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Taylor Swift surprises fans with another album due tonight

ā€˜Evermore’ is singer’s second album in 2020

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This cover image released by Republic Records shows Taylor Swift's new album "Evermore," the sister album to "Folklore." A video for a new song, Willow, will arrive along with the album at midnight ET Thursday. (Republic Records via AP)

Taylor Swift fans are getting a double reason to celebrate this year — the singer-songwriter is about to release her second album in 2020.

ā€œTo put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs,ā€ Swift wrote in social media posts Thursday morning. ā€œI’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released.ā€

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Swift said the new album is called ā€œEvermore,ā€ which she described as a ā€œsisterā€ album to her latest release, ā€œFolklore.ā€ A video for a new song, ā€œWillow,ā€ will arrive along with the album, to be released at midnight ET Thursday.

Taylor revealed the track list for the 15-song new album and noted that some of the guests are Haim, The National and Bon Iver. She turns 31 on Sunday.

ā€œFolklore,ā€ released this summer, enjoyed three separate visits to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and became the first album to sell a million copies in the U.S. in 2020.

On Instagram, Swift said working on ā€œFolkloreā€ was different than her previous albums and she just kept writing songs. ā€œI felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning. I loved the escapism I found in these imaginary/not imaginary tales,ā€ she wrote.

ā€œI loved the ways you welcomed the dreamscapes and tragedies and epic tales of love lost and found into your lives. So I just kept writing them.ā€