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It’s official: Speak Now (Taylor’s version) is on the way. Taylor Swift announced during her first of three shows at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium on Friday night (May 5) that her third studio album, 2010, will be her next re-recorded release, which will be out on July 7th.
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All Swift fans could also rejoice in the announcement, as Taylor Nation’s Instagram account went live from the concert on stage for the moment. She drew the fans’ attention to screens around the stadium, which read: “Speak now. Taylor’s version. Available July 7th.”
Swifties already noticed something was wrong last Sunday when the glowing wristbands presented to attendees of the Eras Tour at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium turned purple at the end of the show. Purple is the color representing Speak Now, which fans have long speculated would be the next re-recording. To celebrate the announcement, the John Seigenthaler Footbridge in Nashville also changed its lights to a bright purple hue on Friday night.
So far, Swift has only performed one song from Speak Now, “Enchanted,” in her setlist on the Eras Tour, which kicked off March 17 in Glendale, Arizona — though “Mean” was performed as a surprise song during her April 15 show in Tampa, Fla. Speak Now spawned two Top 10 singles: “Mine” (#3 on the Billboard Hot 100) and “Back to December” (#6), as well as four other singles – “Mean” (#11), “Ours” ( #13), “Sparks Fly” (#17) and “The Story of Us” (#41) – which charted on the Hot 100.
Upon its release in October 2010 — following Swift’s mainstream break with 2008’s Fearless, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year — Speak Now became the first Swift album to surpass 1 million sales in its debut week and 1 on Billboard 200 with 1.047 million copies sold. As of April 27, Swift’s third album has grossed a total of 7.8 million album-equivalent units in the United States, according to Luminate.
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) will follow Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), both released in 2021, as the third re-recorded studio album in their six-album endeavor. Swift announced plans to re-record her first six studio albums in 2019 after being unable to purchase her back catalog master recordings. Instead of releasing a re-recorded album last year, Swift released her 10th studio album, Midnights, which scored the biggest debut week of her career and any album in 2022.