If you pay close attention, you can hear it: there’s a new lushness in the opening banjo twangs, and an extra beat when she sings the lyric “Just say yes.” But the difference between the 2008 version ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Life of a Showgirl is tied as Taylor Swift's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" has spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It's her second-longest reign atop the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl becomes her second album to ...

Taylor Swift is on top of the world. She is a self-made billionaire coming off the Eras Tour — the highest grossing concert tour of all time, according to a New York Times article — and is newly ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. No one needs another take on Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl. We live in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Swift has released 12 distinct albums throughout her career (and rerecorded four of them). BI's resident Swift expert ...

No one would have expected Taylor Swift‘s “The Life of a Showgirl” to lose its grip on the album chart in week 2, and it indeed held on at the top of the Billboard 200, with 338,000 equivalent album ...