According to the outlet, Swift struggled to rank her top five songs but unhesitatingly named "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" as her primary choice. This 10-minute track from "Red (Taylor's Version)" famously chronicles her split with Jake Gyllenhaal.

For The Win notes Swift also praised her recent album, "The Life of a Showgirl", and cited mirrorball as another beloved track.

Her fondness for "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" previously led her to direct a short film for the song. The production, starring Dylan O'Brien and Stranger Things actress Sadie Sink, has accumulated over 109 million views.

While the full list remains pending, For The Win pivots to news that Swift hosted a New York City screening of her upcoming docuseries, "The End of an Era".

The artist celebrated the "The End of an Era" preview alongside her family, band, and dancers, the publication states.

The gathering occurred at the Walt Disney Company's 7 Hudson Square Theatre, with For The Win confirming the attendance of backing vocalists and relatives. This six-episode limited series investigates the creation of "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour." Fans will witness the conceptual development and the logistical operations of the historic tour.

For The Win highlights appearances by Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch, Gracie Abrams, and Sabrina Carpenter, plus the touring crew. "The End of an Era" premieres December 12 on Disney+, releasing two chapters each week.

Launching simultaneously is the concert film "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show," captured in Vancouver. The report confirms it includes the entire "THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT" segment.

Finally, For The Win adds that ABC will air the first installment of "The End of an Era" and a 60-minute presentation on "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour"

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A total of 738 delegates voted in favor of changing the contest's voting rules and supporting a waiver on the voting issue. Another 264 delegates opposed the new rules and demanded a formal, separate vote on Israel's participation. One hundred twenty delegates abstained.

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The 2025 edition introduces several fresh tools, including Listening Age – which uses music preferences to estimate the user's age (a friendly suggestion: enjoying Springsteen may result in a 10-year addition) – and Clubs, which sorts listeners into categories based on their genre tastes, according to USA TODAY.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 top artists, songs and albums revealed

During a media presentation on December 2, the team responsible for creating Spotify Wrapped expressed optimism that subscribers would be pleased with the 2025 version, especially after receiving feedback in 2024 regarding the application of AI in developing the experience. Dustee Jenkins, Spotify's chief public affairs officer, responded positively to the critique, affirming that the comments "reminded us just how much this experience means to listeners." She stated that the current year's aesthetic is centered on traditional music sharing, embracing "the world of mixtape culture." Spotify executives, while demonstrating the new additions, emphasized that only one element is powered by AI, with the remainder of the report being meticulously developed for months by teams situated globally, USA TODAY detailed.

Finding your Wrapped stats

Are you trying to find your personalized metrics? Ensure your application is updated initially. Next, launch Spotify, and a Wrapped banner should appear that you can select to view your data.

Wrapped tracking duration

The data for Spotify Wrapped is calculated from your listening history spanning January 1 to around the middle of November.

New additions: Listening age, clubs, and more in 2025

If a significant part of your Wrapped was overlooked, relax! This year, subscribers can reduce the speed of their report and conveniently go back to previous sections. Listening age, which is calculated based on the release dates of the songs you listened to, is one of the new elements introduced this year, USA TODAY noted. The second novelty is Clubs, which places you into one of six distinct groups: Soft Hearts, Serotonin, Cosmic Stereo, Full Charge, Grit Collective or Cloud State Society. Once your musical tastes determine your category, you will also be informed of your role within that club and the specific artist that was the reason for your placement.

In the portion of the report dedicated to artists, listeners will face a brief challenge to identify the performer or band they listened to most. Afterward, preceding the ultimate announcement, an "artist sprint" feature, which uses actual month-by-month listening information, illustrates a user's leading contenders racing to the finish line before the victor is determined, according to the report.

Additionally, as with the previous year, users will receive a brief video message from a top artist and will be able to see their placement on the fan leaderboard. The much-requested Top Albums feature has been added, and a listener archive feature will highlight key occurrences in a user's experience, such as when they most often discovered or shared music. The archive is the sole function relying on AI, Spotify indicated.

The shared experience: Spotify wrapped party

Possibly the most discussed new component in this year's Wrapped is a feature that transforms the event from "a solo experience," into "a multiplayer celebration," stated Payman Kassaie, the director of brand and creative for Spotify, as per USA TODAY. Party, an interactive live feature, is similar to the start of the pandemic, when a like-named function from Netflix allowed people to stream shows together and engage in real-time discussion. Spotify's iteration lets users invite up to nine friends to contrast their listening statistics. The procedure will reveal who in the collective streamed the most music, who had the rarest song play, or who earned the title of "dinner table explainer" (the individual who listened to the greatest quantity of political podcasts).

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The touring production features selections from Chayanne's newest album combined with signature recordings spanning his 40-year career – including "Un siglo sin ti," "Y tú te vas," "Provócame," and "Atado a tu amor" – alongside recent releases "Bailando bachata," "Como tú y yo," and "Te amo y punto," La Viola noted. His global sales exceeding 50 million albums position him among artists with most Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart-toppers across four decades. Classic tracks "Torero" and "Dejaría Todo" will appear in performance repertoire alongside contemporary material.

