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London Boy

Track · Taylor Swift

I Think He Knows

Track · Taylor Swift

Every Breath You Take

Song

Boyfriends

Song · Harry Styles

All Too Well

Song · Taylor Swift

Long Live (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

I Want to Write You a Song

Track · One Direction

No Control

Track · One Direction

Right Now

Track · One Direction

I Would

Track · One Direction

Shape of You

Adore You

Song

Kiwi

Song

Thriller

Michael Jackson

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)

Track · Taylor Swift

Style (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

Out Of The Woods (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

Cruel Summer

Track · Taylor Swift

So Long, London

Track · Taylor Swift

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

Track · Taylor Swift

You're On Your Own, Kid

Track · Taylor Swift

Delicate

Track · Taylor Swift

Watermelon Sugar

Song

Put a Little Love On Me

Song

Red (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

Are You Listening Yet?

Track · Harry Styles

Ready, Steady, Go!

Track · Harry Styles

Dance No More

Track · Harry Styles

Paint By Numbers

Track · Harry Styles

American Girls

Track · Harry Styles

Kiss You

Track · One Direction

I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

august

Track · Taylor Swift

willow

Track · Taylor Swift

The Tortured Poets Department

Track · Taylor Swift

Pop

Track · Harry Styles

Carla's Song

Track · Harry Styles

Lights Up

Song · Harry Styles

Fine Line

Track · Harry Styles

Matilda

Track · Harry Styles

Aperture

Track · Harry Styles

Ever Since New York

Track · Harry Styles

Love Of My Life

Song · Harry Styles

Sign of the Times

Song · Harry Styles

Two Ghosts

Song

She

Song

Golden

Song

Grapejuice

Song

Cinema

Song

Music For a Sushi Restaurant

Song

Girl Crush - Recorded at Metropolis Studios, London

Song

4. But Daddy I Love Him

Song · Taylor Swift

4. Anti-Hero

Song · Taylor Swift

1. Mastermind

Song · Taylor Swift

1. marjorie

Song · Taylor Swift

2. tolerate it

Song · Taylor Swift

4. Getaway Car

Song · Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Future

3. King Of My Heart

Song · Taylor Swift

5. Welcome To New York (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

3. Bad Blood (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

4. Shake It Off (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

1. Blank Space (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

1. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

4. 22 (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

1. Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

3. You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)

Song · Taylor Swift

2. Love Story (Taylor’s Version)

Album · Taylor Swift

Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)

Track · Taylor Swift

You Belong With Me

Track · Taylor Swift

Mean

Track · Taylor Swift

The Man

Track · Taylor Swift

I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)

Track · ZAYN, Taylor Swift

Wi$h Li$t

Track · Taylor Swift

Blank Space

Track · Taylor Swift

Our Song

Track · Taylor Swift

loml

Track · Taylor Swift

Enchanted (Taylor's Version)

