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Lover (Live from Paris) (2020)

Where the lyrics of Lover (Live from Paris) take you, and where it was really made.

Swift's only concert in support of Lover became a live album: a one-night Paris show that was later pressed onto heart-shaped vinyl and became a collector's item.

Key places

City of Lover at the Olympia, Paris (2019)

Live show Olympia (Paris) — Swift held the one-off concert City of Lover at the Olympia theater in Paris on 9 September 2019. It was held to celebrate the release of Lover and became the source of this live album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Lover (Live from Paris): fourth live album by Taylor Swift
• Consists of live renditions of songs performed at the one-off concert City of Lover in Paris, 9 September 2019
• Concert held at the Olympia theater in Paris to celebrate the release of the album Lover
• Only concert Swift held to support Lover
• Tracks released individually to streaming services on 19 May 2020
• Compiled into an album first released as a Valentine's Day limited-edition vinyl on 14 February 2023, through Republic Records
• Physical album reissued on 7 January 2025
• Topped the UK Albums Chart after the 2025 reissue

Background

• Lover, Swift's seventh studio album, released 23 August 2019 through Republic Records
• City of Lover held on 9 September 2019 at the Olympia theater in Paris as a one-off concert
• 17 May 2020: concert aired as a one-hour ABC special titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover
• Special later available for on-demand streaming on Hulu and Disney+
• TV special featured eight songs from Lover; each was released on digital music platforms except The Man, which had been streaming since 18 February 2020
• 13 February 2023: Swift announced a limited-edition set of two vinyl records
• Each package contained two heart-shaped vinyls, one pink and one blue
• Sold exclusively through Swift's online store
• Billboard reported that 13,000 copies were available for purchase in the United States
• 7 January 2025: reissued as a 72-hour limited edition with new pressings of the two heart-shaped vinyls; sold out in less than an hour

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Tracklist

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Artist

Early life

• Born December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania.
• Named after singer-songwriter James Taylor.
• Moved to Nashville area at 14 to pursue a country music career.
• Signed with Big Machine Records in 2005.

Career

• Debut album Taylor Swift (2006) peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200.
• Fearless (2008) spent eleven weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and was the best-selling album of 2009 in the US.
• Shifted from country to pop with 1989 (2014), which spent eleven weeks at number one.
• Released Folklore and Evermore (2020), indie folk albums that debuted at number one.
• Re-recorded her first six albums after a dispute over her master recordings.
• The Eras Tour (2023–2024) became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.
• Holds 14 Grammy Awards, including a record four Album of the Year wins.
• Named Time Person of the Year in 2023.

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Reception

At release

• Debuted on record charts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
• Topped the US Billboard Vinyl Albums chart, Swift's ninth number-one on that chart
• Publications described it as a rare, collectable album
• Variety called it Swift's rarest vinyl, which fans treated as a fetish item
• ComingSoon.net described it as a highly sought-after collector's item
• ClutchPoints said it may be the rarest entry in Swift's discography to get on vinyl

Reappraisal

• After the 2025 vinyl reissue and digital release, re-entered the Billboard 200 at number two, behind Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos
• Topped the UK Albums Chart, Swift's 13th number-one album in the United Kingdom
• Peaked at number two on the Irish Albums Chart

Records

• Chart week of 4 March 2023: best-selling vinyl album in the United States
• Top Album Sales chart at number five with 13,000 copies sold; debuted at number 58 on the Billboard 200
• Swift became the first artist to place at least 10 albums on the Billboard 200 at once since Prince in 2016
• 2025 Billboard 200 re-entry: 202,500 album-equivalent units, 161,000 of them vinyl
• Largest vinyl sales week for a live album since Luminate began tracking in 1991
• Top Album Sales chart number one, Swift's 15th
• Sold 206,000 pure copies in the United States in the first half of 2025

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Original vinyls were regularly sold on eBay for over US$1,000, according to Variety.
• The 2025 reissue was a 72-hour limited edition that sold out in less than an hour.
• The concert aired as a one-hour ABC special on 17 May 2020 before reaching Hulu and Disney+.
• The vinyl set came in two heart-shaped records, one pink and one blue, sold only through Swift's online store.
• The 2023 vinyl was announced on 13 February 2023, a day before its Valentine's Day release.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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