Here are Taylor Swift Album covers never go out of style! Strutting onto the music scene at just 16 years old with her guitar, a country twang and a dream, Taylor Swift has consistently fed her discography with a (not-so-invisible) string of albums since 2006.

At 14, Swift packed her bags and moved from Pennsylvania to Tennessee to pursue her love for country music.

Two years later, she released her debut studio album, Taylor Swift, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 Chart. All five singles released from the album, including “Our Song” and “Teardrops on My Guitar,” were certified platinum by the RIAA. Swift’s fourth studio album, Red, features 16 songs — including hits like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I Knew You Were Trouble” and a collaboration with Ed Sheeran.

Every Tuesday leading up to the album’s release, Swift released a new song from the album. In its debut week, Red sold approximately two albums every second, according to Billboard. Named after the year she was born, Swift’s fifth album, 1989, marked her transition from country to pop.

“My music before this has been very guitar-heavy, live drums, it’s had a very acoustic sound at its core,” Swift said in PEOPLE’s 40th Anniversary issue in 2014. “This is a sound that’s based in synth pop and keyboards and automated drums and vocal layering.” The album won three Grammy Awards in 2016, including album of the year and best pop vocal album. After releasing her record-breaking pop album 1989, Swift announced via social media that she would be releasing her sixth studio album, Reputation, on Nov. 10, 2017.

With black and white cover art that featured Swift sporting her signature dark lip, slicked-back hair and a sweatshirt, the mock newspaper headlines and columns superimposed over part of her face gave a strong hint that she was about to address the drama that had encompassed her life, including the longstanding feud with rapper Kanye West and ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

The album reached No. 1 in 13 countries, and its accompanying stadium run became the highest-grossing tour of all time in the United States.
With a new, lighter color palette making its way across the singer-songwriter’s social media beginning in early 2019, fans knew Swift was up to something — and hoped it was a new album.

Clues were confirmed in April when Swift revealed the first single and its music video, “ME,” featuring the album’s title hidden in the clip. Two months after announcing her seventh studio album Lover in June — along with the second single, “You Need to Calm Down” — she released the record that featured singles like “The Man” and “Lover.”

In June 2023, Swift made “Cruel Summer,” the fifth single off of Lover, which topped the Billboard 100 for four consecutive weeks.
As black and white images of trees started dotting Swift’s Instagram page in mid-July 2020, Swifties attempted to figure out what it all meant shortly before the singer-songwriter shocked her fans with a surprise — her eighth studio album, Folklore, would drop at midnight.

“Before this year, I probably would’ve overthought when to release this music at the ‘perfect’ time, but the times we’re living in keep reminding me that nothing is guaranteed,” she captioned her announcement via Instagram. “My gut is telling me that if you make something you love, you should just put it out into the world. That’s the side of uncertainty I can get on board with.”

With Folklore reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and all of its 16 tracks appearing on the Billboard Top 100, Swift became the first artist to top both charts in the same week. The record would then become her third album of the year win. Fans flipped when Swift dropped hints about another album — her second of quarantine! — in December 2020. Evermore hit on Dec. 11, framed as a “sister album” to Folklore.

“To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs,” Swift shared on Twitter (now X). “To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in.”

The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed in the top spot for four consecutive weeks. Seven months later, Swift was all ready to “Begin Again” with her fourth studio album, Red, by releasing all 30 songs originally intended for the LP. The album made a huge impact, topping the Billboard 200 chart and causing a 1,400 percent spike in searches for red scarves and red lipstick.

“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end,” Swift shared in her album announcement on Instagram in 2021. “I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators… Something was healed along the way.”

Among the nine “From the Vault” tracks, the standout from Red (Taylor’s Version) was the original 10-minute version of fan favorite “All Too Well,” which broke the record as the longest song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100, surpassing Don McLean’s “American Pie.” The smash hit also had an accompanying, self-directed musical short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, which won the Grammy for best music video and an MTV Music Video Award for video of the year.

The album cover — reflecting the season of its release (autumn) and its title — features Swift sporting a crimson lip and an auburn cap while seated in a scarlet-red vehicle. In October 2023, Swift announced the reworked version of her celebrated 2014 album 1989, featuring all 16 original tracks alongside five never-before-heard songs.

“I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly,” Swift captioned an Instagram post in 2023. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic would you sprinkle on my life for so long.”

During her Eras Tour, Swift debuted the revamped artwork for 1989 (Taylor’s Version), offering a slight departure from the original. While the 2014 cover showcases Swift’s non-smiling face from the nose down, the re-recorded version exhibits the now-smiling popstar in full, set against a backdrop of blue sky and flying seagulls (which adorned her sweater on the original cover).

The album soared to the top of the charts, marking the singer-songwriter’s 13th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (which also happens to be her lucky number). Its staggering first-week sales of 1.6 million units in the U.S. (and over 3.5 million units worldwide) broke her previous record set with the original 1989, which stood at 1.287 million units.

Following her trend of strategic announcements, Swift unveiled her next studio album during another televised event — the Grammys — while accepting her 13th Grammy Award. Although fans speculated about a re-recording of Reputation (Taylor’s Version) due to her social media profile changes to a black-and-white aesthetic, they were surprised to learn about a new era of The Tortured Poets Department.

Shortly after her mic-drop speech, she revealed the album cover on Instagram, which exhibits a grayscale image of Swift lying in a bed while sporting a blank tank and shorts. Alongside the 16 tracks in the standard edition, Swift announced four additional versions (The Manuscript Edition, The Bolter Edition, The Albatross Edition and The Black Dog Edition), each with alternative cover art and exclusive bonus tracks.