“Taylor Swift Releases Vinyl 'Tortured Poets Anthology', Eras Tour Book”

It's looking very Swift-mas: Taylor Swift has some big releases on the way for the holiday season – a first CD/vinyl edition of “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology” and a book commemorating the Eras tour. The products would be available exclusively at Target on Black Friday, the singer announced Tuesday.

The expanded “Anthology” version of their latest album will finally arrive in both physical formats, with four acoustic bonus tracks added to the 31-song collection, previously only available as a digital release, making it now 35 tracks in total. The vinyl release includes four marbled, translucent LPs, accompanied by a 12″ x 12″ poster. The four-LP set will retail for $59.99 and the CD edition will retail for $17.99.

Meanwhile, “Taylor Swift | “The Eras Tour Book” is a 256-page volume intended to contain more than 500 images, with photos of performances from each segment of the more than three-hour show, rehearsals and behind-the-scenes images of instruments, costumes, set pieces and designer sketches, as well as Swift personal reflections and notes. Retail price is $39.99.

The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology was previously released for digital download and streaming just two hours after the standard edition in April, but LPs and CDs were only available for the standard 16-track version until that point.

Swift said in a social media message that information on an international release of the products would be coming soon.

With the book, CD and vinyl releasing in Target's North American stores on November 29, the products will be available for online purchase a day later on the retailer's webstore and app.

The four acoustic tracks that will be added to the “Anthology” releases were not included in the announcement. Swift has already released a series of limited-edition, digital-only acoustic versions of the standard Tortured Poets album.

The release of the “Anthology” version of “Tortured Poets” in physical formats is sure to have a big impact on the charts. To date, the release (standard and deluxe editions combined) has spent 15 weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, a personal best for Swift and something only a handful of artists in Billboard history have achieved. It will almost certainly reclaim the top spot at least a week after Anthology's release on CD and vinyl, and perhaps longer, unless unexpectedly strong competition gets a surprise release in the same time frame.

Swift will soon return to North American stages for the final leg of her nearly two-year Eras Tour, the most commercially successful in history. She's playing again for nine dates in the U.S., starting with a three-night run in Miami this weekend, then playing nine shows in Canada, concluding in Vancouver December 6-8.