Fearless (Taylor's Version), the first of her six re-recorded albums, was released on April 9, 2021, followed by Red (Taylor's Version) on Novemboth achieved critical and commercial success, debuting atop the US Billboard 200 chart. Swift began the re-recording process in November 2020. In August 2019, Swift denounced Braun's purchase and announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums so as to own their masters herself. In 2019, American businessman Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine the ownership of the masters to Swift's first six studio albums, including Speak Now, transferred to him. She hence withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new deal with Republic Records, which secured her the rights to own the masters of any new music she would release. Swift released three more studio albums under Big Machine, as per her recording contract, which expired in November 2018. At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards (2012), its single " Mean" won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Speak Now achieved the Guinness World Record as the fastest selling album in the US by a female country act. It received positive reviews from music journalists, who have since praised it for being a self-written Swift album about "dismissals of exploitative male characters and poetic embrace of girlhood." It sold over 1,047,000 copies within its opening week in the United States-the largest first week in history for a female country artist, and the first million-selling week of Swift's career, a feat she would go on to repeat five more times. A predominantly pop rock and country pop album, Speak Now was entirely self-written by Swift. Taylor Swift released her third studio album, Speak Now, on October 25, 2010, under Big Machine Records. Swift looking back on Speak Now on her social media Swift performing on the Speak Now World Tour (2011–2012) All 22 of its tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, with " I Can See You" as its highest charting song at number five. In the United States, it marked Swift's 12th album to top the Billboard 200 chart, breaking Barbra Streisand's all-time record for the most number-one albums by a female artist. Commercially, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) reached number one on albums charts of Australia, Canada, Belgian Flanders, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Some critics nonetheless debated the lyrical change on the re-recording of " Better than Revenge" with mixed opinions. The album received acclaim from music critics, who complimented the vocals and emotionally engaging songwriting. Lyrically, it is a loose concept album about unspoken confessions that document the volatile emotions of Swift's adolescence. Its dynamic compositions consist of acoustic instruments alongside electric guitars, drums, and strings. Strongly influenced by rock styles, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is an incorporation of country pop and pop rock, with styles of emo, pop-punk, and gothic rock. The American rock musicians Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams featured on two vault tracks. The album contains re-recorded versions of the 16 songs from Speak Now's deluxe edition, produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe and six previously unreleased "From the Vault" tracks, produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. Swift wrote all 22 tracks on Speak Now (Taylor's Version) by herself. The album was announced on May 5, 2023, at the first Nashville show of her Eras Tour. It is a re-recording of Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), part of Swift's counteraction to a 2019 masters dispute regarding the ownership of her back catalog. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is the third re-recorded album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 7, 2023, by Republic Records.
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