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Taylor Swift might be spending another week at No. 1 on the album chart soon. But if so, it won\u2019t be with her blockbuster studio album from last year, \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department.\u201d Rather, it would be \u201cLover (Live From Paris),\u201d a new vinyl version of which the singer put up for sale in her webstore Tuesday morning, resulting in a near-instant sellout.<\/p>\n
Fans exulted when a notice went out via social media and email that a new pressing of the extremely rare album was being made available until this Friday night at midnight, \u201cor while supplies last.\u201d Not everyone got to partake in the joy, though \u2014 did only did supplies not last for three-and-a-half days, they were depleted in less than an hour.<\/p>\n
Even with the release selling out before most fans even knew it went on sale, it could still have a shot at No. 1, if Swift sleuths are correct in believing that somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 copies went on sale and immediately sold through in the U.S. That could make it the top album for the week, or at the very least a contender for the top 5, even without any streaming support or additional sales. (The current chart-topper, SZA\u2019s deluxe album, made it to No. 1 with 130,000 album equivalent units, with the next closest contender far behind at 70,000.)<\/p>\n
Swift\u2019s camp has not released any information about how many copies were pressed, or whether the album might be restocked during the three-day window or if it\u2019s really all gone. Some fans believe they were able to get a glimpse of remaining inventory in different parts of the world and saw that number rapidly diminishing, starting at more than 135,000 and going down by as much as 25,000 copies every five minutes, before the \u201cnot available\u201d sign went up. Variety<\/em> has not independently verified those fan-circulated numbers.<\/p>\n \u201cLover (Live From Paris)\u201d had previously reached a peak of No. 58 on the Billboard 200 chart, based on it selling a grand total of 13,000 copies on vinyl \u2014 per Luminate \u2014 upon its very, very limited release in February 2023. It was on sale for such a brief window that most Swifties aren\u2019t even aware of its existence, and those who are have coveted it as her rarest official vinyl release, regularly selling for over $1,000 when it turns up on eBay.<\/p>\n This new pressing will probably make that previous one a bit less valuable\u2026 although the older one will hold some value because of being pressed in different colors. But even the edition released Tuesday may come to be seen as a collectors\u2019 item, as some people who snapped it up immediately began reselling it on eBay for $100 and up.<\/p>\n \u201cLover (Live From Paris)\u201d is a two-record set on heart-shaped, colored vinyl that contains eight versions of songs from her \u201cLover\u201d studio album, recorded in Paris in 2019 and first released digitally in 2020 in conjunction with an ABC television concert special. The tracks were released individually but are not available as a full digital album on most music services, let alone on CD, making the vinyl iteration even more of a fetish item.<\/p>\n Swift fans who were successful in buying \u201cLover (Live From Paris)\u201d during the brief window of opportunity Tuesday morning were told that it will begin shipping on Jan. 20, which is presumably the time at which sales officially count and Luminate will get a tally, potentially impacting the album chart in the last week of the month.<\/p>\n Fans posted images to show how the colors in the extremely rare 2023 release compare with the apparently-still-pretty-rare 2025 version:<\/p>\n What has been described as Taylor Swift’s rarest vinyl album, ‘Lover (Live From Paris),’ got a re-release Tuesday but sold out in under an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"yoast_head":"\n\n![\"Taylor](\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-07-at-1.54.48\u202fPM.png?w=1024\")
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