Taylor Swift Album Release Dates

Taylor Swift Album Release Dates

Taylor Swift is an iconic pop figure with plenty of albums under her name today, and the list of albums keeps growing. It can be hard to keep track of the many album releases that Taylor Swift has had over the years of her extensive career, which is why we’re here to help you out.

Below, we give you some information about Taylor Swift’s albums and details about when these albums were released in chronological order.

Pop Icon Taylor Swift

Starting her musical career at just 14 years old, Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989. Swift was signed to Big Machine Records for the first part of her career, with branding and songs that aligned with the country music genre.

Since her career grew and she left Big Machine Records to sign with Republic Records, the albums that Taylor Swift has released vary in genre. However, Swift’s popularity remains, and the artist has sold over 200 million records globally.

Taylor Swift is notable as one of the best-selling artists of all time. She’s one of the most streamed female artists on Spotify, and the only artist to have five albums all sell over a million copies in the United States.

Swift has received numerous awards and recognition for her works and her prolific songwriting, and fans across the globe are enamored with the superstar and her works.

How Many Albums Has Taylor Swift Released?

To date, Taylor Swift has released ten studio albums, four live albums, and three re-recorded albums. Another re-recorded album is on the way and set to be released by the end of 2023. Swift no doubt has plenty more albums in planning, based on her already prolific songwriting career.

What Are the Taylor Swift Re-Recordings?

The re-recording that Taylor Swift is currently releasing is a result of a dispute with her former recording company, Big Machine Records, over material originally recorded with them.

Swift attempted to purchase the masters of these recordings to use as she wished. However, Big Machine Records refused, stating that she would need to provide them with a new album for every album of masters purchased. Taylor refused and began the process of re-recording her original works under her new label.

By re-recording her original work, Swift has more say over how the songs are used. Swift can receive royalties for the original songs created under Big Machine Records, instead of having her old record company mismanage her works and keep royalties from her.

Taylor Swift Albums in Chronological Order

The following albums are all of the albums Taylor Swift has released as of 2023 in chronological order. We have no doubt that this list will continue to grow though, based on Swift’s impressive musical output and the new re-recordings of older albums that Swift is now working on.

It’s important to note that our list doesn’t contain Taylor Swift’s live albums or extended plays that the artist has released; it only contains studio albums that Swift has released over her career.

2006 – Taylor Swift

The very first of Taylor Swift’s studio albums, Taylor Swift was released on October 24, 2006. It contains eleven original tracks, three bonus tracks, and has a runtime of around 40 minutes.

Track Listing for Taylor Swift:

  • “Tim McGraw”
  • “Picture to Burn”
  • “Teardrops On My Guitar”
  • “A Place in this World”
  • “Cold as You”
  • “The Outside”
  • “Tied Together with a Smile”
  • “Stay Beautiful”
  • “Should’ve Said No”
  • “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)”
  • “Our Song”

Bonus Tracks for Taylor Swift include:

  • “I’m Only Me When I’m With You”
  • “Invisible”
  • “A Perfectly Good Heart”

2008 – Fearless

Released on November 11, 2008, Fearless is Taylor Swift’s second studio album and contains thirteen tracks plus bonus tracks. It runs for around 53 minutes.

Track Listing for Fearless:

  • “Fearless”
  • “Fifteen”
  • “Love Story”
  • “Hey Stephen”
  • “White Horse”
  • “You Belong With Me”
  • “Breathe”
  • “Tell Me Why”
  • “You’re Not Sorry”
  • “The Way I Loved You”
  • “Untouchable”
  • “Forever & Always”
  • “The Best Day”
  • “Change”

Bonus Tracks for Fearless include:

  • “Jump Then Fall”
  • “Come In With the Rain”
  • “SuperStar”
  • “The Other Side of the Door”

2010 – Speak Now

Speak Now, Taylor Swift’s third studio album, was released on October 25, 2010. It contains 14 tracks, three bonus tracks, and runs at 67 minutes long.

Track Listing for Speak Now:

  • “Mine”
  • “Sparks Fly”
  • “Back to December”
  • “Speak Now”
  • “Dear John”
  • “Mean”
  • “The Story of Us”
  • “Never Grow Up”
  • “Enchanted”
  • “Better Than Revenge”
  • “Innocent”
  • “Haunted”
  • “Last Kiss”
  • “Long Live”

Bonus Tracks for Speak Now include:

  • “Ours”
  • “If This Was a Movie”
  • “Superman”

2012 – Red

Red is Taylor Swift’s fourth studio album. It was released on October 22, 2012, and it contains sixteen tracks, three bonus tracks, and three original demo recordings. Red runs at 65 minutes long and features collaborations with other artists, such as Ed Sheeran.

