when can i download taylor swift reputation album Taylor Swift (album) Taylor Swift Studio album by Taylor Swift. Standard Deluxe Karaoke. General information. Release Date. Recorded. Genre. Length. Label. Producer(s) Singles. Chronology Current Next Taylor Swift Fearless Taylor Swift is the eponymous debut studio album by American country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. After signing a record deal in 2005, the album was released on October 24, 2006 by Big Machine Records. Most of the writing took place during Swift's freshman year of high school. Swift wrote or co-wrote every song on Taylor Swift ; most co-written songs feature Liz Rose as a writer. Swift experimented to record the album with several album producers, ultimately choosing the producer of her demo album, Nathan Chapman. Musically, the album is styled to blend country music and pop music and lyrically, it speaks of romantic relationships, a couple of which Swift wrote from observing relationships before being in one. Taylor Swift was received positively by contemporary critics, who praised Swift's talent. The album enjoyed commercial success; in the United States, it peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, topped the Top Country Albums Chart for twenty-four non-consecutive weeks, and was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Taylor Swift marked the longest stay on the Billboard 200 by any album released in the decade. It also charted in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Five singles were released from the album, all of which were certified platinum by the RIAA. "Tim McGraw" was released as the lead single from Taylor Swift ; it became a top ten on Billboard 's Hot Country Songs. "Teardrops on My Guitar" was released as the second single from Taylor Swift , becoming the best-charting song from Taylor Swift on the Billboard Hot 100. "Our Song" was released as the third single from the album and became Swift's first number-one on Hot Country Songs. "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No" were released as the fourth single and fifth single from the album, respectively, both becoming a success on the country-genre charts in the United States and later peaking at number eighteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart. Swift promoted Taylor Swift by performing at several venues, which included her opening for Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Brad Paisley, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Contents. Background. Swift is from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania and developed an early interest in country music and songwriting. When she was eleven, she and her family made their first visit to Nashville, Tennessee in peruse of a record deal, though nothing came out of it. Swift was often judged and neglected by record labels for being too young. In regards to the labels which rejected her, she said, “ "I can understand. They were afraid to put out a 13-year-old. They were afraid to put out a 14-year-old. Then they were afraid to put out a 15- year-old. Then they were nervous about putting out a 16-year-old. And I'm sure if I hadn't signed with Scott Borchetta [head of Big Machine Records], everybody would be afraid to put out a 17-year-old." [1] ” Two years later, her family moved to Nashville; in the same year, Swift development deal with RCA Records, which she ultimately rejected because she refused to be on an artist development deal. At the age of fourteen, she received a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music. In 2005, while performing at The Bluebird Café, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records; she eventually signed with the label. Themes and inspiration. Swift began working on her debut album in the same year she was signed to Big Machine Records. Swift describes Taylor Swift as "[her] diary from [her] early teens" and says she wrote the songs featured on the album "in real time", as she was experiencing them. As a result, the songs on Taylor Swift describe coming of age experiences such as insecurity, young love, and teenage angst. Most songs on the album were written during Swift's freshman year of high school. “ "You listen to my album and it sounds like I've had 500 boyfriends. But that's really not the case. I found that you don't have to date someone to write a song about them [. ] I was going through a really tough time in school and facing a lot of rejection among my peers.I found that I was alone a lot of the time, kind of on the outside looking into their discussions and the things they were saying to each other. They really didn't talk to me. In the process of coming to that realization, I started developing this really keen sense of observation -- of how to watch people and see what they did. From that sense, I