reputation

Product Information

Reputation was released in various territories on digital and physical formats on November 10, 2017, by Big Machine Records.

The album was Swift's fourth consecutive to debut atop the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of over one million copies; it spent four weeks atop the chart. On August 18, 2017, Swift blanked out all of her social media accounts, [77] which prompted media speculation on new music. They overshadowed her public advocacy; the praise she received for her victory in a sexual assault trial, part of an ongoing public debate about sexual misconduct, had minimal impact in improving her image. Reputation was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, and it was listed on Slant Magazine 's list of the best albums of the 2010s. Swift produced Reputation with two teams: one with Jack Antonoff and the other with Max Martin and Shellback; she had worked with all three on 1989.For some critics, though Reputation is not as accomplished as Swift's other albums, its hip-hop experimentation and detail-heavy songwriting led to her refined craftsmanship on subsequent records, namely Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), and Midnights (2022).

It should have the whole gamut of what it actually is like for the artist to be alive at that moment. It opened at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week figures of 1,238,000 album-equivalent units that consisted of 1,216,000 pure sales—more than any other albums on the chart that week combined. Swift said that Reputation consists of a linear timeline: it begins with how she felt when she started working on the album and transitions to how she felt by the time she completed it.I don't usually like pop music, but this is an unironic exception because the less cringeworthy moments of this LP is worth more than most of the things in the current industry in my opinion. Now, to really appreciate this wonderful music to the fullest, only vinyl will deliver the naturalness and warmth as well as capturing all of the tones that these magnificent songs were meant to offer.

The album was announced after Swift removed all previous social media presence and uploaded three videos of a snake’s tail, body, and head in August 2017; most considered this a reference to the “snake” nickname she was given after it was revealed she wrote Calvin Harris' “This Is What You Came For” after their breakup, which worsened during public fallouts with Kanye West and Katy Perry. There's a newfound complexity to all these songs: They're dark and meaningful, catchy and lived-in, pointed and provocative. Reputation] was interesting because I'd never before had an album that wasn't fully understood until it was seen live. Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake.Throughout late 2017 and early 2018, a string of singles were released to support the album: "End Game" was released to French radio by Mercury Records on November 14, [105] "New Year's Day" impacted US country radio on November 27, [106] and "Delicate" was released to US pop radio on March 12.