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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the vocalist whose work with the Grateful Dead throughout the 1970s and backup contributions to 1960s classics made her a music legend, died at 78. The singer passed away Sunday, Nov. 2, at a Nashville hospice facility following a "lengthy struggle with cancer," Rolling Stone reported, citing representative Dennis McNally's statement. "She was a sweet and warmly beautiful spirit, and all those who knew her are united in loss. The family requests privacy at this time of grieving," the statement said, concluding with Dead lyricist Robert Hunter's words: "May the four winds blow her safely home."

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The cancellations happened during the ADE music festival, one of the world's largest electronic music events, after a video from a "We Will Dance Again" party held at the venue earlier this year surfaced online. Following the controversy, club management announced that, for now, no more events "that could be interpreted as political" will be hosted at the venue.

The club owner said financial losses from the cancellations total approximately 100,000 euros ($106,000), adding that partygoers are the main victims. The owner said the published video "was edited in a biased manner and damaged the venue's reputation."

Event organizers for "We Will Dance Again" criticized the decision, calling it "surrender to threats." The organizers said, "A small group of people uses pressure and threats to dictate what's permitted and what's forbidden, and this is very disturbing." The organizers added that this represents a chilling recreation of patterns of Jewish exclusion from public spaces during dark periods in history. "First, they banned sitting on a bench, then they didn't allow entry to schools. These are things that happened to our parents and grandparents, and now we're seeing similar things happen again," the organizers said.

Belgian parliament member Sam van Rooy also addressed the incidents and warned, "If the cowardly policies continue, Amsterdam will eventually become Judenrein" – cleansed of Jews.

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The song, titled Actually Romantic, is centered on a fellow, unnamed pop star, causing social media to explode with theories that it serves as a diss track aimed at Charli XCX, BBC News reports. During a cinema screening that accompanied the new album, Swift stated the track is "a love letter to someone who hates you," BBC News noted. The 35-year-old pop star refrained from naming the song's subject, but she did mockingly express her gratitude for their attention, saying, "It's flattering."

"Actually Romantic" holds the seventh spot on Swift's highly anticipated new album, The Life of A Showgirl. Within the lyrics, she refers to another singer who refers to Swift as a "boring Barbie" and composes music expressing intense dislike for her. On social media, fans have become convinced this track is a reaction to Charli XCX's song, Sympathy is a Knife, from her Brat album, a track the 33-year-old allegedly wrote regarding Swift, BBC News reported.

Charli XCX's album Brat, which was released in June 2024, earned her a second number 1 album in the UK, according to Getty Images. In that composition, Charli sings about experiencing insecurity regarding a woman who appears backstage at her then-boyfriend's concert. Charli XCX sings, "Don't know if it's real or if I'm spiralling. One voice tells me that they laugh, George says, "I'm just paranoid", and she adds the wish, "Fingers crossed behind my back. I hope they break up real quick".

Swift had a brief romantic relationship with Matty Healy, the frontman for the band The 1975; George Daniel, Charli's now-husband and then-boyfriend, is the drummer for that band. Swift expresses in her new track that it is "actually romantic" that the other pop star dedicates so much of their time to her. She sings that the antagonism "Sounded nasty but it feels like you're flirting with me," adding, "All the effort you've put in, it's actually romantic."

Neither of the artists has confirmed that their respective songs are about the other. Swift complimented Charli in an interview with New York Magazine just last year. Swift was quoted by New York Magazine saying, "I've been blown away by Charli's melodic sensibilities since I first heard 'Stay Away' in 2011," but the recently released track has prompted fans to speculate that the supposed conflict has reignited.

The launch event film for "The Life of a Showgirl" premiered in cinemas on Friday, featuring a mixture of behind-the-scenes footage, a music video, and explanations of the songs. In a concise opening to "Actually Romantic", Swift offered new clarity about the song's intent, stating it concerns the unexpected realization that a person is an integral part of someone else's narrative. Swift said, "There can be this moment where it's unveiled to you, through things that they do that are very overt," adding, "And, as I've gotten older, I've just started to be like, 'Oh my God, you did so much with this. It's flattering,'", BBC News reported. She further explained, "That is, wow, that is very, very sweet of you to think about me this much, even if it's negative. In my industry, attention is affection, and you've given me a whole lot of it."

Attendees at a Taylor Swift-only club night called "Swiftogeddon" in Clapham, south London, on Friday evening confessed they spent the entire day meticulously analyzing the new lyrics. Attending the event with her 21-year-old friend Scarlett was Anya, a 24-year-old from Brighton, who noted that she does not have to extensively decode the lyrics "because the internet does it for me," BBC News reported. Anya was convinced "Actually Romantic" was about Charli, expressing her connection to the song's words by telling BBC News, "It's universal, we've all had that feeling," but Tanya, 27, who is a huge Charli XCX fan, voiced her opinion that it was not "very fair or feminist" for Swift to seemingly criticize Charli. Tanya also stated, "I don't think she should've done it. But, hey, freedom of expression, I guess."

