Speak Now is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriterTaylor Swift. It was released on October 25, 2010, throughBig Machine Records. Swift wrote the album entirely herself whiletouring in 2009–2010 to reflect on her transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Swift framedSpeak Now as a looseconcept album about the unsaid things she wanted to deliver to the subjects of her songs. Using confessional songwriting, the album is mostly about heartbreak and reflections on broken relationships, and some tracks were inspired by Swift's rising stardom in the public eye to address her critics and adversaries. She andNathan Chapman producedSpeak Now, which combinescountry pop,country rock,pop rock, andpower pop. Its songs incorporate prominentrock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chimingelectric guitars, dynamic drums, andorchestral strings.
The success ofFearless made Swift one of country music's biggest stars tocrossover into the mainstream market.[8][9] At the2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where Swift wonBest Female Video for "You Belong with Me", the rapperKanye West interrupted her acceptance speech; the incident received widespread media coverage and became known as "Kanyegate".[10][11] At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Swift sang "You Belong with Me" and "Rhiannon" withStevie Nicks; some critics commented Swift performed with weak vocals.[12]MTV News commented the MTV Awards incident transformed Swift into a "bona-fide mainstream celebrity",[13] andThe New York Times said it was refreshing to see a talented singer-songwriter like Swift "make the occasional flub".[14] Swift began writing for her third studio album immediately after she releasedFearless and continued during herFearless Tour in 2009 and 2010.[15]
Because of her extensive touring schedule, Swift wrote her third album alone: "I'd get my best ideas at 3:00 a.m. in Arkansas, and I didn't have a co-writer around so I would just finish it. That would happen again in New York and then again in Boston and that would happen again in Nashville."[15] Inspired by her growth into adulthood, she conceivedSpeak Now as a looseconcept album about the things she wanted to tell certain people she had met but never had a chance to.[15] As with her songwriting on previous albums, Swift strove to convey emotional honesty with details as specifically as possible, believing it is important for a songwriter to do so.[15] She described her songs as "diary entries" about her emotions that helped her navigate adulthood.[16][17] Swift chose not to follow the trend of making increasingly sexualized music by artists of her age and believed such a path would be incongruent with her artistic vision.[note 1]
Theorchestralstring-laden "Back to December" is about Swift's confession of her wrongdoings and plea for an ex-lover's forgiveness, departing from the starry-eyed romance of her previous songs.
Departing fromFearless's theme of fairy tales and starry-eyed romance,Speak Now explores introspection and reflections on broken relationships.[15][19] By avoiding sexual references in its songs, the album kept Swift's "good-girl" image intact.[note 2] Some tracks were inspired by Swift's public experience, including past relationships with high-profile celebrities, which received media attention during the album's promotional rollout.[19][21] The confessional lyrics ofSpeak Now are more direct and confrontational than those on Swift's past albums.[22] On "Back to December", she asks an ex-lover to forgive her wrongdoings.[23] Swift wrote the title track, "Speak Now", after hearing a friend's ex-boyfriend was marrying another woman; in the lyrics, the protagonist crashes the ex-boyfriend's wedding and tries to halt it.[21][24] "Dear John" narrates a devastating relationship of a 19-year-old female narrator who accuses a much-older man of manipulating her with "dark, twisted games".[21] Swift's encounter with an ex-lover at an awards show, where they ignored each other despite Swift feeling a need to speak to him inspired "The Story of Us".[25] On "Better than Revenge", Swift affirms vengeance against a romantic rival who is known for "the things she does on the mattress".[21][26]
Romantic optimism is another theme of the album.[15][21] The opening track "Mine" is about Swift's hope of attaining happiness despite her tendency to "run from love" to avoid heartbreak.[16] It was the first song she included on the track list because it represents her then-new perspective of romance.[27] Swift had written "Sparks Fly"—a song about dangerous hints of love at first sight—before she released her 2006 debut album,Taylor Swift.[28] She re-recorded the song forSpeak Now after she received fan request to release it at the 2010CMA Music Festival.[15] "Enchanted" describes the aftermath of an encounter with a special person without knowing whether the infatuation would be reciprocated.[21] "Haunted" is about romantic obsession and "Last Kiss" explores the lingering feelings after a breakup.[21] On "Long Live", Swift expresses gratitude to her fans and bandmates.[29] The lyrics of "Enchanted" and "Long Live" incorporate high-school-prom and fairy-tale imagery that recalls the youthful optimism ofFearless.[30][31]
The 2009 MTV Awards incident withKanye West(pictured) inspired "Innocent".
