1989 (Taylor Swift album)
1989 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 27, 2014 through Big Machine Records. Swift began composing the album following the release of her previous studio effort, Red (2012). Over the course of the two-year songwriting period, she collaborated with producers Max Martin and Shellback—Martin served as the album’s executive producer alongside Swift. The album’s title was named after the singer’s birth year and its music was inspired by the pop music of the 1980s.
The album represents a departure from the country music of Swift’s previous albums, and is described by the singer as her “first documented official pop album.” Contrasting her previous endeavors, the production of 1989 consists of drum programming, synthesizers, pulsating bass, processed backing vocals, and guitars. 1989 received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics and it was ranked as one of the best albums of 2014 by several publications, including Billboard, Time, and Rolling Stone.
1989 sold 1.287 million copies in the United States during its first week of release and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It became the best-selling album of 2014 in the United States, with total sales of 6.11 million copies as of December 2017, while selling 10.1 million worldwide. Seven singles were released from the album: “Shake It Off”, “Blank Space”, and “Bad Blood” all reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, with other singles reaching the chart’s top-ten (“Style” and “Wildest Dreams”) and top-20 (“Out of the Woods”). The first five singles all received a multi-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 1989 won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2015, making Swift the first female artist to win the award twice, having previously won in 2010 for Fearless.
Track listing
Standard version
1. “Welcome to New York”
Taylor Swift Ryan Tedder
Tedder Noel Zancanella Swift
3:32
2. “Blank Space”
Swift Max Martin Shellback
Martin Shellback
3:51
3. “Style”
Swift Martin Shellback Ali Payami
Martin Shellback Payami
3:51
4. “Out of the Woods”
Swift Jack Antonoff
Antonoff Swift Martin[a]
3:55
5. “All You Had to Do Was Stay”
Swift Martin
Martin Shellback Mattman & Robin
3:13
6. “Shake It Off”
Swift Martin Shellback
Martin Shellback
3:39
7. “I Wish You Would”
Swift Antonoff
Antonoff Swift Greg Kurstin[b] Martin
3:27
8. “Bad Blood”
Swift Martin Shellback
Martin Shellback
3:31
9. “Wildest Dreams”
Swift Martin Shellback
Martin Shellback
3:40
10. “How You Get the Girl”
Swift Martin Shellback
Martin Shellback
4:07
11. “This Love” Swift
Nathan Chapman Swift
4:10
12. “I Know Places”
Swift Tedder
Tedder Zancanella Swift
3:15
13. “Clean”
Swift Imogen Heap
Heap Swift
4:30
Personnel
Credits are adapted from liner notes of 1989.
Taylor Swift – lead vocals, writer, producer, executive producer, background vocals, heartbeat, claps, shouts, acoustic guitar, vocals
Max Martin – vocal production, producer, writer, keyboard, programming, executive producer, piano, claps, shouts, background vocals
Shellback – producer, writer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion, programming, shouts, stomps, additional guitars, guitar, knees, noise, claps, drums, background vocals
Ali Payami – writer, producer, keyboards, programming
Ryan Tedder – producer, recording, writer, background vocals, piano, juno, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drum programming, additional synth, additional programming
Noel Zancanella – producer, drum programming, synthesizer, bass, additional synth, additional programming
Jack Antonoff – writer, producer, background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Nathan Chapman – producer, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, recording
Imogen Heap – producer, writer, recording, vibraphone, drums, mbira, percussion, programming, keyboards, background vocals
Jason Campbell – production coordinator
Mattman & Robin – producer, programming, drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion
Greg Kurstin – additional production, keyboards
Niklas Ljungfelt – guitar
Jonas Thander – saxophone
Jonas Lindeborg – trumpet
Magnus Wiklund – trombone
Michael Ilbert – recording
Smith Carlson – recording
Laura Sisk – recording
Sam Holland – recording
Matthew Tryba – assistant recording
Eric Eylands – assistant recording
Brendan Morawski – assistant recording
Cory Bice – assistant recording
Serban Ghenea – mixing
John Hanes – engineered for mix
Peter Carlsson – Pro Tools engineer
Tom Coyne – mastering
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