was able to write songs about relationships when I was thirteen but not in relationships." [1] ” Development and music. Swift wrote "Tim McGraw" during her freshman year, knowing that she and her senior boyfriend, Brandon Borello, would break up at the end of the year when he left for college. Rose said Swift showed up at her after school job writing songs for Sony/ATV "with the idea and the melody. She knew exactly what she wanted." The nostalgic song describes a summer romance and Swift's hope that when Borello "think[s] Tim McGraw" he would "think [her] favorite song" – McGraw's "Can't Tell Me Nothin" – and remember her. Conversely, "Picture to Burn" describes a girl furious after a break-up. Swift says that while the song is about "just being mad" and is "completely, brutally honest"; she gave it a comedic edge. While at work after school, Swift "found [her]self just sitting there with [her] guitar going, 'I hate his stupid truck that he doesn't let me drive. He's such a redneck! Oh my God!'," a line which developed into the song's chorus. The up-tempo song is heavy with banjos and drums, while the chorus is marked by distorted guitars and big vocals. The singer penned the autobiographical song "The Outside" as an outlet at age twelve, the year she began writing her own songs. Like many of the other songs she wrote early on, the song describes the unhappiness and loneliness Swift felt when her love of country music alienated her from her peers. Swift wrote "Tied Together with a Smile" the day she learned one of her best friends was bulimic, a fact which shocked her. She recalled, "How can somebody that seems so strong have such a horrible, horrible weakness? Something that is killing her." The lyrics to "Tied Together with a Smile" describe a beautiful girl trying to hide her inner turbulence and mourn that "You're tied together with a smile/But you're coming undone". Swift commented, "I always thought that one of the biggest overlooked problems American girls face is insecurity." She wrote "Should've Said No" according to "something really, really dramatic and crazy happening to [her] and [her] needing to address it in the form of music". The song was a last minute addition to Taylor Swift : Swift had written it two days before mastering was scheduled and booklets were about to be printed; she then called her produced and completed the song overnight. "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" was actually inspired by her next-door neighbors' long lasting marriage, being the opposite of what tabloids fixate on. Swift wrote "Our Song" for her freshman year of high school talent show with no intentions of including it on the album. She claimed she "just knew there was something about it" and chose to include it on Taylor Swift . "I wrote it about this guy I was dating, and how we didn't have a song. So I went ahead and wrote us one." The song is a narrative and describes a young couple who use the events in their lives in place of a regular song. The banjo-riddled song is placed at the end of the album due to its closing lyrics, a request to "play it again". "Invisible" is ballad describing loneliness and heartache of going unnoticed. Sean Dooley of About.com writes, the "piano-driven song [. ] perfectly captures the awkward teenage angst we all endure—or have endured—at one time or another." Recording. Swift performing "Teardrops on My Guitar". The song became the best-charting single from Taylor Swift on the Billboard Hot 100. While recording her demo album, Swift worked with demo producer Nathan Chapman, who she met in a little shed behind a publishing company she was at. Swift said, "I'd always go in there and play him some new songs, and the next week he would have this awesome track, on which he played every instrument, and it sounded like a record. We did this for a period of a year to two years before I got my record deal." To record Taylor Swift , she had to chose which album producer she would work with: "Then, all of a sudden, it was, 'OK, we're going to use this producer' or 'We're going to use that producer.'" After experimenting with different producers, originating from Nashville, Swift chose Chapman because of the unique sound he put into songs. Big Machine Records was skeptical about hiring Chapman because he had never done a studio album prior to Taylor Swift , only demos. Swift described the songs he produced as "the right chemistry hit[ting]" and therefore, Big Machine Records accepted Chapman producing some of the album's songs. In the end, Chapman produced all but one of the tracks on Taylor Swift . Recording was executed during a four month period before 2006 was over. Critical reception. Source Rating About.com 5/5 stars Allmusic 3.5/5 stars Country Standard Time Favorable Country Weekly 3.5/5 stars The Toledo Blade Favorable. Taylor