Anyone who feared they would never get another shot at purchasing vinyl variants of Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" can put that dread aside. Although the two limited-edition LP editions that Swift put up for sale last week sold out on her webstore within an hour, she has returned with an on-sale of two different versions of the album with an entirely different third cover, dubbed the "Baby, That's Show Business Edition." The Vegas showgirl motif continues in this newly unveiled cover image, photographed, like all the other artwork, by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. This edition is available in two vinyl colors: "lovely bouquet golden vinyl" and "lakeside beach blue sparkle vinyl." More from Variety FTC Files Suit Against Reseller for Price-Gouging Concert Tickets, Including for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Taylor Swift Puts Vinyl Variants of 'The Life of a Showgirl' Up for Sale, and They Sell Out in Less Than an Hour Taylor Swift's 'New Heights' Podcast Earns 13 Million YouTube Views in 24 Hours as She Unveils 'The Life of a Showgirl' (Update: the blue vinyl variant was marked as sold out about a half-hour after the items went on sale at 3 p.m. ET Thursday, and the golden vinyl sold out just past the one-hour point.) Her webstore shows that this edition will be available for 48 hours or "while supplies last," which, as noted, ended up being less than one hour for the previous release. These versions of the album can be foundhere. The previous variants, which went on sale and almost immediately sold out on Monday, were dubbed"The Shiny Bug Collection."The standard edition, an orange-sparkle disc that has the image of Swift in full costume in a bathtub, is not a limited edition and remains on sale. These alternate vinyl editions follow on the heels of three deluxe CD variants that went on sale last week in Swift's webstore, each of which did last longer than an hour on sale but still sold out well before the announced end time. Anyone who missed out on these LPs or CDs can surely count on more variants coming in the pipeline before the album's Oct. 3 release, and if these have set a pattern, it's to expect a three-hour countdown clock appearing on her webstore before fresh variations go on sale. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) All of the covers for the standard and deluxe editions of the album use the showgirl motif and point back toward Swift's stated theme for the album, which is that it reflects her experiences balancing show business and her personal life on the nearly two-year Eras Tour. In the recent past, Swift has augmented her variants with bonus tracks, including a deluxe edition of "The Tortured Poets Department" that was nearly twice as long as the standard edition, but she declared in a podcast appearance with Travis Kelce that she would not be doing that this time around. So fans can count on the differences in editions of "Showgirl" having to do with packaging and not content. "With 'Tortured Poets Department,' I was like here's a data dump of everything I thought, felt, experienced in two or three years. Here's 31 songs. This is 12," she said in the podcast. "There's not a thirteenth, there's not other ones coming. This is the record I've been wanting to make for a very long time. I also wanted it to be every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons, and you couldn't take one out and it be the same album, you couldn't add one and be… It's just right." She continued, "That focus and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I've been wanting to do for a very long time," she continued. "I tend to write lots and lots of music, so it's a temptation to release lots of music. But oftentimes, I wanted to do an album that was so focused on quality and on the theme and everything fitting together like a perfect puzzle that these 12 songs for my 12th album, I feel like we achieved that and I'm really happy about that." Best of Variety Oscar Predictions 2026: Venice and Telluride Will Spark the Start of Awards Season New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.
