Taylor Swift albums in order – Taylor's Versions and first albums
Take a deep dive into every era that turned Taylor Swift into a megastar.
From her early days as a country singer to her global pop icon status, Taylor Swift has an impressive catalogue of hits and an unmatched reputation for putting on a show and breaking records.
Starting off her career as a bright-eyed country gal in 2006, Taylor has turned into a worldwide phenomenon – proven in 2023 and 2024 when she performed 149 shows of her three-hour Eras Tour across five continents.
By April 2024, Taylor's latest album The Tortured Poets Department became the first album in Spotify history to reach more than 300 million streams in a single day.
From Love Story to Bad Blood, from Shake It Off to Fortnight, every album has proven to deliver hit tracks that cover everything from country to pop to even a little rock.
With Taylor's Version re-releases becoming highly anticipated with new music being thrown in as well, Taylor is proving unstoppable right now.
Here's everything she's been up to, and what comes next.
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Taylor Swift's full album list – including Taylor's Versions re-releases
To date, Taylor's albums are:
- Taylor Swift/Debut (2006)
- Fearless (2008) - Taylor's Version released in 2021
- Speak Now (2010) - Taylor's Version released in 2023
- Red (2012) - Taylor's Version released in 2021
- 1989 (2014) - Taylor's Version released in 2023
- Reputation (2017)
- Lover (2019)
- Folklore (2020)
- Evermore (2020)
- Midnights (2022)
- The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Swift also released the following official live albums:
- Speak Now World Tour – Live (2011)
- Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008 (2020)
- Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, from the Disney+ Special (2020)
- Lover (Live from Paris) (2023)
What are 'Taylor's Versions' of albums and why were they released?
To date, Taylor has created 11 studio albums – but has re-recorded and re-released four of them. These releases, known as "Taylor's Versions", are a direct response to a fight for creative rights and control of her songs from her old record label, Big Machine Records.
With Big Machine, which she signed up to at age 15, Taylor released her first six albums, but in doing so gave them sole ownership of the recordings. When the label was sold to Scooter Braun in 2019, Taylor was not given the opportunity to buy the ownership back, despite her protests against Braun and previous behaviour of his clients towards her (most notably Kanye West, with whom she had a public feud).
In a statement, Taylor said: "Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it."
Braun would later sell the master recordings to a private equity company in 2020.
As a result, at the suggestion of Kelly Clarkson, Taylor decided to re-record the albums herself, and release them of her own volition. This allows her to reclaim some level of ownership to her own material without needing ownership of the original album, and update the sound and style to her liking.
At the time of writing (March 2025), four out of six Taylor's Versions have been released, with her debut album and sixth album, Reputation, both expected to drop soon.
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Authors
Tilly Pearce is a freelance TV journalist whose coverage ranges from reality shows like Love Is Blind to sci-fi shows like Fallout. She is an NCTJ Gold Standard accredited journalist, who has previously worked as Deputy TV Editor (maternity cover) at Digital Spy, and Deputy TV & Showbiz Editor at Daily Express US.
