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Taylor Swift releases second surprise album of 2020 - Kiwi artist on how that's possible

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Newstalk ZB / AP,
Publish Date
Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 5:57pm
Taylor Swift's new album Evermore is described by Swift as a 'sister album' to the Grammy-nominated Folklore, released in July. Photo / Supplied
Taylor Swift's new album Evermore is described by Swift as a 'sister album' to the Grammy-nominated Folklore, released in July. Photo / Supplied

Taylor Swift releases second surprise album of 2020 - Kiwi artist on how that's possible

Author
Newstalk ZB / AP,
Publish Date
Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 5:57pm

Taylor Swift fans are getting a double reason to celebrate this year — the singer-songwriter has released her second album in 2020.

"To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs," Swift wrote in social media posts. "I've never done this before. In the past I've always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released."

Swift said the new album is called "Evermore," which she described as a "sister" album to her latest release, "Folklore." A video for a new song, "Willow," will arrive along with the album, to be released at midnight ET Thursday.

Taylor revealed the track list for the 15-song new album and noted that some of the guests are Haim, The National and Bon Iver. She turns 31 on Sunday.

"Folklore," released this summer, enjoyed three separate visits to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and became the first album to sell a million copies in the U.S. in 2020.

New Zealand artist Troy Kingi, who has plans to release 10 albums in 10 years, joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to discuss how you can find the time to record so much music.

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