies, however did current Beyoncé with the award for Best Country Album.
Swift announced 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 report for many weekly vinyl LP gross sales (a report 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 present tied with Jay-Z for probably the most No. 1 albums as a solo artist.
