Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore (2026) [Hi-Res]

Taylor Swift releases an expanded version of her 12th studio album titled "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore" ​on Wednesday, with four new songs written after the ‌historic success of the record's release a year ago.

The new tracks include “Patient Zero,” which Swift previously announced as her next single, plus “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding,” and “Babylon.”

“About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album. Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.” (Taylor Swift)

“The Life of a Showgirl” came out in October 2025 and sold more than 4 million copies in its first week of release, breaking a record that had been held for a decade by Adele’s album “25.” Though unevenly reviewed by critics, “Showgirl” spun off a hit single in “The Fate of Ophelia,” which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100; a second single, “Opalite,” also topped the chart in February.

Both “Showgirl” and “Ophelia” — as well as “I Knew It, I Knew You,” Swift’s song from “Toy Story 5” — are expected to score multiple Grammy nominations when nods are announced Nov. 16.