{"id":104514,"date":"2025-10-06T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:09:09","slug":"taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-how-to-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104514\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’: How to stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Lights, camera, action. Taylor Swift\u2019s<\/a> 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d has arrived. Are you ready for it?<\/p>\n

Swift announced her latest era back in August,<\/a> when she began teasing the release.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know ahead of its drop date: how to stream, which variants exist, and of course, how the album came together. Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n

How to listen to Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d is streaming on all major platforms, including Spotify,<\/a> Apple Music and Amazon Music.<\/p>\n

Fans were able to pre-save the album ahead of its release on Oct. 3. Pre-saving ensures the new music automatically appears in a fan\u2019s library the moment it is available. It is also a way for an artist to promote streams ahead of the drop date.<\/p>\n

Spotify announced Friday that Swift\u2019s album surpassed six million pre-saves on their platform to become the most pre-saved album in its history. The previous title holder? Her 2024 album \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department.\u201d<\/a> \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d also became Spotify\u2019s most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 \u2014 and in its first 11 hours of release.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, Amazon Music announced \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d broke the record for most streams in its first 24 hours, globally.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the many streaming options, there will also be a digital-download variant of \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d available via iTunes, featuring a new cover image and a nearly three-minute \u201cexclusive video from Taylor herself detailing inspirations behind the album\u201d labeled \u201cA Look Behind the Curtain.\u201d<\/p>\n

What physical variants are there?<\/p>\n

Target<\/a> is once again a major partner with Swift. Their stores are carrying three CD variants, titled as \u201cIt\u2019s Frightening,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Rapturous\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Beautiful\u201d editions. There is also an exclusive vinyl release, \u201cThe Crowd Is Your King\u201d edition in \u201csummertime spritz pink shimmer vinyl.\u201d Many Target locations will remain open past midnight on the day of release for superfans to pick up in real time.<\/p>\n

There are a number of other vinyl variants as well: \u201cThe Tiny Bubble in Champagne Collection,\u201d which features two vinyl variants described as \u201cunder bright lights pearlescent vinyl\u201d and \u201cred lipstick & lace transparent vinyl.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is also \u201cThe Baby That\u2019s Show Business Collection,\u201d in two colorways: \u201clovely bouquet golden vinyl\u201d and \u201clakeside beach blue sparkle vinyl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s \u201cThe Shiny Bug Collection\u201d in \u201cviolet shimmer marbled vinyl\u201d and \u201cwintergreen and onyx marbled vinyl.\u201d<\/p>\n

And of course, there is the standard LP and cassette, in \u201csweat and vanilla perfume Portofino orange vinyl.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Artwork varies throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Lights, camera, action. Taylor Swift\u2019s 12th studio album, \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[21573,311,65770,8268,18,117,3334,19,1297,17,337,65769,973,4077],"class_list":{"0":"post-104514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-amazon-com","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-data-management-and-storage","11":"tag-domestic-news","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-inc","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-music","19":"tag-spotify-technology-sa","20":"tag-taylor-swift","21":"tag-u-s-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}