Track · Taylor Swift

Out Of The Woods

Song · Taylor Swift

Style

Song · Taylor Swift

Look What You Made Me Do

Song · Taylor Swift

Lover

Song · Taylor Swift

cardigan

Song · Taylor Swift

seven

Song · Taylor Swift

the 1

Song · Taylor Swift

Midnight Rain

Song · Taylor Swift

Karma

Song · Taylor Swift

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

Song · Taylor Swift

So Long, London

Song · Taylor Swift

The Fate of Ophelia

Song · Taylor Swift

Wood

Song · Taylor Swift

Opalite

Song · Taylor Swift

Ruin The Friendship

Song · Taylor Swift

Midnights

Album · Taylor Swift

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Album

In the 18 months after Taylor Swift released <i>Midnights</i>, it often felt as though the universe had fully opened up to her. The Eras Tour was breaking records and blowing past the billion-dollar mark; its attendant concert film became the highest-grossing of all time. She generated interest and commerce and headlines everywhere she stepped foot, from tour stops to the tunnels of NFL stadiums. In 2023, she was named both <i>TIME</i> magazine’s Person of the Year and—just as iconic, tbh—Apple Music’s Artist of the Year. But do songs about that level of success speak to you? As the news broke that her highly private six-year relationship to Joe Alwyn had ended, Swifties started Swiftie-ing, quickly recirculating a clip on social media of Swift a few weeks earlier, onstage during an early Eras show, in tears as she sang “champagne problems”—a song she and Alwyn had written together. It was a reminder that, despite the superhero-like aura she now radiates, Swift, at her peak, still hurts like the rest of us. What sets her apart is her ability to sublimate that pain into pop. When she announced her 11th studio album in early 2024—while accepting another Grammy, as one does—we probably shouldn’t have been surprised. “I needed to make it,” she’d say of <i>THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT</i> a few weeks later, to a crowd of—[rubs eyes]—96,000 in Melbourne, Australia. “I’ve never had an album where I’ve needed songwriting more than I needed it on <i>TORTURED POETS</i>.” Working again with trusted collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, she returns to the soft, comfortable, bed-like sonics of <i>Midnights</i>. But the stakes feel noticeably higher here: This isn’t so much a breakup album as it is a deep-sea exploration of everything Swift has been feeling, a plunge through emotional debris. On “But Daddy I Love Him”—over strings and guitar that faintly recall her country roots—she lashes out at the crush of scrutiny and expectation she’s been subject to from the start. Naturally, catharsis comes after the chorus: “I’ll tell you something right now,” she sings. “I’d rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning.” On “Florida!!!” she and Florence + the Machine team up for a pulpy escape fantasy wherein they Thelma and Louise their way down to the Sunshine State in hopes of starting over with new lives and identities: “Love left me like this,” they sing. “And I don’t want to exist.” At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, <i>TTPD</i> is a study in extremes, Swift leaning into heightened emotions with heightened, hyperbolic, ALL-CAPS language and imagery—how we think when we’re drunk on love or flattened by its sudden disappearance. Note the dark humor she weaves through the Post Malone-enriched opener “Fortnight” (“Your wife waters flowers/I wanna kill her”). Or the thrilling self-deprecation of “Down Bad,” a foray into science fiction wherein Swift likens the warmth of a relationship to being abducted by love-bombing extraterrestrials—only to be left “naked and alone, in a field in my same old town.” But this remains her most candid and unsparing work to date: As a listener, you frequently get the feeling that you’ve stumbled across emails she’d written but never sent, or into conversations you were never meant to hear. There’s a density and a specificity and a ferocity to her lyrical work here that makes 2012’s “All Too Well” feel sorta light by comparison. If you’re the kind of Swiftie who likes to live in the details, well, this one might be your Super Bowl. “You swore that you loved me, but where were the clues?” she asks on the devastating “So Long, London,” a high point. “I died on the altar waiting for the proof.” Alone at a piano on the haunting “loml,” she flips the script on someone who’d told her she was the love of their life, by telling them that they were the loss of hers: “I’ll still see it until I die.” The story, as you likely know, doesn’t end there. We get a glimpse of new beginnings in “The Alchemy” (“This happens once every few lifetimes/These chemicals hit me like white wine”) and something like triumph in the montage-ready synths of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” when Swift, shattered on the floor, “as the crowd was chanting, ‘More!’,” still finds the strength to deliver: “’Cause I’m a real tough kid and I can handle my shit.” But we also get a sense of acceptance, of newfound perspective. On “Clara Bow”—named after a 1920s movie star who was able to survive the jump from silent film to sound—Swift reflects on the journey of a small-town girl made good, sung from the vantage of an industry obsessed with the next big thing. She zooms out and out and out until, in the album’s closing seconds, she’s singing about herself in the third person, in past tense, acknowledging that nothing is forever. “You look like Taylor Swift in this light, we’re loving it,” she sings. “You’ve got edge she never did/The future’s bright, dazzling.”

