Taylor Swift has unveiled the track list and release date for her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
It will arrive Oct. 3, she revealed Wednesday. Swift, Max Martin and Shellback are the credited producers, which includes a notable absence of her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. The album-closing title track will feature Sabrina Carpenter. A full tracklist is below.
Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No release date was announced, but her site said vinyl editions of the album would ship before Oct. 13.
She revealed the new details Wednesday on the New Heights podcast, as well as the artwork, which features the singer submerged in water and continues her colour scheme of orange and mint green.
After pulling the record out of a briefcase, Swift said she worked on the songs while she was in Europe on the record-breaking Eras tour.
"I would be playing shows, I'd do like three shows in a row, I'd have three days off. I'd fly to Sweden, go back to the tour," she said.
"I was physically exhausted at this point in the tour but I was so mentally stimulated and so excited to be creating."
A special limited vinyl edition of the album will be released in "Portofino orange glitter," according to a preorder page on her site. A special cassette edition is also available for preorder.
New Heights, hosted by Swift's boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce alongside his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, had teased an orange image on social media with a mysterious silhouette that many believed to be Swift.
The clip fuelled excitement and speculation among Swift's fans, and the podcast later announced the singer would indeed appear on the show.

The Life of a Showgirl follows last year's The Tortured Poets Department, released during the Eras tour, which raked in about $3 Billion Cdn across two years and five continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.
The album is also Swift's first release since she regained control over her entire body of work.
In May, the pop star said she purchased her catalogue of recordings — originally released through Big Machine Records — from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount paid.
In recent years, Swift had been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The project was instigated by music executive Scooter Braun's purchase and sale of her early catalog.
So far, there have been four re-recorded albums, beginning with Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021. All four have been massive commercial and cultural successes, each debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Swift's last re-recording, 1989 (Taylor's Version), arrived in October 2023. That was the same year Swift claimed the record for the woman with the most No. 1 albums in history.
Here's the full tracklist for The Life of a Showgirl:
The Fate of Ophelia Elizabeth Taylor Opalite Father Figure Eldest Daughter Ruin the Friendship Actually Romantic Wi$h Li$t Wood Cancelled! Honey The Life of a Showgirl (featuring Sabrina Carpenter)