Swift received positive review from contemporary critics. Shelly Fabian of About.com praised Swift as "one of the most talented, young performers on the country charts today" and for doing "a fabulous job of blending modern country with the traditional". Fabian praised Taylor Swift for having both "fun, uptempo" song, like "Picture to Burn" and "Our Song", and emotional songs, like "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Tied Together with a Smile". Jeff Tamarkin of Allmusic Swift as a "a fresh, still girlish voice, full of hope and naïveté, but it's also a confident and mature one". He said her "talent to be reckoned" was portrayed through the songs "Tim McGraw", "The Outside", and "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)". Tamarkin criticized producer Nathan Chapman for applying "a gloss that not all [songs] really require and in some cases would do better to shed". Rick Bell of Country Standard Time gave a positive review, saying that Swift had "smart songwriting" and that "her deeply personal, self-penned songs, particularly 'The Outside' and 'Our Song'" were "stirring." He compared her sound to Cyndi Thomson and Hilary Duff. Chris Neal of Country Weekly said that Swift "demonstrat[es] an honesty, intelligence and idealism with which listeners of any age will be able to connect" and added that "the more thoughtful material suggests a talent poised to last well past high school." Ken Rosenbaum of The Toledo Blade wrote Swift "deftly handles lyrics and subjects in that shadowy area between teenager and womanhood." Chart performance. Swift performing "Tim McGraw". The song was written about a breakup with a senior boyfriend because he was attending college. Country singer Tim McGraw is one of the things used to remember her by. On the week ending November 11, 2006, Taylor Swift debuted at number nineteen on the Billboard 200 due to sales of 40,000 copies. After sixty-three weeks on the Billboard 200, on the week ending January 19, 2008, the album reached its peak at number five due to sales of 47,000 copies. Taylor Swift marked the longest stay on the Billboard 200 by any album released in the decade. The album topped Billboard 's Top Country Albums Chart for twenty-four non-consecutive weeks. On the week ending August 2, 2008, Swift's EP Beautiful Eyes replaced Taylor Swift as the chart's number one album. With Taylor Swift charting at number two, Swift became the first artist to hold the first two positions on Top Country Albums since LeAnn Rimes charted in 1997 with Blue (1996) and Unchained Melody: The Early Years (1997). On August 17, 2009, the album was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the shipment of 4,000,000 copies. Taylor Swift peaked at number fourteen on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number-one on the Canadian Country Albums Chart. Taylor Swift was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) for the shipment of 80,000 copies. In Australia, Taylor Swift peaked at number thirty-three on the main chart and at number three on the country-genre chart. On the week ending September 5, 2009, it entered the UK Albums Chart at number eighty-eight; the following week, it reached its peak at number eighty-one. It was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for the shipment of 60,000 copies. Awards and nominations. Year Organization Award Result Ref. 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards Album of the Year Nominated [2] Singles. "Tim McGraw" was released as the lead single from Taylor Swift on June 19, 2006. The song was critically appreciated for Swift's delivery. "Tim McGraw" enjoyed commercial success, peaking at number forty on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number six on Billboard 's Hot Country Songs; it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the shipment of 1,000,000 copies. "Teardrops on My Guitar" was released as the second single from Taylor Swift . "Teardrops on My Guitar" received critical success for its memorable chorus and crossover potential, as well as commercial success by becoming the best-charting single from Taylor Swift on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number thirteen. It became Swift's first pop crossover hit, peaking at number eleven on the now-canceled Pop 100 chart. The song was certified double platinum by the RIAA for the shipment of 2,000,000 copies. "Teardrops on My Guitar" peaked at number forty-five in Canada and at number fifty-one in the United Kingdom. "Our Song" was released as the third single from the album. The song was critically favored, being described as "gem". "Our Song" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA; it also became Swift's first-number one on Hot Country Songs. The song peaked at number thirty on the Canadian Hot 100, becoming the best-charting single