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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s 1989 spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ...

Taylor Swift is taking listeners back to her "1989" era with the release of "1989 (Taylor's Version)" Oct. 27 — and by "1989," we mean 2014, when the album came out. Swift was 24 years old at the time ...

Archival photos plot nearly every historic moment of Hungary throwing off the shackles of Soviet control 35 years ago. 1 A communist red star is removed from a factory in Budapest in 1989. 3 A ...

The winds of change were blowing by 1989 (no, not that wind), and it was evident all across the rock music spectrum. Big-haired, sex-obsessed rockers were still clinging to the charts, but they had to ...

Taylor keeps her re-records very close to the originals, but five previously unreleased songs add depth and context to what was then her galactic, career-shifting pop debut. The most striking moments ...

Nine years to the day since the release of Taylor Swift’s “1989,” the singer’s rerecorded version of her blockbuster 2014 album is here: “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” hit streaming services at 9 p.m. PT ...

Like any serious literary work, Taylor Swift leads the new songs on her albums with an introduction — or, in her words, a prologue. With the release of "1989 (Taylor's Version)" Oct. 27, fans were ...

Swift named 1989 after the year she was born, but the album became the moment of her artistic rebirth. While making the record, she immersed herself in Eighties pop, diving into Peter Gabriel, Annie ...

Check out our preliminary song ranking of the five "From The Vault" tracks. By Jason Lipshutz Editor The arrival of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was always going to be a big deal: after all, her 2014 album ...

Taylor Swift is up to her old Midnights tricks. Her 10th studio album celebrated its one-year anniversary last weekend, and if you look at 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and squint really hard, you can see ...