Red (Taylor Swift album)

Red
Standard edition cover
Studio album by Taylor Swift
Released	October 22, 2012 (2012-10-22)
Recorded	2011–2012
Studio	Blackbird (Nashville) Pain in the Art (Nashville) Ballroom West (New York) Instrument Landing (Minneapolis) MXM (Stockholm) Conway (Los Angeles) Village (Los Angeles) Garage (Topanga Canyon) Ruby Red (Atlanta)[1]
Genre	Pop country rock
Length	65:09
Label	Big Machine
Producer	Taylor Swift Nathan Chapman Jeff Bhasker Dann Huff Jacknife Lee Max Martin Shellback Butch Walker Dan Wilson
Taylor Swift chronology
Speak Now World Tour – Live (2011) Red (2012) 1989 (2014)
Singles from Red
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Released: August 13, 2012 "Begin Again" Released: October 1, 2012 "I Knew You Were Trouble" Released: November 27, 2012 "22" Released: March 12, 2013 "Red" Released: June 24, 2013 "Everything Has Changed" Released: July 14, 2013 "The Last Time" Released: November 4, 2013

Red is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records. Swift designated Red as a breakup album that portrays the complex and conflicting feelings ensuing from lost love.

Hoping to convey those sentiments through music, Swift engaged new producers to experiment with styles beyond the country pop sound of her past albums. The ensemble included Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. Red incorporates styles of pop, country, and rock, using acoustic instruments alongside electronic synths and drum machines. Initial reviews mostly praised Swift's songwriting for its emotional exploration and engagement but were divided on the production, with critics deeming it inconsistent and questioning her identity as a country artist.

Red was supported by a world tour, the Red Tour (2013–2014). The singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 on charts worldwide. Red topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it spent seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 and made Swift the first artist since the Beatles to have three albums each with at least six weeks at number one on that chart. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album seven-times platinum.

Red was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Association Awards, and Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. The critical debate influenced Swift to relinquish her country identity on subsequent releases. Retrospectively, critics have regarded Red as a career-defining work showcasing Swift's evolved songcraft and a transitional album bridging her country roots to mainstream pop. Many publications ranked it among the best albums of the 2010s decade, and Rolling Stone placed it at number 99 on their 2023 revision of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Following a 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the album and released it as Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021.