Fans have consistently attempted to decipher Swift's lyrics to pinpoint the subjects of her songs. This newest album proves no different. Besides the songs that are clearly dedicated to her fiancé, Travis Kelce, other tracks that have been widely speculated about online include Father Figure (thought to be about music executive Scott Borchetta), Cancelled! (possibly about the status of her friendship with Blake Lively), and Opalite (which some speculate is about Kelce's ex, Kayla Nicole). Swift, widely known for writing numerous break-up songs, has previously mentioned that she will never confirm the identities of the people her songs address.

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October 7 marked both the scheduled concert date and the second anniversary of Hamas' assault on Israel, which killed approximately 1,200 people – mostly civillians – and resulted in 251 hostages during the 2023 cross-border attack.

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The 12-track album runs approximately 42 minutes, blending pop anthems with narrative-driven ballads, CNN reported. During her appearance on fiancé Travis Kelce's "New Heights" podcast, Swift described every song as a "banger" representing "the record I've been wanting to make for a very long time," focusing on "everything that was going on behind the curtain" during her Eras Tour, according to CNN. She aimed to create "melodies that were so infectious that you're almost angry at it," CNN noted, parsing the lyrics and their hidden meaning.

"The Fate of Ophelia" lyrics: What do they mean? 

Martin and Shellback's production on opening track. "The Fate of Ophelia" lyrics include sophisticated wordplay with Shakespeare allusions, CNN reported. The duo's seemingly effortless hit-making obscures the difficulty of crafting successful songs, according to CNN. All tracks received collaborative writing and production from Swift, Martin, and Shellback, creating a cohesive narrative from energetic beginning through the Sabrina Carpenter-featured title track, CNN noted.

Kelce's influence permeates the album's romantic content, with explicit tracks "Wood" and "Honey" featuring mature themes, CNN reported. "Wood" includes lyrics such as "his lovе was the key that opened my thighs" and mentions "new heights of manhood," eschewing subtlety entirely, according to CNN.

The complete track listing features "The Fate of Ophelia," "Elizabeth Taylor," "Opalite," "Father Figure," "Eldest Daughter," "Ruin The Friendship," "Actually Romantic," "Wi$h Li$t," "Wood," "CANCELLED!," "Honey," and the Carpenter collaboration "The Life of a Showgirl," CNN reported.

In The Graham Norton Show's latest episode, which was part of of the promotional campaign in the run to the release of the new album, the newly engaged Taylor Swift assured fans they won't miss her wedding announcement during a candid Graham Norton Show appearance where she confirmed album promotion precedes marriage planning, displaying her reported seven-figure engagement ring from NFL fiancé Travis Kelce while discussing The Life of a Showgirl release strategy.

Fans will be informed when Taylor Swift ties the knot, the superstar confirmed, noting wedding preparations remain on hold until promotional duties for her latest album conclude.

Promotional photographs released by the BBC captured the music icon looking radiant in a black velvet David Koma gown featuring a crystal-embroidered choker neckline as she occupied the British talk program's signature red sofa, according to the Daily Mail.

Front and center was her new engagement ring from Travis Kelce, who proposed this past August, with Swift displaying the diamond sparkler that allegedly set her NFL star fiancé back between $700,000 and $1,000,000, the Daily Mail noted.

When Norton inquired about the wedding timeline, she responded: "You'll know. I want to do the album stuff first, and the wedding is what happens after in terms of planning. I think it will be fun to plan," the Daily Mail reported.

Discussing her highly anticipated album "The Life of a Showgirl" in greater detail, Swift explained: "Last year on the tour I was physically exhausted – sick and worn down – so to spark me up I had the album as a secret passion project behind the scenes. It stopped me hitting a wall," according to the Daily Mail.

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Dua Lipa dropped her Jewish manager, David Levy, after his public support for Israel, including a letter calling on Glastonbury to cut a pro-Palestinian group.

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 The letter was sent by Levy and several other Jewish music industry figures to festival founder Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily. They argued that the band "Kneecap" encourages antisemitism and supports the Hezbollah organization. The letter was later leaked, exposing the representatives' actions regarding the artists they represent.

A music industry source claims that "Dua made sure through her people that David Levy wasn't working on her music anymore. She is very openly pro-Palestine and that doesn't align with David. She views him as being a supporter of Israel's war in Gaza, and the terrible treatment of the Palestinians and that was made very clear through the letter that he signed and sent to Michael Eavis."

The British singer is known for her anti-Israel positions. Among other things, in May 2024, she condemned Israel in an Instagram post to her 88 million followers, writing that it is committing genocide in Gaza.

In fact, the band Massive Attack from Bristol also stopped working with David Levy because of his positions. Now, Lipa remains with the same management company, "William Morris Endeavor," but is now represented by a different agent.

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