Track Listing for Red:

  • “State of Grace”
  • “Red”
  • “Treacherous”
  • “I Knew You Were Trouble”
  • “All Too Well”
  • “22”
  • “I Almost Do”
  • “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
  • “Stay Stay Stay”
  • “The Last Time”
  • “Holy Ground”
  • “Sad Beautiful Tragic”
  • “The Lucky One”
  • “Everything Has Changed”
  • “Starlight”
  • “Begin Again”

Bonus Tracks for Red include:

  • “The Moment I Knew”
  • “Come Back…Be Here”
  • “Girl at Home”

2014 – 1989

Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album 1989 was released on October 27, 2014. It runs at around 48 minutes long and it includes thirteen tracks and three bonus tracks.

Track Listing for 1989:

  • “Welcome to New York”
  • “Blank Space”
  • “Style”
  • “Out of the Woods”
  • “All You Had to Do Was Stay”
  • “Shake It Off”
  • “I Wish You Would”
  • “Bad Blood”
  • “Wildest Dreams”
  • “How You Get the Girl”
  • “This Love”
  • “I Know Places”
  • “Clean”

Bonus Tracks for 1989 include:

  • “Wonderland”
  • “You Are in Love”
  • “New Romantics”

2017 – Reputation

Reputation is Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, and it was the final album recorded with Big Machine Records. Reputation was released on November 10, 2017, and it contains fifteen songs, running at around 55 minutes long.

Track Listing for Reputation:

  • “…Ready for it?”
  • “End Game”
  • “I Did Something Bad”
  • “Don’t Blame Me”
  • “Delicate”
  • “Look What You Made Me Do”
  • “So It Goes…”
  • “Gorgeous”
  • “Getaway Car”
  • “King of My Heart”
  • “Dancing With Our Hands Tied”
  • “Dress”
  • “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”
  • “Call It What You Want”
  • “New Year’s Day”

2019 – Lover

Lover is the seventh studio album Taylor Swift released, and it is the first that she exclusively owned the rights to. Lover was released on August 23, 2019, and it includes eighteen songs, running at 61 minutes.

Track Listing for Lover:

  • “I Forgot That You Existed”
  • “Cruel Summer”
  • “Lover”
  • “The Man”
  • “The Archer”
  • “I Think He Knows”
  • “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince”
  • “Paper Rings”
  • “Cornelia Street”
  • “Death By a Thousand Cuts”
  • “London Boy”
  • “Soon You’ll Get Better”
  • “False God”
  • “You Need to Calm Down”
  • “Afterglow”
  • “Me!”
  • “It’s Nice to Have a Friend”
  • “Daylight”

2020 – Folklore

Folklore was released on July 24, 2020, and it is Swift’s eighth album. It includes sixteen tracks, and the album runs 63 minutes long.

Track Listing for Folklore:

  • “the 1”
  • “cardigan”
  • “the last great american dynasty”
  • “exile”
  • “my tears ricochet”
  • “mirrorball”
  • “seven”
  • “august”
  • “this is me trying”
  • “illicit affairs”
  • “invisible string”
  • “mad woman”
  • “epiphany”
  • “betty”
  • “peace”
  • “hoax”

There is only one bonus track for Folklore:

  • “the lakes”

2020 – Evermore

Released on December 11, 2020, Evermore is considered a follow-up album to Folklore. It is Swift’s ninth album and it contains fifteen songs, running approximately an hour long.

  • “willow”
  • “champagne problems”
  • “gold rush”
  • “’tis the damn season”
  • “tolerate it”
  • “no body, no crime”
  • “happiness”
  • “dorothea”
  • “coney island”
  • “ivy”
  • “cowboy like me”
  • “long story short”
  • “marjorie”
  • “closure”
  • “evermore”

Bonus Tracks for Evermore include:

  • “right where you left me”
  • “it’s time to go”

2021 – Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is the first of the re-recordings Taylor Swift released. The album was released on April 9, 2021, and it includes nineteen songs from the original albums and six bonus tracks that were originally left off of the album.

