Midnights

Midnights is the tenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 21, 2022, through Republic Records. A concept album about nocturnal ruminations, it contains confessional songs that explore regret, self-criticism, fantasies, heartbreak, and infatuation. The lyrical details allude to Swift's personal life and fame. Swift produced the album's standard edition with Jack Antonoff, while Sounwave, Jahaan Sweet, and Keanu Beats each co-produced two tracks. Midnights is a synth-pop, electropop, bedroom pop, and dream pop album with elements of electronica, hip-hop, and R&B. Its minimalist, electronic production is characterized by analog synthesizers, sparse drum machine beats, and digitally manipulated vocals. Antonoff and Aaron Dessner co-produced an extended 3am Edition that was surprise-released three hours after the standard edition. Swift announced Midnights at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards and promoted it extensively through social media. Midnights topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In the United States, it became Swift's fifth album to debut atop the Billboard 200 with over one million first-week copies and the best-selling album of 2022. Its songs made Swift the first artist to monopolize the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100. Midnights spawned four singles: the US chart-topper "Anti-Hero" and top-five entries "Snow on the Beach", "Lavender Haze", and "Karma". Music critics regarded Midnights as an amalgamation of Swift's earlier albums and praised its autobiographical lyrics as engaging and refined. Most reviews complimented the production as cohesive and tasteful, although some deemed it conventional. Numerous publications featured the album on their rankings of the best albums of 2022. At the 2024 Grammy Awards, Midnights made Swift the first artist to win Album of the Year four times and also won Best Pop Vocal Album. To support Midnights along with her other albums,...