When vinyl sales declined in Q2, one explanation was the absence of a Taylor Swift album in 2025 following the huge sales for The Tortured Poets Department in the prior year.
But now the UK recorded music sector can expect a Q4 boost with the US superstar confirming plans for a new studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl.
The official release date is to be announced but the pre-sale section of Taylor Swift’s online store confirms that physical copies will ship before October 13.
The Life Of A Showgirl, which is Swift’s 12th album, is available for pre-order in vinyl (translucent orange vinyl with gold glitter), cassette and CD.
Anticipation for an announcement was growing this week following online teasers.
Swift has kept up the pace with a run of studio albums and re-recordings of previous LPs in recent years, but she has been fairly quiet since the conclusion of the 149-date Eras Tour in December 2024.
In late May, she announced that she had struck a deal to acquire her original masters for her first six albums. Having so far re-recorded four of those, she said that the final two would "have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right".
Instead, Swift has apparently turned her attention to a brand new studio album, for which expectations will be off the chart. Last year the Tortured Poets Department (EMI) broke Spotify’s record for the most streamed album in a day.
The album accumulated more than 783,000 units in the UK last year – the most for any artist release in a calendar year since 2017. It has gone on to amass consumption of 931,825 since its release 16 months ago.
