Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s 1989 spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) celebrates two full years on ...

Taylor Swift is up to her old Midnights tricks. Her 10th studio album celebrated its one-year anniversary last weekend, and if you look at 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and squint really hard, you can see ...

The music video for “Karma,” which was released in May 2023, also provided a 1989 hint. At the time of its premiere, the date for Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) had already been announced, so there was ...

On Mar. 24, 1989, nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil gushed out of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker off the coast of Alaska. Take a look back at what was the largest oil spill in U.S. history at the ...

Taylor Swift released "1989 (Taylor's Version)" on October 27. The original album broke records and became a flash point of cultural curiosity when it came out in 2014. We rounded up 13 interesting ...

Taylor Swift has dropped yet another rerecorded album with previously unheard songs, and as is tradition, Swifties quickly began parsing the lyrics for clues. “I was born in 1989, reinvented for the ...

An account of the 1989 strike of the highly democratic and self-managed Australian Federation of Air Pilots union, which was the biggest industrial struggle of the period. John Pilger in his book ...

Taylor Swift is just a few hours away from dropping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) as her next rerecording. For those who are still looking for what songs are going to be on this version of her album, she is ...