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Lover (Live from Paris)
Photo of Swift closing her eyes, dressed in black, with a mic next to her
Limited-time download album cover
Live album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedFebruary 14, 2023 (2023-02-14)
RecordedSeptember 9, 2019
VenueOlympia, Paris, France
Length30:31
LabelRepublic
ProducerTaylor Swift
Taylor Swift chronology
Midnights
(2022) 		Lover (Live from Paris)
(2023) 		Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
(2023)

Lover (Live from Paris) is the fourth live album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, consisting of live renditions of songs that she performed at the one-off City of Lover concert in Paris on September 9, 2019. The tracks had been released individually to streaming services on May 19, 2020, by Republic Records, and they were compiled into Lover (Live from Paris), first released as a Valentine's Day limited-edition vinyl album on February 14, 2023.

Lover (Live from Paris) debuted on record charts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, topping the US Billboard Vinyl Albums chart. It was reissued on January 7, and released for limited-time download on January 16, 2025. The album then topped the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number two on the Irish Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 chart. Lover (Live from Paris) went one to become a collectable among Swift's fans.

Background and release

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Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, was released on August 23, 2019, via Republic Records.[1][2] To celebrate the album's release, she held the one-off concert City of Lover at the Olympia theater in Paris, France, on September 9, 2019.[3] It would become Swift's only concert to support Lover.[3]

On May 17, 2020, the concert was aired as a one-hour special, titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, on ABC, and was later made available for on-demand streaming on Hulu and Disney+.[4][5] The TV special featured eight songs from Lover[6] and each of them were released on digital music and streaming platforms,[7] except "The Man", which had been previously available for streaming since February 18, 2020.[8]

On February 13, 2023, Lover (Live from Paris) was announced by Swift's official fan account as a limited-edition vinyl album for release on Valentine's Day via Republic Records.[9] Each package contains two heart-shaped LPs—one pink and the other blue—and was made available for purchase on Swift's online store exclusively.[10] Billboard reported that a total of 13,000 copies of the album were available for purchase in the US.[11]

The album was reissued on January 7, 2025, on Swift's online store as a 72-hour limited edition. The re-release also contained two heart-shaped vinyl LPs, but both of them pink-colored with yellow and blue marbling, respectively. It sold out within a few hours of release.[12] On January 16, 2025, the standard edition and three deluxe editions of the album were made available for digital download through Swift's online store for six hours. The three deluxe editions contained one live bonus track of a song from Lover performed during the Eras Tour (2023–2024): "False God", "I Think He Knows", or "Paper Rings".[13]

Reception

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Lover (Live from Paris) was the best-selling vinyl album in the United States for the chart week dated March 4, 2023. It topped the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart as Swift's ninth number-one album on the chart,[14] landed at number five on the Top Album Sales chart by selling 13,000 copies,[11] and debuted at number 58 on the overall Billboard 200.[15] Alongside the live album's entry on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 4, 2023, Swift charted nine other albums,[note 1] becoming the first artist in history to place at least 10 albums on the Billboard 200 simultaneously since Prince in 2016; Swift is the first living soloist to chart 10 albums in a single week since 1963.[11]

Following its vinyl reissue and digital release in 2025, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number two, behind Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos, with 202,500 album-equivalent units, all from album sales, of which 161,000 were vinyl sales.[13] It marks the largest vinyl sales week for a live album since Luminate started tracking in 1991, and Swift's 18th top-ten album on the chart.[13] It also topped the Top Album Sales chart as Swift's 15th number-one album, making her surpass Jay-Z as the artist with the most number-one albums on that chart.[16]

Publications have described Lover (Live from Paris) as a rare, collectible album. Variety dubbed it as Swift's "rarest vinyl", treated by fans as "fetish item". The outlet reported that the album's original LPs were regularly sold over on eBay for US$1,000.[17] ComingSoon.net described it as a "highly sought-after collector's item".[18] ClutchPoints said "it may be the rarest entry in her discography to get on vinyl."[19]

Track listing

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All tracks are produced by Taylor Swift and subtitled "(Live from Paris)".[9]

Side A
  1. "Me!" (Taylor Swift, Joel Little, Brendon Urie) – 3:33
  2. "The Archer" (Swift, Jack Antonoff) – 3:30
Side B
  2. "Death by a Thousand Cuts" (Swift, Antonoff) – 3:19
  3. "Cornelia Street" (Swift) – 4:56
Side C
  2. "The Man" (Swift, Little) – 3:39
  3. "Daylight" (Swift) – 4:22
Side D
  2. "You Need to Calm Down" (Swift, Little) – 3:23
  3. "Lover" (Swift) – 3:49

Personnel

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  • Taylor Swift – vocals, production, songwriting, piano, guitar
  • Max Bernstein – guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard
  • Mike Meadows – acoustic guitar, keyboard
  • Paul Sidoti – guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Amos Heller – bass, keyboard
  • Eliotte Woodford – background vocals
  • Jeslyn Gorman – background vocals
  • Kamilah Marshall – background vocals
  • Melanie Nyema – background vocals
  • Matt Billingslea – drums
  • David Cook – keyboard
  • Jack Antonoff – songwriting
  • Joel Little – songwriting
  • Brendon Urie – songwriting
  • Christopher Rowe – mastering, mixing, engineering

Charts

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2023 chart performance for Lover (Live from Paris)
Chart (2023) Peak
position
Australian Vinyl Albums (ARIA)[20] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC)[21] 9
UK Albums (OCC)[22] 90
US Billboard 200[15] 58
2025 chart performance for Lover (Live from Paris)
Chart (2025) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[23] 14
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[24] 39
Irish Albums (OCC)[25] 2
Scottish Albums (OCC)[26] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[27] 1
US Billboard 200[13] 2

Release history

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Release dates and formats for Lover (Live from Paris)
Release date Format(s) Label Ref.
February 14, 2023 Vinyl LP Republic [9]
January 7, 2025 Vinyl LP (reissue) [28]
January 16, 2025 Digital download (Bonus editions) [13]

Notes

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  1. ^ Midnights (2022) – number three, Folklore (2020) – number 28, Lover (2019) – number 41, 1989 (2014) – number 50, Red (Taylor's Version) (2021) – number 56, Reputation (2017) – number 100, Evermore (2020) – number 103, Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021) – number 172 and Speak Now (2010) – number 192.

References

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  8. ^ "Taylor Swift Releases 'The Man – Live from Paris' Song and Video... and it's Glorious: Stream It Now". Billboard. February 18, 2020. Archived from the original on May 5, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
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  10. ^ Skinner, Tom (February 15, 2023). "Taylor Swift announces heart-shaped Lover (Live From Paris) vinyl for Valentine's Day". NME. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
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