Track Listing for Fearless (Taylor’s Version):

  • “Fearless”
  • “Fifteen”
  • “Love Story”
  • “Hey Stephen”
  • “White Horse”
  • “You Belong With Me”
  • “Breathe”
  • “Tell My Why”
  • “You’re Not Sorry”
  • “The Way I Love You”
  • “Forever & Always”
  • “The Best Day”
  • “Change”
  • “Jump Then Fall”
  • “Untouchable”
  • “Forever & Always (Piano Version)”
  • “Come In With the Rain”
  • “SuperStar”
  • “The Other Side of the Door”
  • “Today Was a Fairytale”

Bonus Tracks ‘from the vault’ for Fearless (Taylor’s Version):

  • “You All Over Me”
  • “Mr. Perfectly Fine”
  • “We Were Happy”
  • “That’s When”
  • “Don’t You”
  • “Bye Bye Baby”

2021 – Red (Taylor’s Version)

Red (Taylor’s Version) is one of the longest Taylor Swift albums, and it has 30 songs included. It was released on November 12, 2021, and it runs at around two hours long.

Track Listing for Red (Taylor’s Version):

  • “State of Grace”
  • “Red”
  • “Treacherous”
  • “I Knew You Were Trouble”
  • “All Too Well”
  • “22”
  • “I Almost Do”
  • “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
  • “Stay Stay Stay”
  • “The Last Time”
  • “Holy Ground”
  • “Sad Beautiful Tragic”
  • “The Luck One”
  • “Everything Has Changed”
  • “Starlight”
  • “Begin Again”
  • “The Moment I Knew”
  • “Come Back…Be Here”
  • “Girl at Home”
  • “State of Grace (acoustic)”

Bonus tracks ‘from the vault’ include:

  • “Ronan”
  • “Better Man”
  • “Nothing New”
  • “Babe”
  • “Message in a Bottle”
  • “I Bet You Think About Me”
  • “Forever Winter”
  • “Run”
  • “The Very First Night”
  • “All Too Well (10-minute version)”

2022 – Midnights

Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album, Midnights contains thirteen songs and runs at approximately 45 minutes.

Track Listing for Midnights:

  • “Lavender Haze”
  • “Maroon”
  • “Anti-Hero”
  • “Snow On The Beach”
  • “You’re On Your Own Kid”
  • “Midnight Rain”
  • “Question…?”
  • “Vigilante Shit”
  • “Bejeweled”
  • “Labyrinth”
  • “Karma”
  • “Sweet Nothing”
  • “Mastermind”

Bonus Tracks for Midnights include:

  • “Hits Different”
  • “The Great War”
  • “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”
  • “Paris”
  • “High Infidelity”
  • “Glitch”
  • “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
  • “Dear Reader”
  • “You’re Losing Me”

2023 – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

The most current Taylor Swift release as of the writing of this article, Speak Now is the third re-recording Swift has released of her original material. Speak Now was released on July 7, 2023, and it includes 22 songs, which include six tracks ‘from the vault.’ The album runs for around 104 minutes.

Track Listing for Speak Now:

  • “Mine”
  • “Sparks Fly”
  • “Back to December”
  • “Speak Now”
  • “Dear John”
  • “Mean”
  • “The Story of Us”
  • “Never Grow Up”
  • “Enchanted”
  • “Better Than Revenge”
  • “Innocent”
  • “Haunted”
  • “Last Kiss”
  • “Long Live”
  • “Ours”
  • “Superman”

Bonus Tracks ‘from the vault” include:

  • “Electric Touch”
  • “When Emma Falls in Love”
  • “I Can See You”
  • “Castles Crumbling”
  • “Foolish One”
  • “Timeless”

What Are Tracks ‘From the Vault’?

Tracks that Swift is releasing ‘from the vault’ are tracks that were previously written and recorded but eventually dropped from the final album package. These songs ‘from the vault’ are being included in Taylor’s re-recorded albums as a bonus for fans and as a way to let her re-recording albums stand apart from her original material.

Which Album Is Taylor Swift Releasing Next?

While there isn’t much word on the next original Taylor Swift album, Taylor has released plenty of information about the next re-recording album to be released. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2023. It has been reported to contain sixteen re-recordings of Swift’s original materials, with five songs ‘from the vault.’

Tuning In to Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is one of the most popular pop icons around today, and this superstar’s career spans decades long. With such a lengthy career and incredible popularity, it’s no wonder that Swift has released as many albums as she has, with plenty more on the way.

Review our list of Taylor Swift’s album release dates and plan your next listen through all of your favorites in chronological order.