Taylor Swift albums in order – Taylor's Versions and first albums

Her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, smashed the all-time record for the most single-day streams, surpassing 300 million.

With Taylor's Version re-releases and her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on the way, Swift is showing no signs of slowing down.

Looking to revisit her previous albums? Read on for the singer's full discography in chronological order.

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Taylor Swift's full album list – including Taylor's Versions re-releases

To date, Taylor Swift'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)
• The Life of a Showgirl (2025)

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 Swift has created 11 studio albums – but has re-recorded and re-released four of them. These releases, known as "Taylor's Versions", were 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, Swift 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, Swift 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 private equity company, Shamrock Capital, in 2020.

As a result, at the suggestion of Kelly Clarkson, Swift 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 (June 2025), four out of six Taylor's Versions have been released, with her debut album and sixth album, Reputation still to go.

However, on 30th May 2025, Swift released a letter on her website revealing she had managed to finally buy back all six of her original album recordings, as well as their associated music videos, concert shows and more.

As part of the lengthy letter, she said: "All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy.

“I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to ever offer this to me. The way they’ve handled every interaction we’ve had has been honest, fair and respectful.

"This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: my memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams. I am endlessly thankful. My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead.”

She confirmed later on in the letter that Reputation (Taylor's Version) wasn't even a quarter recorded, noting that she felt like it was the only one out of the six that couldn't be improved upon, making it difficult for her to do more to it.

However, she did add that her debut album re-recording had been fully completed.

“I really love how it sounds now. Those two albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won’t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.”

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