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Earlier this evening (Monday, August 11), Taylor Swift<\/a> updated her website with a clock counting down to 12:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on August 12. Now, she\u2019s announced a new album. The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> will mark Swift\u2019s 12th studio album and follow-up to 2024\u2019s The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/a> and its extended edition, The Anthology<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s currently available to pre-order on her website<\/a>, though a formal release date has yet to be shared.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Swift will appear on New Heights<\/em>, the podcast hosted by her boyfriend\u2014Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce\u2014and his brother, Jason Kelce. In a clip from the episode now posted to her Instagram<\/a>, she reveals a mint green briefcase with the letters \u201cTS\u201d in orange lettering. \u201cI want to show you something,\u201d Swift says. \u201cThis is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>.\u201d However, the cover art is blurred out. Watch the clip below.<\/p>\n In May, a re-recorded version of \u201cLook What You Made Me Do<\/a>,\u201d the lead single from Swift\u2019s 2017 album Reputation<\/em><\/a>, appeared in The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a>\u2019s final season. However, fans who anticipated the imminent announcement of Reputation (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em> were proven wrong when, later that month, Swift shared that she had bought back<\/a> the master recordings for her first six studio albums, which had been acquired<\/a> by Scooter Braun\u2019s Ithaca Holdings LLC in 2019 and sold<\/a> to Los Angeles private equity firm Shamrock Capital the following year. According to Swift, a re-recorded version of her self-titled debut album<\/a> is complete, but Reputation (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em> may remain unfinished.<\/p>\n The final show<\/a> of Swift\u2019s Eras Tour<\/a> took place on December 8, 2025. The nearly two-year, 149-concert undertaking reportedly sold over $2 billion in tickets, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time. The Eras Tour spawned a companion book<\/a> and a three-hour movie<\/a>. At the 2025 Grammys<\/a>, Swift was nominated<\/a> in six categories; she took home no trophies, but did present Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> with the award for Best Country Album<\/a>.<\/p>\n Swift announced<\/a> The Tortured Poets Department<\/em> onstage at the 2024 Grammy Awards after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights<\/em><\/a>. It debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart<\/a>, marking her 14th No. 1 album, broke the record for most weekly vinyl LP sales (a record previously held by Swift herself), and became the first album to hit one billion streams on Spotify within a week of its release. Swift is currently tied with Jay-Z<\/a> for the most No. 1 albums as a solo artist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n