Taylor Swift Unveils New Album 'The Life of a Showgirl'

Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl". The pop superstar revealed the news on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday, without providing a release date.

"Thinking about when she said 'See you next era…'" Swift's official marketing team posted on TikTok, sharing a slide show of 12 images featuring Swift wearing orange in every picture.

A special limited vinyl edition of the album will be released in "Portofino orange glitter", according to her website. A special cassette edition is also available for pre-order.

"The Life of a Showgirl" follows last year's "The Tortured Poets Department," announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during my record-breaking tour, which raked in over $2.2 billion across two years and five continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.

The album is Swift's first release since she regained control over her entire body of work. In May, she purchased her catalog of recordings from Shamrock Capital, doing away with Big Machine Records. She did not disclose the amount.

In recent years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The project was instigated by Scooter Braun's purchase and sale of her early catalog, representing Swift's effort to control her own songs and how they're used.

So far, there have been four rerecorded albums, beginning with "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" and "Red (Taylor's Version)" in 2021. All four have been massive commercial and cultural successes, each one debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Swift's last rerecording, "1989 (Taylor's Version)", arrived in October 2023, just four months after the release of "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)". That same year Swift claimed the record for the woman with the most No. 1 albums in history.