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 and her last to be promoted as country music.

To convey the complex and conflicting feelings ensuing from lost love through music, Swift engaged new producers to experiment with styles other than the country pop sound of her past albums. She produced the majority of Red with her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman and the rest with Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, and Butch Walker. The album incorporates styles of pop, rock, folk, and country, composed of acoustic instruments, electronic synths, and drum machines. Initial reviews mostly praised Swift's songwriting for its emotional exploration and engagement, but critics deemed the production inconsistent and questioned her identity as a country artist.

Swift supported Red with 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 for surpassing seven million album-equivalent units.

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. Retrospectively, critics have regarded Red as a career-defining work that showcased her evolved songcraft and as 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.