1989 (Taylor's Version) [Deluxe]

Album

Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

Album · Harry Styles

Taylor Swift

Album · Taylor Swift

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Album · Taylor Swift

Lover

Album · Taylor Swift

evermore (deluxe version)

Album · Taylor Swift

reputation

Album · Taylor Swift

Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Album · Taylor Swift

Red (Taylor's Version)

Album · Taylor Swift

folklore (deluxe version)

Album · Taylor Swift

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY

Album · Taylor Swift

Harry Styles

Artist

Harry Styles’ third solo album, Harry&#39;s House, is breaking new ground for one of the most creative forces in pop music, a star who keeps refusing to stand still. It’s a deeply personal statement from an artist who has never sounded this joyous, this confident, this fearless in facing the future. Harry’s House debuted at Number One on the Billboard Charts and moved 521,00 equivalent album units in its first week. Harry&#39;s House is currently the best-selling album of 2022. “As It Was,” the critically acclaimed lead single, dropped on April 1st and became an instant record-breaking hit, debuting at Number One in both the U.S. and the U.K. “As It Was” became the most-streamed song in the U.S. in a single day in Spotify history and the most-streamed song globally in a single day of 2022. The British singer-songwriter dropped his blockbuster sophomore album Fine Line on Columbia Records in December 2019. It combined critical acclaim with record-setting commercial success, debuting at Number One on the Billboard charts. “Watermelon Sugar” became his first Number One single, winning Styles his first Grammy, for Best Pop Solo Performance and a 2021 BRIT Award for Best British Single. When Rolling Stone released its comprehensive list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Fine Line was the most recent album honored, taking its place in history. Harry is taking Love on Tour worldwide through 2022, in the aftermath of his historic Coachella set, in support of Harry’s House.