from Taylor Swift in Canada. "Picture to Burn" was released as the fourth single from Taylor Swift . "Picture to Burn" was appreciated by contemporary critics for lyrics reflecting feminism. It became a fourth consecutive top ten single for Swift on the United States' chart Hot Country Songs and was certified platinum by the RIAA. "Should've Said No" was released as the fifth and final single from the album. In the United States, "Should've Said No" became Swift's second number-one on Hot Country Songs and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The song made its highest international peak in the New Zealand Singles Chart, at number eighteen. Promotion. Swift performing "Our Song" when opening for Rascal Flatts' Me and My Gang Tour. "Our Song" was released as a single and became her first number-one on Billboard 's Hot Country Songs. Swift's first broadcast performance of "Tim McGraw" was on October 24, 2006 on Good Morning America . Other songs from Taylor Swift have been performed on television programs, award shows, and festivals such as The Megan Mullally Show , the New Faces Show, America's Got Talent , TRL, the 2008 CMT Music Awards, and the Academy of Country Music. Swift spent much of 2006 promoting "Tim McGraw" and Taylor Swift in a radio tour. In regards to the extensive radio tour, Swift commented, "Radio tours for most artists last six weeks. Mine lasted six months. That's because I wanted it to. I wanted to meet every single one of the people that was helping me out." Swift also promoted the album by performing as an opening act for several country artists' concert tours. She opened for Rascal Flatts on several dates, from October 19 to November 3, 2006, included on the Me and My Gang Tour (2006–07), performing a total of five songs from the album. She also served as opening act on twenty dates for George Strait's 2007 United States tour, and selected dates for Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour (2007–08); Swift served as an opening act during all 2007 legs of the tour. During mid-2007, Swift engaged as the opening act on several dates for Tim McGraw's and Faith Hill's joint tour, Soul2Soul II Tour (2006–07). Swift again opened for Flatts for his Still Feels Good Tour in 2008. In addition, Swift performs six songs from Taylor Swift on her first headlining tour, the Fearless Tour (2009–10). Download: Taylor Swift’s New Album ‘Reputation’ Taylor Swift ‘s long-awaited new album, ‘Reputation,’ featuring the #1 hit, ‘Look What You Made Me Do,’ and top 20 follow-ups ‘Ready For It,’ ‘Gorgeous,’ and more, has finally arrived in full after ample teasing – confirming rumors it would not be available for streaming its first week. Click inside for more: Click here to download ‘Reputation’ While we won’t have an official predictive read on sales until Saturday, reports are indicated the album is set to give the songstress her biggest first week sales to date with 1.5-2 million expected to be shifted by the end of its inaugural tracking week. reputation. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at £13.49. On 19 June 2006, someone called Taylor Swift released her first single, Tim McGraw , a straightforward homage to the country singer of the same name. She was only 17 and stood out as a potential future queen of country pop. A good decade later, queen she is: but of pop tout court ! The Disney cowgirl getup is gone, replaced by the pop R&B icon who has conquered the heights of the charts, but who, above all, has been able to impose her style and her writing as a canonical part of the modern genre. With Reputation , her royal crown never threatens to fall from her head. On the contrary. With this sixth album, Taylor Swift certainly has not equalled 1989 , her most accomplished record released in 2014, though she confirms that she is to her times what Madonna was to the 80s and 90s. Really, it should be enjoyed for what it is: great pop, with catchy choruses, pumped–up production (the Swedish pairing of Max Martin/Shellback as well as the American Jack Antonoff are in charge here) and her autobiographical lyrics which juggle with looove, liiife, fruuustration, saaadness, haaappiness, etc. Here, Taylor Swift unburdens her soul, in particular about how the limelight can burn, especially on Call It What You Want where she explains that she isn't what she's said to be… this saccharine orgy concludes with an even more melancholy piano ballad, New Year’s Day . We leave Reputation realising that the star has pulled clearly away ahead of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. © CM/Qobuz. The Old Taylor Can't Come To The Phone: Facts About Taylor Swift's Reputation Album. For Taylor, it was as cathartic as it was head-turning. Once upon a time, Taylor Swift was (and still is, by the way) America's sweetheart from a small borough