Besides love and romance, Swift wrote about self-perception. "Never Grow Up" is a contemplation of her childhood, adulthood, and future.[26][24] The self-aware "Mean", in which Swift sings about facing a man who had tried to take her down, was inspired by her detractors.[32][33] Because of her confessional songwriting, the media became invested in Swift's personal life and believed each song is about a real person: an ex-lover, a friend, or an enemy.[18][21] Although Swift was interested to hear the response from the people to whom she dedicated the songs, she did not publicly name them and believed they would realize this themselves.[18][21] She did reveal that Kanye West, who interrupted Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, was the subject of "Innocent".[25] In the track, Swift sings about forgiving a man who wronged her; according toEsquire, the track can be interpreted as "a simple lament of a lost love, or a former friend being forgiven".[34]
Swift wrote as many as 25 songs and by early 2010, she had begun to select songs for the album.[15][27] To ensure the album would be coherent, she played the songs to her family, friends, and the producerNathan Chapman,[15] who had worked with Swift on both of her previous albums.[35] Swift choseEnchanted as a working title but Big Machine Records' founderScott Borchetta recommended Swift choose a different title, deemingEnchanted unfit for the album's mature perspective.[note 3] She settled on the titleSpeak Now because she thought it best captures the album's essence: "I think it's such a metaphor, that moment where it's almost too late, and you've got to either say what it is you are feeling or deal with the consequences forever ... And this album seemed like the opportunity for me to speak now or forever hold my peace."[21] Swift finalized the track list by June 2010.[16]
Swift recorded much ofSpeak Now with Chapman at his Pain in the Art Studio in Nashville.[36] AlthoughFearless's commercial success allowed Swift to engage a larger group of producers, she worked solely with Chapman because she believed they had a productive relationship.[36] The recording process started with ademo; Swift recorded vocals and played guitar, and Chapman sang background vocals and played other instruments. After arranging the demos, they approached otherengineers and musicians to tweak some elements, includingoverdubs andprogrammed drums.[36] The first track Chapman produced with Swift onSpeak Now is "Mine", which they recorded within five hours.[36]
Because of his artistic autonomy, Chapman said he was responsible for "60 percent of the music on the album, including 90 percent of the guitars".[36] Much of his production forSpeak Now is identical to that forFearless; he programmed the drums withToontrack's softwareSuperior Drummer, played drums on theRoland Fantom G6 keyboard, added electric guitars to the arrangements, recorded Swift's vocals with an Avantone CV12 microphone and his background vocals with aShure SM57, produced thebass with an Avalon VT737preamplifier, and used Endless Audio's CLASP System to synchronize his editing onPro Tools andLogic.[36] To make the sounds align with country music stylings, Chapman worked with other Nashville musicians to replace the programmed drums with live drums and add acoustic instruments such asfiddle.[36] For instance, Chapman asked Steve Marcantonio to cut down programmed drums on "Mine" atBlackbird Studio in Nashville.[36] For some tracks, including "Back to December", Swift and her team went toCapitol Studios in Los Angeles to recordstring orchestration.[16][37]
After recording finished, Justin Niebankmixed the album on Pro Tools at Blackbird Studio. Within three weeks, Niebank finished mixing 17 tracks including 14 on the standard edition and three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition.[36][38] Because Swift wantedSpeak Now to be a direct communication with her audience, Niebank infusedmonoauralreverberation inspired by1950s and1960s music in the mix to evoke a "vintage" and "retro" vibe that, according to Niebank, brought a sense of authenticity.[36] Hank Williamsmastered the recordings.[36] Because much ofSpeak Now was recorded and mixed in Nashville, Niebank believed the album stood out among popular records that were manipulated with contemporaneous technologiesAuto-Tune andMelodyne.[36] Although Chapman was responsible for much of the production, he said Swift's co-production credit was well-deserved: "We were really a team, very collaborative."[36][39]
Speak Now features acountry pop sound with prominent mainstream music elements, a style that had characterizedTaylor Swift andFearless, and is typified by the lead single and opening track, "Mine";[41][40][42]The Daily Telegraph's James Lachno described the sound as "country bubblegum-pop".[43] The songs' arrangements are similar to those in Swift's first two albums, but the instruments' textures are more dense and evoke strong pop androck influences.[44] According to themusicologist James E. Perone, the rock textures ofSpeak Now are derived from 1970s and 1980s styles such asnew wave rock andarena rock.[45] There were disagreements over the album's genre classification,[46] with critics categorizing it ascountry rock,[42]pop rock,[47] andpower pop.[48] The music criticAnn Powers, in a review for theLos Angeles Times, described the album's sound as an extension of country-pop towardsalternative rock and bubblegum pop, with its tracks incorporating styles from "lush strings ofCéline-stylekitsch-pop to Americana banjo tocountrypolitan electric guitar".[19]
