Red is the upcoming fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is scheduled to be released on October 22, 2012 by Big Machine Records as the follow-up to her commercially successful 2010 album Speak Now. It was announced through Swift's live webchat on August 13, 2012, in which she revealed the album title, album cover, as well as answered fan questions. During it she premiered the record's lead single, titled “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, which was released to Google Play later that day.

There will be 16 tracks on the album, not including possible bonus material. Swift said she narrowed down the track list from about 35 songs. Swift has confirmed that a duet with Ed Sheeran, which they co-wrote, will be on the album. Swift stated that starting on September 24, 2012, clips of some of the new songs off of Red will be premiering on Good Morning America. (Wikipedia)

Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated fourth studio album entitled Red will be released worldwide this October.

The first single from Red, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ (written by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback) has already reached platinum sales in New Zealand.

After writing her last album (Speak Now) entirely by herself, for this record Taylor collaborated with several artists, producers, and songwriters she had always wanted to work with.

“For the last two years, I've been working on an album called Red,” Taylor says. “I called it Red because of the tumultuous, crazy adventures in love and loss that it chronicles. In my mind, when you experience love that's fast paced and out of control and mixes infatuation, jealousy, frustration, miscommunication, and all of those lovely emotions…in retrospect, it all looks red.”