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Swift, aiming to experiment with as many styles as she could, decided her fourth studio album would not follow one coherent genre. [11] To this end, she recruited musicians whose works she admired, hoping to learn from them. [12] Although Swift wanted to experiment with various musical styles, she prioritized the lyrics over the production and strove to capture her emotions, as she had done on her previous songs. Songwriting would start by identifying an emotion with a song, and production would follow. [13] On songs Swift co-wrote, she first presented her co-writers with the feelings she had been going through, played a rough demo on her guitar, and asked for their ideas on ways to better convey the story. [9] Each song's production corresponded to the emotion it portrayed, resulting in an eclectic mix of styles. [11] Stereogum's Top 50 Albums Of 2012". Stereogum. December 5, 2012. Archived from the original on February 7, 2020 . Retrieved November 20, 2019. This is the 10th time Taylor Swift topped the chart, being only the second woman to conquer this number, following Barbra Streisand. Also, this was the 4th album of hers to top the chart within the period of 68 weeks, making Taylor the solo artist to fastest accumulate that. This record was previously held by Elton John. Jaaroverzichten 2013". Ultratop. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020 . Retrieved November 8, 2020.

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Swift's previous studio albums Fearless and Speak Now respectively spent 11 weeks in 2008–09 and six weeks in 2010–11). [102] a b c d e Gallo, Phil (October 19, 2012). "Taylor Swift Q&A: The Risks of ' Red ' and The Joys of Being 22". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Red received accolades in terms of both critical and popular recognition. Mainstream publications featuring Red on their lists of the best albums of 2012 included Billboard, [128] The Daily Beast, [129] The Guardian, [130] Idolator, [131] MTV News, [132] Newsday, [133] PopMatters, [134] Rolling Stone, [135] Spin, [136] and Stereogum. [137] Critic Jon Caramanica ranked the album second on his list of 2012's best albums for The New York Times. [138] Red was placed at number 17 on the 2012 Pazz & Jop, an annual mass critics' poll conducted by The Village Voice. [139] Spin proclaimed Red one of 2012's best country albums. [140]Top 40/Mainstream > Future Releases". All Access. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013 . Retrieved December 5, 2012. Taylor Swift's re-recorded version of ' Red ' is arriving a week earlier than planned". NME. September 30, 2021. Archived from the original on February 24, 2022 . Retrieved October 3, 2021. Farley, Christopher John (October 31, 2012). "The Platinum Poetry of Taylor Swift". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021 . Retrieved November 22, 2021. In the US, Red debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1,208,000 copies, surpassing Garth Brooks's Double Live (1998) as the fastest-selling country album. [98] [99] With Speak Now and Red, Swift was recognized in the Guinness World Records as the "First Solo Female with Two Million-Selling Weeks on the U.S. Albums Chart". [100] Red spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, [101] and made Swift the first female artist, and the second after the Beatles, to have three consecutive studio albums each spend six or more weeks atop the chart. [note 2] It was the third consecutive time—after Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010)—that Swift had a number-one album during the last week before Christmas, traditionally the most competitive week of the year. [103] On Billboard 's Top Country Albums chart, it spent 16 weeks at number one, and was the year-end number-one album of both 2012 and 2013. [104] Surpassing 3.11million copies after two months of sales, Red was the second-highest-selling album of 2012. [105] As of October 2020, its US sales stood at 4.49million copies. [106] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album seven-times Platinum for surpassing seven million album-equivalent units. [107] DeVille, Chris (December 13, 2019). "Stream The Taylor Swift Tribute Album ReRed Feat. Wild Pink, Adult Mom, Chris Farren, Future Teens, & More". Stereogum. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021 . Retrieved May 13, 2021.

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