in Nashville. Following her longtime feud with Kanye West and Katy Perry, Taylor Swift's life has been scrutinized by the media. Streams of snake emojis flooded her social media, which she recalled that she 'went through some shallow times for a while because of it.' In 2017, everything had changed. The world entered the darker side of Tay with her sixth studio album, Reputation , on November 10. Supported by singles like Look What You Made Me Do , Ready for It , End Game , and Delicate , the singer herself described the album as the most cathartic piece of art she'd ever written. "This has definitely been my most cathartic album. After I finished it, it was like, "Now I can write regular songs again," T told the Los Angeles Times. The album is a declaration of winning for Taylor, as she took all the negative bits and turned it into positive. To celebrate Reputation , here are some of the facts you might want to know about the album. Yes, it's been more than two years, but a little bit throwback won't hurt, eh? 12 Reputation Was . Different. In contrary to the other six albums she'd ever released from Taylor Swift (2006) to Lover (2019), Reputation , as we'd said earlier, has a much darker tone. Speaking to Rolling Stone, this is what Tay Tay had to say about the making of Reputation and how it was 'so far from what I usually do.' She said, "I think I would have made Reputation whether or not I actually put out the album or ever made another album again. That album was a real process of catharsis, and I thought I experienced catharsis before, but I'd never had until that album because it was creating this strange defense mechanism. And, I'd never really done that in that exact way before. I took that template of, okay, this is what you're all saying about me. Let me just write from this character for a second." 11 Reputation Almost Didn't Happen. The more albums you have released, the lesser space you have left on your songwriting canvas. No wonder, because for some artists, it's hard to maintain longevity after their third or fourth album. Taylor defined the year 2015 with 1989 album, a record she's proud of, but she almost had no idea what to do next after that. "The Grammys happen, which is like this unbelievable blitz of excitement, followed by me going, "Oh my god, what am I going to make next?" I had no idea what to make next, because I was so proud. 1989 — I'm still so, so deeply proud of that record," Taylor told Rolling Stone. "But I was like, where do we go from here? I have no idea what comes after this. And so, when my life took a very dramatic shift, all of a sudden, I knew what to make next." 10 Taylor, The Record-Breaker. To help propel the album, Taylor embarked on the Reputation Stadium Tour from May 8 to November 21, 2018. From the United States to Japan, Taylor and co only made 53 stops and grossed over $345.7 million, making it the highest-grossing tour in the US by a female musician of all time. To immortalize her best tour, Netflix released a concert film, Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour , on December 31, 2018. 9 Who's The Kid From Gorgeous? Taylor kicks off the second single of the Reputation album, Gorgeous , with a sweet baby voice cooing in its intro. But who's that baby? The singer herself revealed on the album's booklet that it's Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's elder daughter, James, "Baby intro voice by James Reynolds." The singer herself had cemented her picture-perfect friendship with Blake Lively back in 2015 with an Instagram post of their cozy trip to the Queensland theme park in Australia. 8 Reputation Was Tay's Only Album To Have A Curse Word. On the song I Did Something Bad from Reputation , Taylor referenced her biggest nemesis, Kanye and Kim, and dissed her former sweeties Calvin Harris & Tom Hiddleston, at the same time. It was Taylor's first song ever to feature a curse word, "If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing / I don't regret it one bit, 'cause he had it coming." But it wasn't the last. On the track The Man from her 2019 album Lover , Taylor tackled sexism and croons, "What's it like to brag about raking in dollars / And getting bitches and models?" 