Morat

Artist · Morat

One Direction

Artist · One Direction

Harry Styles

Artist · Harry Styles

Olivia Rodrigo

Artist · Olivia Rodrigo

One Direction

Artist

One Direction skillfully blended hooky songs, slick production, and winning personalities together in a way that made them one of the most popular boy bands ever, regardless of era or region. Made up of five distinct vocalists, the group was formed on the U.K. talent show X-Factor and over the course of six years topped the charts with million-selling singles and albums while filling arenas around the world. Their initial songs, like 2011's "What Makes You Beautiful," were bubblegummy and sweet, but the band soon delved into other avenues including indie folk ("Story of My Life") and '80s rock. Despite their popularity never dipping, the band began to splinter in the mid-2000s, then went on hiatus in 2006. The group was formed by <a href="spotify:artist:1Hsdzj7Dlq2I7tHP7501T4">Niall Horan</a> from Mullingar, Ireland; <a href="spotify:artist:5ZsFI1h6hIdQRw2ti0hz81">Zayn Malik</a> from Bradford; <a href="spotify:artist:6KImCVD70vtIoJWnq6nGn3">Harry Styles</a> from Cheshire; <a href="spotify:artist:57WHJIHrjOE3iAxpihhMnp">Louis Tomlinson</a> from Doncaster, and <a href="spotify:artist:5pUo3fmmHT8bhCyHE52hA6">Liam Payne</a> from Wolverhampton (the latter had previously reached the judge's house stages of The X-Factor as a 14-year-old back in 2008). Each originally entered 2010's seventh series of The X Factor as individuals, but following a suggestion from guest judge <a href="spotify:artist:40xbWSB4JPdOkRyuTDy1oP">Nicole Scherzinger</a>, they were grouped together to become One Direction. Mentored by Simon Cowell, they soon became one of the favorites to win the show, thanks to renditions of <a href="spotify:artist:3BmGtnKgCSGYIUhmivXKWX">Kelly Clarkson</a>'s "My Life Would Suck Without You," <a href="spotify:artist:3PhoLpVuITZKcymswpck5b">Elton John</a>'s "Something About the Way You Look Tonight," and <a href="spotify:artist:0SD4eZCN4Kr0wQk56hCdh2">Bonnie Tyler</a>'s "Total Eclipse of the Heart." However, despite receiving a standing ovation for their duet with <a href="spotify:artist:2HcwFjNelS49kFbfvMxQYw">Robbie Williams</a> ("She's the One") in the live final, they eventually finished third behind <a href="spotify:artist:0CrCKxXekxMpkYfMEf8mca">Rebecca Ferguson</a> and winner <a href="spotify:artist:3906URNmNa1VCXEeiJ3DSH">Matt Cardle</a>. Spotting the potential of five <a href="spotify:artist:1uNFoZAHBGtllmzznpCI3s">Justin Bieber</a>-esque teen pin-ups, Cowell signed them to his <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Syco%22">Syco</a> label in a two-million dollar deal, and after performing on the X-Factor tour, the quintet began work on its debut album with Savan Kotecha (<a href="spotify:artist:26dSoYclwsYLMAKD3tpOr4">Britney Spears</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7qG3b048QCHVRO5Pv1T5lw">Enrique Iglesias</a>). Following a sponsorship deal with Nintendo DS and a book, Forever Young, named after their cover of the <a href="spotify:artist:0xliTEbFfy5HQHvsTknTkX">Alphaville</a> classic that was intended to be their winner's song, they released their first single, "What Makes You Beautiful," in late 2011. The full-length album Up All Night followed soon after. In 2012, One Direction became the first British band to debut on top of the Billboard 200 list when Up All Night sold over 176,000 copies during its first week of release in America. In late 2012, One Direction released their sophomore album, Take Me Home. Highlighting more of the band's melodic pop, Take Me Home featured songs and production from Sweden's Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, and Savan Kotecha, who worked on Up All Night, as well as contributions from singer/songwriter <a href="spotify:artist:6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V">Ed Sheeran</a>. The album proved to be another smash and topped charts around the world, earning multi-platinum certification in half-a-dozen countries. The singles "Live While We're Young" and "Little Things" also hit number one across the globe, and "Kiss You" reached the Top Ten in the U.S. One Direction then embarked on a globe-spanning tour in which the band played over 100 shows, including six sold-out nights at London's massive O2 Arena. At the same time, they were being filmed by director Morgan Spurlock for This Is Us, a mix of documentary and concert footage that proved to be successful at the box office when it was released in August of 2013. While they were touring, One Direction also began work on their third album, Midnight Memories. Released just in time for the 2013 holidays, the record featured songwriting input from all the members, a new production team, and some new folk and '80s hair metal influences. It nearly outdid Take Me Home and Up All Night, peaking at number one in seven countries and spawning the singles "Best Song Ever" and "Story of My Life." The group toured the world for most of 2014, but still found time to record a fourth album, which was released in late 2014. Produced by the same team who handled Midnight Memories, Four similarly looked back to the '80s for inspiration and featured a new song from old friend <a href="spotify:artist:6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V">Ed Sheeran</a>. A pair of platinum singles, "Steal My Girl" and "Night Changes," helped the album hit number one in nearly 20 countries. The band returned to the road and a busy promotional schedule in 2015, during which <a href="spotify:artist:5ZsFI1h6hIdQRw2ti0hz81">Malik</a> was often absent. He left the tour due to stress in early March, then officially quit the band a few days later. (He went on to become the first to pursue a solo career.) The four remaining members continued touring, and in July released "Drag Me Down," the first single from their fifth album, Made in the A.M. Following the September announcement of the album, the bandmembers also revealed that, after the promotional efforts for the album were over, they'd be going on hiatus during 2016. Made in the A.M. was released in November of 2015, and featured the singles "Infinity," "Perfect," "What a Feeling," and "History." It performed very well commercially, peaking at number one in the U.K. and number two in the U.S. In 2016, the group went on hiatus, and the individual members all pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Hopes for a possible full band reunion were dashed when <a href="spotify:artist:5pUo3fmmHT8bhCyHE52hA6">Liam Payne</a> died on October 16, 2024, in Buenos Aires. Following his passing, all five of One Direction's studio albums returned to the charts as fans mourned around the globe. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi

