Taylor Swift Finally Releases Revamped Fearless Album
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The Cardigan singer has finally launched Fearless (Taylor s Version) , the re-recorded version of her 2008 Grammy-winning album Fearless (Taylor s Version) . Apr 10, 2021
The 31-year-old megastar s new recording of the 2008 Grammy-winning LP features 26 songs and six previously unheard tracks.
Taylor had already released You All Over Me (From the Vault) featuring
Maren Morris, Love Story (Taylor s Version) , and Mr. Perfectly Fine (From the Vault) .
The latter was penned in 2008, but never made it onto the final track-listing for the original cut of Fearless .
In the tune, which fans have speculated may have been written about her ex-boyfriend
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Taylor Swift performs onstage during MTV s Total Request Live on June 16, 2008 at the MTV Times Square Studios in New York City.
On Nov. 11, 2008, a then-18-year-old Taylor Swift released her blockbuster sophomore album
Fearless, which would go on to earn the country-pop singer her first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, where it spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at the top.
Fearless also led
Billboard s Top Country Albums tally for 35 weeks, the second-longest run by a woman and the fifth-lengthiest overall. It became the best-selling album of 2009, gained diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and scored Swift her first album of the year win at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Keith Urban on Collaborations With Taylor Swift for New Fearless Album: That s Magic
Music Fearless (Taylor s Version) , which will be released on March 9, will hear the Days Go By singer singing a duet with the Love Story hitmaker on one song, and belting harmonies on another. Apr 5, 2021
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Taylor Swift s upcoming Fearless (Taylor s Version) re-release will feature 27 tracks, including two she has recorded with former tourmate
The Love Story singer hinted Urban would be part of the reworked bonus album, released this week (March 9), in a cryptic video she posted online on Friday, April 2, and a day later she revealed the full track listing and stated she was thrilled when he agreed to be a part of the project.
Fearless. The new take is from her forthcoming re-recording of the album,
Fearless (Taylor s Version). (Re-recordings of older songs or albums are treated separately from their originals, with independent chart histories for each version.) Love Story (Taylor s Version) is the second single ever to top Hot Country Songs in separate forms, after Dolly Parton s iconic I Will Always Love You led in 1974 and, in a second take, in 1982.
On the Hot 100, Swift s new entry is the latest to chart more than once as re-recorded in-studio by an artist that previously made it a hit.
Here s a look at 20 other memorable such singles, listed chronologically by their updated versions (with thanks to the invaluable assistance of Paul Haney from Joel Whitburn s Record Research).