7 No Interview. When artists use interviews and talkshow appearances to help promote the album, Taylor solely used the power of her social media. Speaking to Zane Lowe, here is why Taylor refused to interview the Reputation era. She said, "At the very beginning of the album, I was pretty proud of coining the term: 'There will be no explanation. There will just be Reputation ', and so that was what I decided was going to be the album, and I stuck with it. I didn't go back on it. I didn't try to explain the album because I didn't feel that I owed that to anyone. There was a lot that happened over a couple of years that made me feel really, really terrible. And I didn't feel like expressing that to them. I didn't feel like talking about it. I just felt like making music, then going out on the road and doing a stadium tour and doing everything I could for my fans." 6 'Et Tu Brute' Taylor Swift is the queen of Easter eggs and symbolism, and after she released the visual of Look What You Made Me Do on August 27, 2017, her large army of Swifties quickly put it under their microscope and decoded it. One of the most subtle Easter eggs from the video is 'et tu brute,' a quote from the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar , bamboozled into her throne. Caesar utters these words at the moment of his assassination as he finds out that his closest friend, Marcus Brutus, is the mastermind behind it. 5 Reputation Wasn't The First Time Taylor Rapped. Yes, Taylor does rap on some parts on Reputation , but true Swifties know that it wasn't the first time she raps. Back in 2009 at the CMT Music Awards, Taylor Swift, under a moniker T-Swizzle, rapped with Buy U A Drank rapper-slash-singer, T-Pain. The track was called Thug Story, a playful nod to her 2008 hit Love Story . "I'm so gangster you can find me baking cookies at night / You out clubbing, but I just made caramel delight / T-Swift and T-Pain rapping on the same track / It's a thug story, tell me can you handle that?" she rapped. 4 Rep Was The Second Best-Selling Album Of 2017. Despite its lack of promo, Taylor Swift's star power has put Reputation to where it's at now: the best selling album by a female artist of 2017. With over 2 million copies sold worldwide within the first week, Reputation debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart. According to IFPI's Global Music Report 2018, Reputation has sold over 4.5 million copies. The only competition she had was with her partner in crime, Ed Sheeran, who scored a whopping 6.2 million with ÷ ( Divide ). 3 Goodbye, Big Machine Records. After 12 years with Big Machine Records, a music label that signed her when she was only a 14-year old aspiring songwriter from the country, Taylor Swift put the journey with BME to an end with Reputation . After a month with no label, she landed a deal with UMG's Republic Records. "I'm ecstatic to announce that my musical home will be Republic Records and Universal Music Group," she took to Instagram to announce the deal. "Over the years, Sir Lucian Grainge and Monte Lipman have been such incredible partners. It's so thrilling to me that they, and the UMG team, will be my label family moving forward." 2 Except For Ed Sheeran & Future, There Are No Other Features On Reputation. Well, who needs features when you're the most Googled artist of the year? To bring the hip-hop flavor on the album to live, Taylor linked up with rapper Future for the album's single, End Game, and her BFF Ed Sheeran. Other than that, there are no features on the album. 1 Reputation Earned A Grammy Nomination For Best Pop Vocal Album. Taylor Swift has always been a definition of 'Grammy darling.' In 2010, she became the youngest artist to win Album of the Year for her sophomore album, Fearless . For Reputation , Taylor earned another Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album, only to lose to Ariana Grande's Sweetener . Many fans would think it's a snub, but with Sweetener by Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello's self-titled albums, P!nk's Beautiful Trauma , and Kelly Clarkson's Meaning of Life on the table, it's always a hard time to pick a winner without causing any controversies. Taylor Swift's new album literally crashed iTunes. Since iTunes has been around since 2003, you’d imagine it’d be able to handle a lot of traffic. Well, apparently that’s not the case. Taylor Swift’s album Reputation crashed iTunes last night after being released shortly before midnight, as too many people jumped at the chance to download it. Swift’s album already broke a few records. Reportedly 800,000 fans tried to download Reputation in the first six minutes it was released, slowing down the app store and making it difficult for some to listen to her new songs. Zachary Jaydon, the Founder and CEO of PopWrapped, tweeted last night that “Apple is currently trying to push out Taylor Swift’s #Reputation album to more than 800,000 people on iTunes, I have confirmed, causing their servers to badly lag. It’s highly-anticipated to be the fastest-selling album, ever. First-week sales are expected to reach 2- MILLION,” later confirming that these were sales in the US only. While a few fans tweeted out images of iTunes failing them, other fans commented back that it took about 40 minutes for them to finally hear the songs, but according to the overall positive response that Reputation has gotten thus far, we have a feeling that it was worth the wait — and the frustration.