Sabrina Carpenter

Artist · Sabrina Carpenter

Ariana Grande

Artist · Ariana Grande

Mac Miller

Artist · Mac Miller

Taylor Swift

Artist

Taylor Swift is that rarest of pop phenomena: a superstar who managed to completely cross over from country to the mainstream. Others have performed similar moves -- notably, <a href="spotify:artist:32vWCbZh0xZ4o9gkz4PsEU">Dolly Parton</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5W5bDNCqJ1jbCgTxDD0Cb3">Willie Nelson</a> both became enduring pop culture icons based on their 1970s work -- but Swift shed her country roots like they were a second skin; it was a necessary molting to reveal she was perhaps the sharpest, savviest populist singer/songwriter of her generation, one who could harness the zeitgeist, make it personal and, just as impressively, perform the reverse. These skills were evident on her earliest hits, especially the neo-tribute "Tim McGraw," but her second album, 2008's Fearless, showcased a songwriter discovering who she was and, in the process, finding a mass audience. Fearless wound up having considerable legs not only in the U.S., where it racked up six platinum singles on the strength of the Top Ten hits "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me," but throughout the world, performing particularly well in the U.K., Canada, and Australia. Speak Now, delivered almost two years later, consolidated that success and moved Swift into the stratosphere of superstardom. Her popularity only increased over her next three albums -- Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017) -- and found her moving assuredly into a pop realm where she already belonged. Even when she scaled back her approach with 2020's stripped-down sibling releases folklore and Evermore, she remained atop the pop world, a position she maintained with re-recordings of her back catalog along with Midnights, a moody album released in 2022. This sense of confidence had been apparent in Taylor Swift since the beginning. The daughter of two bankers -- her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, worked at Merrill Lynch; her mother, Andrea, spent time as a mutual fund marketing executive -- Swift was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and raised in suburban Wyomissing. She began to show interest in music at the age of nine, and <a href="spotify:artist:5e4Dhzv426EvQe3aDb64jL">Shania Twain</a> wound up as her biggest formative influence. Swift started to work regularly at local talent contests, eventually winning a chance to open for <a href="spotify:artist:6UpFUXmXvDV7Qj1SPymamh">Charlie Daniels</a>. Soon, she learned how to play guitar and began writing songs, signing a music management deal with Dan Dymtrow; her family relocated to Nashville with the intent of furthering her music career. She was just 14 years old but on the radar of the music industry, signing a development deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA+Records%22">RCA Records</a> in 2004. Swift sharpened her skills with a variety of professional songwriters, forming the strongest connections with <a href="spotify:artist:7pcKyVIatvXoHdZRr4Q3vT">Liz Rose</a>. Taylor's original songs earned her a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing, but not long after that 2004 deal she parted ways with Dymtrow and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a>, all with the intent of launching her recording career now, not later. Things started moving swiftly once Swift came to the attention of Scott Borchetta, a former <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22DreamWorks+Records%22">DreamWorks Records</a> exec about to launch <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Big+Machine+Records%22">Big Machine Records</a>. Borchetta saw Swift perform at a songwriters showcase at the Bluebird Cafe and he signed her to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Big+Machine%22">Big Machine</a> in 2005; shortly afterward, she started work on her debut with producer Nathan Chapman, who'd previously helmed demos for Taylor. Boasting original song credits on every one of the record's 11 songs (she penned three on her own), Taylor Swift appeared in October 2006 to strong reviews and Swift made sure to work the album hard, appearing at every radio or television event offered and marshaling a burgeoning fan base through the use of MySpace. "Tim McGraw," the first song from the album, did well, but "Teardrops on My Guitar" and "Our Song" did better on both the pop and country charts, where she racked up five consecutive Top Ten singles. Other successes followed in the wake of the debut -- a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist (she lost to <a href="spotify:artist:6Q192DXotxtaysaqNPy5yR">Amy Winehouse</a>), stopgap EPs of Christmas songs -- but Swift concentrated on delivering her sophomore set, Fearless. Appearing in November 2008, Fearless was certified gold by the RIAA in its first week of release, and the record gained momentum throughout 2009, earning several platinum certifications as "Love Story," "White Horse," "You Belong with Me," "Fifteen," and "Fearless" all scaled the upper reaches of the country charts while "You Belong with Me" nearly topped Billboard's Hot 100. Along with the success came some headlines, first in the form of an infamous appearance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards where her acceptance speech was interrupted by <a href="spotify:artist:5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x">Kanye West</a>, who burst on-stage to declare that Swift's rival <a href="spotify:artist:6vWDO969PvNqNYHIOW5v0m">Beyoncé</a> deserved the award more, but her romances also started gaining attention, notably a liaison with Twilight star Taylor Lautner, who appeared with the singer in the 2009 film Valentine's Day. Her flirtation with the silver screen proved brief, as she then poured herself into her third album, Speak Now. Released in October 2010, Speak Now was another massive first-week smash that refused to lose momentum. Hit singles like "Mine" and "Mean," which won two Grammy Awards, played a big factor in its success not just on the country