Thesong structures feature climatic build-ups, catchy pop melodies, and memorablehooks,[49][31] characterized by chiming guitars, dynamic drums, and powerful choruses.[50] The banjo-ledbluegrass track "Mean" is the only song that critics regarded as purely country music.[9][26][51] "Sparks Fly" has an arena-rock and pop-rock production with guitars and subtle fiddles,[52][53] and "Speak Now" is an acoustic guitar-driven pop song with a1950s rock chorus.[40][54] "The Story of Us" and "Better than Revenge" are electric-guitar-drivenpop-punk songs;[55] the former contains influences of arena rock,dance-pop, andnew wave, instrumented by electric guitar riffs and subduedmandolin;[49][56][57] and the latter features soaring electric guitars and distorted vocals, evoking 1980shard rock but with more melodic accessibility.[58] The arena-rock andgoth-rock number "Haunted" incorporates a dramatic recurring string section.[29][55][59] The closing track "Long Live" is aheartland rock song featuringgirl-groupharmonies and chiming rock guitars.[29][30]
The remaining tracks ofSpeak Now areballads. "Back to December" is a gentle, orchestral, string-ladenpower ballad.[24][60] "Dear John" is a slow-burning,bluesy, country-pop song with electric guitarlicks.[9][61] The guitar ballad "Never Grow Up" incorporates an understated production that accompanies its wistful lyrics.[29][40] On "Enchanted", the acoustic guitarcrescendos after each refrain and leads up to a harmony-layeredcoda at the end.[29][31] "Innocent" and "Last Kiss" incorporate sparse instruments; the latter is a slow-tempowaltz with breathy vocals.[31][40][59] "If This Was a Movie", a bonus song on the deluxe edition and the only song not written solely by Swift,[note 4] is a fast-paced ballad with a recurring guitarriff and simple harmonies.[63]
Swift announcedSpeak Now on July 20, 2010, in alive stream onUstream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to UScountry radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[64] The single peaked at number three on the USBillboard Hot 100[65] and was certifiedtriple platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[66] It reached number six in Japan,[67] number seven in Canada,[68] and number nine in Australia.[69] On August 18, Swift released the album's cover art, which depicts Swift with curly hair and red lipsticktwirling in a deep-purple gown.[70] On September 15, she announced aTarget-exclusive deluxe edition; the deluxe edition cover features a red gown in place of the purple gown on the standard edition cover.[71] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released oneSpeak Now track each week on theiTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; "Speak Now" was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19.[72] On October 22,Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us".[72]
Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions ofSpeak Now on October 25, 2010.[71][73] The Target-exclusive deluxe edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][74] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012.[75][76] To bolster sales of the album, Swift had partnerships withStarbucks,Sony Electronics,Walmart, andJakks Pacific.[77][78] In October 2011, Swift partnered withElizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted".[78]
After "Mine", Swift released five more singles fromSpeak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[88] and March 7, 2011.[89][90] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten in Canada,[68] and "Back to December" reached number six on theBillboard Hot 100.[91] "The Story of Us" was released to USpop radio on April 19, 2011.[92] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[93] and December 5, 2011.[94] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via theiTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[95] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on theBillboard Hot 100 and peaked atop theHot Country Songs chart.[96][97] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.[98][99]
On November 23, 2010, Swift announced theSpeak Now World Tour, which started in Singapore on February 9, 2011. The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started inOmaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[100] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[101] By April 2011, Swift had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[102] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[103] On August 10, 2011, Swift released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[104] She released the albumSpeak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[105] In December 2011, Swift announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012.[106] Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries,[note 5] and grossed $123.7 million.[107]
BeforeSpeak Now's release, Big Machine shipped two million copies of the album to stores in the United States.[27] In the week ending November 13, 2010, the album debuted at number one on theBillboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 1,047,000 copies.[108] It marked the highest single-week tally for a female country artist and became the first album sinceLil Wayne'sTha Carter III (2008) to sell over one million copies in its first week of release.[109] Media publications includingBillboard,[108]MTV,[77] andThe New York Times[87] published articles highlightingSpeak Now's strong sales in the context of decliningrecord sales brought about by the emergence ofmusic download platforms. According toThe New York Times, although the music industry in 2010 saw album sales "[plunging] by more than 50 percent in the last decade", the album proved Swift "has transcended the limitations of genre and become a pop megastar".[87] TheGuinness World Records in 2010 recognizedSpeak Now as the fastest-selling album in the United States by a female country artist.[110]
