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Target said they will open select stores at midnight for customers to get Taylor Swift's newest album "The Life of a Showgirl."

What you can do:

Target says the exclusive event will take place at midnight local time on October 3. The list of participating stores can be found here. 

The store will limit customers to four purchases. 

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Customers can also preorder the album before its released online. 

Swift announces 12th studio album: ‘The Life of a Showgirl'

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Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl," last month. 

Swift, Max Martin and Shellback are the credited producers, which includes a notable absence of her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. The final track, "The Life of a Showgirl," will feature Sabrina Carpenter. A full tracklist is below.

She also revealed the album artwork, which features the singer submerged in water and continues her color scheme of orange and mint green.

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A special limited vinyl edition of the album will be released in "Portofino orange glitter," according to a preorder page on her site. A special cassette edition is also available for preorder.

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The road to ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

The backstory:

"The Life of a Showgirl" follows last year’s "The Tortured Poets Department," announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour, which raked in over $2.2 billion across two years and five continents, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time.

The album is also Swift’s first release since she regained control over her entire body of work. In May, the pop star said she purchased her catalog of recordings — originally released through Big Machine Records — from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount paid.

In recent years, Swift had been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an attempt to regain control of her music. The project was instigated by music executive Scooter Braun’s purchase and sale of her early catalog. Previous "Taylor’s Version" releases have been more than conventional re-recordings, arriving with new "from the vault" music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.

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Big picture view:

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"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," the caption read, accompanied by an emoji of a dynamite stick.