charts but on pop radio as well. Following a 2011 live album called World Tour Live: Speak Now, Swift turned toward following a pop path on her fourth album, hiring such mainstream musicians as <a href="spotify:artist:045EiHd7X7cCjlamF0LV2M">Dan Wilson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7qKoy46vPnmIxKCN6ewBG4">Butch Walker</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:26dSoYclwsYLMAKD3tpOr4">Britney Spears</a> producer <a href="spotify:artist:4e1KgW8FCqVytLFSzEYEKo">Max Martin</a>. This mainstream pulse was evident on "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," the first single from Red. Upon its October 2012 release, Red shattered expectations by selling over a million copies in its first week, a notable achievement that was doubly impressive in an era of declining sales. Once again, Swift's album had legs: it was certified platinum four times in the U.S. and its international sales outstripped those of Speak Now. She supported Red with an international tour in 2013 and more hits came, including "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "22." As Swift geared up for the release of her fifth album in 2014, she made it clear that 1989 was designed as her first "documented, official" pop album and that there would be no country marketing push for the record. "Shake It Off," an ebullient dance-pop throwback, hit number one upon its August 2014 release. When 1989 appeared in late October 2014, it once again shot to number one and became her third straight album to sell one million copies in its first week (a new record for any artist). Swift gathered many awards during the subsequent year, including Billboard's Woman of the Year, the Award for Excellence at the American Music Awards, and a special 50th Anniversary Milestone Award from the CMAs. Her 1989 World Tour crossed Asia, North America, and Europe during the last half of 2015, and she won three Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremonies, including Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Music Video for "Bad Blood." At the end of 2016, she released "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," a duet with ZAYN from the soundtrack for Fifty Shades Darker. The single reached the Top Five across the world. Swift returned with her sixth album, Reputation, in November 2017. Preceded by the number one hit single "Look What You Made Me Do," Reputation debuted at number one, and while it didn't replicate the success of 1989, the album did help underscore her popularity while also pushing her toward mature musicality. Reputation was Swift's final record for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Big+Machine%22">Big Machine</a>. In November 2018, she signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Universal+Music+Group%22">Universal Music Group</a>, which distributed her new albums under its <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Republic+Records%22">Republic Records</a> banner. The first album in this contract was Lover. Released in August 2019, Lover was preceded by two singles, "Me!" and "You Need to Calm Down," which both reached number two on the Hot 100 and helped push the album to number one. The acclaimed LP and two of its singles received a total of three nominations at the 62nd Grammy Awards. Swift's plans to support Lover with a tour in 2020 were scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With some unexpected time on her hands, she wrote and recorded a new set of songs, many in collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:2hSyEBc9TBb9j38FOCdkIf">Aaron Dessner</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:2cCUtGK9sDU2EoElnk0GNB">the National</a>; <a href="spotify:artist:4LEiUm1SRbFMgfqnQTwUbQ">Bon Iver</a> and longtime Swift associate <a href="spotify:artist:414TS3VqZf1XPCBixdmX9n">Jack Antonoff</a> also contributed. The resulting album, folklore, was released on July 24, 2020, and went straight to the top of the Billboard 200. Less than five months later, Swift released a companion album to folklore called Evermore. Featuring many of the same collaborators as its predecessor, the Grammy-nominated Evermore debuted at number one upon its December 11, 2020 release. Altogether, the sibling LPs planted Swift atop the U.S. charts for a combined 11 weeks, and folklore became the best-selling album of 2020. In 2021, she began the process of re-recording her back catalog after her <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Big+Machine%22">Big Machine</a> masters were sold off in 2019, starting with 2008's Fearless. The first of these tracks -- "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" -- arrived that February, with Fearless [Taylor's Version] arriving in April. The new version of Fearless contained cameos from <a href="spotify:artist:6aZyMrc4doVtZyKNilOmwu">Colbie Caillat</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0u2FHSq3ln94y5Q57xazwf">Keith Urban</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6WY7D3jk8zTrHtmkqqo5GI">Maren Morris</a>, along with several previously unheard tunes originally written during the same time period; it debuted at number one on Billboard upon its release. Swift next revisited Red, releasing Red [Taylor's Version] in November 2021. This revamp of the 2012 album featured new duets with <a href="spotify:artist:1r1uxoy19fzMxunt3ONAkG">Phoebe Bridgers</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4YLtscXsxbVgi031ovDDdh">Chris Stapleton</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V">Ed Sheeran</a>, along with a ten-minute version of the ballad "All Too Well." Another re-recording, "This Love (Taylor's Version)" (originally off 1989), arrived in May 2022 and was included in the soundtrack to the coming-of-age drama The Summer I Turned Pretty. Swift opened up another chapter in her career with the October 2022 release of Midnights, an album co-produced by <a href="spotify:artist:414TS3VqZf1XPCBixdmX9n">Jack Antonoff</a> and featuring a duet with <a href="spotify:artist:00FQb4jTyendYWaN8pK0wa">Lana Del Rey</a> on "Snow on the Beach." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Louis Tomlinson

