Taylor Swift announces new album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’|Ronald Woan|CC BY-NC 2.0

Taylor Swift gave a pleasant surprise to fans on Monday, revealing at 12:12 a.m. ET that her 12th studio album is named “The Life of a Showgirl.”

She announced the project on her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast. The album release date wasn’t announced.

Soon after, Spotify billboards appeared in New York and Nashville linking to a playlist of Swift tracks.

It marks Swift’s first album since The Tortured Poets Department and its surprise double edition, The Anthology, in April 2024.