InSpeak Now's first charting week, 11 of the standard edition's 14 tracks charted on theBillboard Hot 100, making Swift the first female artist to have 11 songs on the Hot 100 at the same time.[111] After the digital release of the deluxe edition tracks in November 2011, "If This Was a Movie" charted at number 10 on the Hot 100, making Swift the first artist to have eight songs debut in the top 10.[112][note 6] With this achievement,Speak Now had four songs peaking in the top 10 of theBillboard Hot 100—"Mine", "Back to December", "Speak Now", and "If This Was a Movie".[114] The album spent six non-consecutive weeks atop theBillboard 200.[115]Speak Now was the third-best-selling album of 2010 in the United States with sales of 2.96 million copies.[116] By January 2024, it had sold 4.817 million copies in the United States.[117] The RIAAcertified the albumsix-times platinum, which denotes six millionalbum-equivalent units based on sales, song downloads, andstreaming.[118]
Speak Now was a chart success in the wider English-speaking world: it peaked atop the albums charts of Australia,[119] Canada,[120] and New Zealand,[121] and peaked at number six in Ireland[122] and the United Kingdom.[123] The album was certified triple-platinum in Australia,[124] Canada,[125] and New Zealand.[126] Upon conclusion of the Asian leg of the Speak Now World Tour by February 2011, the album sold 400,000 copies in the region and received platinum sales certifications in Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines.[127] In Europe, it charted at number four in Norway and number ten in Spain.[128][129] After Swift embarked onthe Eras Tour (2023–2024),Speak Now resurged in popularity in the United Kingdom: it re-entered the top 40 (at number 23) on thealbums chart for the week ending May 18, 2023, which was its first top-40 appearance since November 2010.[130]
Initial reviews ofSpeak Now were generally positive.[101] On the review aggregator siteMetacritic, which assigns anormalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album has an average score of 77 that was based on 20 reviews.[132] AnyDecentMusic? compiled 10 reviews and gave it an average score of 6.9 out of 10.[131]
Most reviews praised Swift's songwriting for showcasing a mature perspective on love and relationships.[101] Reviews fromAllMusic,[41]Entertainment Weekly,[46]The Guardian,[134] theLos Angeles Times,[19] andRolling Stone[30] complimented the songs for portraying emotions with engaging narratives and vivid details. In AllMusic's review,Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "[Swift] writes from the perspective of the moment yet has the skill of a songwriter beyond her years."[41]American Songwriter approved of Swift's self-penned material and artistic control.[26] In his consumer guide,Robert Christgau commented that although the album was too long and the romantic themes did not interest him, the songs were fascinating because of an "effort that bears a remarkable resemblance to care—that is, to caring in the best, broadest, and most emotional sense".[135]
The album's dramatic themes of heartbreak and vengeance received mixed reviews.Now said although it included some memorable tracks,Speak Now was blemished by celebrity, rage, and grievances.[48]Slant Magazine lauded Swift's melodic songwriting for offering radio-friendly pop hooks but criticized the lyrics of "Dear John", "Mean", "Innocent", and "Better than Revenge" as shallow and shortsighted.[31] Meanwhile,Spin opined that the "bubblier" tracks like "Sparks Fly" and "Long Live" were forgettable, while the songs about vengeance like "Mean" and "Better than Revenge" were memorable because they explored "something nervy and intense when she goes nasty".[136] In congruence,Steven Hyden fromThe A.V. Club wrote of those tracks: "Swift's niftiest trick is being at her most likeable when she's indulging in such overt nastiness."[133]Entertainment Weekly agreed, deeming those tracks inevitable for Swift's artistic evolution.[46]The Village Voice said Swift's songwriting was "not confessional, but dramatic" and found it more nuanced and mature compared to that ofFearless.[56]
Other reviews focused onSpeak Now's production. Reviews published inPaste[49] andSlant Magazine[31] called it a catchy album with radio-friendly pop tunes; the former was impressed by the crossover appeal but deemed the overall production dull.The Village Voice took issue with Swift's vocals as weak and strained.[56] BBC Music found the album's track list too long but called it overall a "sparky and affecting record".[47]Now approved of Swift's experimentation with styles other than country but considered it "too safe" and said the album was tarnished by "slickly produced power pop and a sugary sameness [that is] indiscernible from any number of today's radio-oriented artists".[48] Ann Powers appreciatedSpeak Now's soft, introspective tracks for personalizing pop music.[19]Jon Caramanica ofThe New York Times lauded the experimentation with genres such as blues and pop punk, and he calledSpeak Now a bold step for Swift.[55]