Artist

Following the international success of his 2020 debut album, Walls, which has sold over 1.2 million copies, Louis Tomlinson is back with his new record, Faith In The Future. On his ambitious second effort, the 30-year-old has carefully created a collection of songs designed for the live environment while simultaneously taking his artistry to new heights. "Before lockdown, that phrase just spoke to me," Tomlinson says of the album title. "I had the idea that I&#39;d like to name the album this, then everything happened in the world, and I tweeted out the title one day. I felt this magnetism towards it, and the longer I lived with it, I decided that&#39;s what it is now." One consolatory factor of the pandemic was it gave Tomlinson an extended break for the first time in his career since joining One Direction as an 18-year-old. He meticulously took his time to perfect Faith In The Future and was helped by collaborators such as Rob Harvey, Dan Grech (The Killers, The Vaccines, Halsey), Nico Rebscher (Alice Merton), Joe Cross (Courteeners), and Hurts frontman Theo Hutchcraft. On Faith In The Future, Tomlinson shows off his multi-faceted songwriting capabilities while still being distinctly authentic across the entirety of the genre-spanning record, which exudes confidence at every turn. Louis has never been more assured artistically, and he has every right to be after uncompromisingly expanding his wings and evolving on his head-turning new outing.

Liam Payne

Artist

Liam Payne’s music has been streamed over two billion times to date. His debut single ‘Strip That Down’ featuring Quavo has totalled over 10 million sales worldwide. It is certified Platinum in five countries including the UK and USA, and was one of the biggest selling singles of 2017, as well as the biggest selling solo single from any current member of One Direction. Liam won the Teen Choice Award for recent single ‘Familiar’ with J Balvin, which spent 16 weeks on the UK singles charts and has been streamed over 110 million times on Spotify alone. His duet with Rita Ora, ‘For You’, also released earlier this year, was a UK top ten hit and featured on the Fifty Shades Freed official soundtrack. He released his debut album LP1 on December 6th 2019. Recorded in a variety of locations across the globe including London, New York and LA, the album has Liam’s signature urban pop sound throughout plus some more stripped back tracks. The record sees him collaborating with a host of A-list producers and writers including Ed Sheeran, Ryan Tedder, Zedd, Jonas Blue, Steve Mac, Joe London, and The Monsters and the Strangerz.

ZAYN

Artist

ZAYN is a multi-platinum selling recording artist, songwriter, producer, and philanthropist known for his skyscraping vocals and hybrid style of pop and R&B. In 2023, ZAYN released his first original music in over two years, making his highly anticipated return with “Love Like This.” With his debut solo album, he became the first UK Male Solo artist to simultaneously chart at #1 on the UK and US album charts in the first week of release for his record-breaking album Mind of Mine. The album’s lead single, “PILLOWTALK” hit #1 in 68 countries around the world and has since been certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. The album was followed by his gold certified Icarus Falls and the critically acclaimed Nobody Is Listening. Throughout his career, ZAYN has garnered several accolades including a Billboard Music Award, American Music Award, MTV VMA, and two Brit Award nominations. In 2024, Zayn released his highly anticipated fourth studio album, &#39;ROOM UNDER THE STAIRS&#39;. This album marks his most personal release to date, reflecting where he is in his life while exploring the complexities of healing, stillness and growth. It also sees the genre-bending artist explore a new sound, leaning into his soulful vocals, live instrumentation, and poetic lyricism as a songwriter. In addition to arriving to critical acclaim, the album debuted within the Top 5 across several Billboard charts including, Billboard’s Top Album Sales, Top Rock & Alternative and Americana/Folk Albums chart.