For over a decade, Taylor Swift has been offering fans a multitude of options when it comes to purchasing her albums across physical formats with exclusive editions available through a longstanding partnership with Target. To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. Olivia Rodrigo's Guts, SZA's SOS, Foo Fighters' But Here We Are and numerous other outstanding releases are all in the running and likely nominees.

Few artists, if any, attract as much attention as Swift does for her promotion and sales strategy, thanks largely to her close relationship with her fans. In large part, Midnights is a record of interiors, Swift letting us glimpse the chaos inside her head (“Anti-Hero”, wall-to-wall zingers) and the stillness of her relationship (“Sweet Nothing”, co-written by Alwyn under his William Bowery pseudonym).Talk your talk and go viral,” she sings, in reference to the maelstrom of outside interest in her six-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. Her newest rerelease includes all 13 songs from the original album, as well as five new vault tracks, which are “Is It Over Now? Voters may hesitate to elevate her above such esteemed artists who have also achieved this milestone, especially considering she’s still so young. In today’s streaming-centric music industry, physical albums have become collectible tokens of fandom, and artists have been responding to growing demand. Her latest album Midnights, released in late 2022, has been nothing short of a commercial and critical sensation.

She previously dropped Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which means there are only two left: Taylor Swift (Taylor’s Version) and Reputation (Taylor’s Version). Grammy voters might be wary of granting her the same honor once again in such a short time frame, even if Midnights is deserving of the trophy. On October 27th, Taylor Swift became the most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2023 so far.BTS and other K-pop megastars regularly rack up huge numbers by selling CDs and LPs with different colors and exclusive postcards and photos sold as collectible items, with the music as a secondary benefit.

That plethora of options is great for fans who may want a different version than their friends, or who — as many seem to — feel driven to collect them all.LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 05: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Taylor Swift attends the 65th GRAMMY . It’s also great for Swift, who’s earning more money from increased sales that will impact her performance on the Billboard charts and likely add up to one of the year’s best album debut weeks. Such disparate acts as Denzel Curry and Slipknot have recently released various physical versions of their new albums as well. On Midnights, her tenth LP and fourth in as many years—if you don’t count the two she’s just re-recorded and buttressed with dozens of additional tracks—Swift sounds like she’s really enjoying her work, playing with language like kids do with gum, thrilling to the texture of every turn of phrase, the charge in every melody and satisfying rhyme.