On year-end lists of the best albums of 2010,Speak Now was ranked 12th byAmerican Songwriter and 13th byRolling Stone.[137][138]The New York Times' Jon Caramanica ranked the album number two (behindRick Ross'sTeflon Don) in his 2010 year-end list.[139] The album appeared on lists of the best country albums of 2010;PopMatters ranked it fifth[140] andThe Boot ranked it second.[141] In 2012,Speak Now appeared at number 45 onRolling Stone's list of "The 50 Greatest Female Albums of All Time";Rob Sheffield commented: "She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click."[142]
In 2019,Billboard listedSpeak Now in 51st place on its list of the best albums of the 2010s[143] and second on its list of best country albums of the same decade.[144] The album also ranked 37th onSpin's 2010s decade-end list[145] and 71st on that ofCleveland.com;[146] andTaste of Country named it the fourth-best country album of the 2010s.[147]Rolling Stone placed it at number 196 on their 2025 list of "The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far", deeming it the "peak of her Nashville era".[148]
Swift has said that she wroteSpeak Now by herself as a reaction to critics' doubts about her songwriting ability.[158] While reviews had emphasized the importance of co-writers on her past albums,Speak Now granted Swift the definite credentials to assert authorship over her music and career.[159] Some academics have upheld how the album solidified her artistry with its nuanced observations, confessional and confrontational songs about grappling with young adulthood and fame;[160] many retrospective reviews have considered it a groundwork to her consistent songcraft of later albums.[note 7] Its commercial success contributed to her fame as a pop star transcending her self-identity as a country-music artist.[164][165]Pitchfork's Sam Sodomsky, reviewing the album in 2019, contended that her country-music identity served as an indicator of her autobiographical songwriting rather than musical style.[29]
Several critics reflected onSpeak Now in the context of Swift's celebrity. Many of its songs were inspired by experiences that were routinely documented in the press, such as short-lived romantic relationships and the 2009 MTV Awards incident. This set a precedent to not only the confessional songwriting on Swift's later albums, but also the media speculation on the subjects behind her lyrics.[note 8]Maura Johnston opined that these songs laid the groundwork to her 2017 albumReputation, which focused on her image and confrontation against critics.[166] According to the gender studies professor Adriane Brown, the songs about idealized romance and her innocent, "good-girl" image made her stand out in a contemporary pool of sexualized female pop artists. Brown commented that Swift's unwillingness to openly discuss sex and tendency to criticize females who "whore themselves out", as in the lyrics of "Better than Revenge", was problematic.[169]
In November 2020, after adispute over the ownership of themasters to her back catalog, Swift beganre-recording her first six studio albums.[170] On May 5, 2023, at the first Eras Tour show in Nashville, Swift announced the re-recorded version ofSpeak Now—Speak Now (Taylor's Version), and its release date on July 7.[171]Speak Now (Taylor's Version) consists of re-recordings of all fourteen songs from the standard edition, the deluxe tracks "Ours" and "Superman",[note 9] and six previously unreleased "From the Vault" songs.[173] AfterSpeak Now (Taylor's Version) was released, the original album reached new peaks in Switzerland (number one),[174] Austria (number one),[175] Germany (number two),[176] and it was certified gold in the latter two countries.[177][178] The ownership of the original album's master recording, alongside her other five albums released under Big Machine, was acquired by Swift on May 30, 2025.[179]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
^In a 2010 interview withGlamour, when the interviewer asked, "And you hear artists say things like, 'When I turned 21, the record label made me over into a sexualized creature'. Could you see yourself going in that direction?", Swift responded, "I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun".[18]
^In scholar Adriane Brown's view, Swift's past albums are also about romantic, nonsexual relationships, which was congruent with her public image and identity as a white, feminine, innocent, middle-class American girl.[20]
^Borchetta reportedly said to Swift; "Taylor, this record isn't about fairy tales and high school anymore. That's not where you're at."[27]
^Although "If This Was a Movie" (written by Swift andMartin Johnson) is on the deluxe edition ofSpeak Now, the 14-track standard edition was solely written by Swift, and thus the album is agreed upon by the press as self-penned by Swift.[9][17][62]
^United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and England.[107]
^The other seven songs that debuted in the top 10 of theBillboard Hot 100 are "Change" (2008), "Fearless" (2008), "Jump Then Fall" (2009), "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), "Mine" (2010), "Speak Now" (2010), and "Back To December" (2010).[113]
^The re-recorded version of "If This Was a Movie" was released independently.[172]
^The chart positions listed below coincided with the release of the 2023 re-recordingSpeak Now (Taylor's Version). In Austria, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland, the chart performance of the originalSpeak Now was combined with that ofSpeak Now (Taylor's Version).
^Compiled byBillboard for albums 1963–2017[232][233]
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