Taylor Swift, Red Album | featured news

Taylor Swift’s “Red” appeared to be the music gift of choice among last-minute shoppers, posting a sixth week in the No. 1 slot in the final week before Christmas and adding another 276,000 copies to its total, which is closing in on 3 million.

Taylor Swift announced during a live YouTube chat that she will release her next album, “Red,” on Oct. 22. Of the emotions expressed on the album, she said: “They’re all pretty much about the kind of tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I’ve experienced in the last two years,” adding that there’s “nothing beige” about any of the emotions expressed in her new music. She also shared the first single, called, as you probably already guessed, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”