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Taylor Swift Announces ‘Black Dog’ Edition Of ‘Tortured Poets’

Author Laila Abuelhawa
Taylor Swift attends the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.

Taylor Swift has announced the third and “final” limited special edition of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department. The icon made the announcement of the bonus track, “The Black Dog,” during a “secret songs” segment in Singapore over the weekend.

As a title, “The Black Dog” will be intriguing to fans who know it as a popular expression for depression or melancholy. It was apparently first used by poet Samuel Johnson in the 1700s and popularized in the 20th century through its association with Winston Churchill. Although little is known about the newest Swift bonus track, she did include a presumed lyrical snippet on social media. In the caption, Swift writes: “Old habits die screaming…” This vinyl is black and features a photo of Swift grasping at her head and neck with her arms. In the second slide, the singer-songwriter looks to the side, with some white flowers peeking out from the bottom of the photograph. This version of the album will be available only through Swift’s official website, with a cutoff time of Wednesday, March 6th at 2 p.m. ET, while supplies last.

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The previous limited editions of her upcoming eleventh studio album were centered around the bonus tracks “The Albatross” and “The Bolter,” both of which are no longer for sale on her website. However, the first bonus track she revealed, “The Manuscript,” is still available online. All of the physical CD, vinyl, and cassette editions of the album each have one of these four songs as an extra track, with only the digital release being sans a bonus song. All editions of The Tortured Poets Department come out on April 19th.

Here’s the full tracklist for the album:

Side A

Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad

Side B

So Long, London
But Daddy I Love Him
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!! (Florence + the Machine)

Side C

Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
loml

Side D

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow
Bonus Track: The Manuscript

The 5 Most Anticipated, Highest-Priced Concert Tours of 2024

As we kick off 2024, many of our favorite musicians are planning to hit the road once again. Some are continuing their tours from last year, expanding dates in cities that have sold out and filling up stadiums for their ever-devoted fans. Gametime has released new data highlighting the most anticipated concert tours of the year based on average ticket price — and some of the numbers are astounding. It is no surprise that the highest-priced tours belong to Taylor Swift and Adele, as we’ve covered their past ticket prices being thousands of dollars.

Swift’s Eras Tour shows last three-and-a-half hours as she covers all aspects of her career, from country to pop to indie. With her two “surprise songs” each night, fans are always eager to find out what songs she’ll choose for that segment. On top of that, her timing is impeccable for fans “itching for a post-pandemic live music immersive experience.” Another factor is how much Swifties appreciate Taylor’s dedication to her craft: writing all her songs and reclaiming ownership of all of her music by re-recording her discography. Fans have also been buying and streaming the new versions of her old songs and the bonus tracks on her re-recorded versions of her albums. Her tour is expected to pass $1 billion in sales by this March and if that happens, the singer-songwriter will make history.

Then there’s Adele, whose Las Vegas residency, Weekends With Adele has reached the finale. With 32 dates, the English singer-songwriter will be at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace from January to June. Known for spending time chatting with her fans and making her way down to the audience, the candid moments during Adele’s residency has become well-documented on social media, showing the fun times fans have to see her.

Take a look below at which five music artists have the hottest concert tickets of 2024 so far, based on the prices of their tickets on Gametime.

  • 5. Billy Joel

    Kicking off our list of the highest priced tickets of 2024, the “Piano Man” singer will only be performing for 15 dates. However, his average ticket price is $560.07 and he will be all over the globe, starting with a sold-out show in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24. With more sold-out shows sprinkled throughout his scheduled performances, Joel added additional dates to his original ten events. In additon to his Madison Square Garden residency, he will also play Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wales.

  • 4. Bad Bunny

    Bad Bunny performs onstage during the 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards wearing overalls and a backwards cap hunching toward the audience.

    The “WHERE SHE GOES” singer and rapper will be on his Most Wanted tour, with 47 dates. His median ticket price is $661.01, starting in Utah at the end of February. Bad Bunny will also be making stops in nearly every state: Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Minneapolis, Missouri, Illinois, Ontario, Michigan, Washington, D.C., New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and ending in Florida on May 28.

  • 3. Olivia Rodrigo

    The “vampire” singer embarks on her GUTS World Tour, with her tickets’ median price being $734.17. Rodrigo will be touring the US for 46 dates with accompanying acts Pinkpantheress, The Breeders, Chappell Roan, and Remi Wolf at select cities. The singer will kick off the tour a few days after her 21st birthday in California, before making stops in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Massachusetts, then New York. She will leave North America for tour dates in Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. After a few weeks break, Rodrigo will return to North America for 18 more dates, finally closing out her tour on August 17 in Los Angeles.

  • 2. Adele

    Coming in at second place, Adele’s continuation and end of her Las Vegas residency boasts $2,079.42 as her median ticket prices to watch her perform live. The “Easy on Me” singer will be performing for 32 dates over the course of 2024, from January 19 to June 15 at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace. She had 24 shows in 23 and the English singer-songwriter is set to outdo herself with the additional dates this year. Reflecting on X (formerly Twitter), the Grammy winner said, “This residency, these shows have changed my life. I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have.”

  • 1. Taylor Swift

    The pop icon’s median ticket price for her 2024 Eras Tour is a whopping $3,525.42, having her claim the top spot for highest-priced tickets of the year. With 18 tour dates this year, Swift will be heading all over the globe, making stops at Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, then heading back to the US. She will be performing in Florida, Louisiana, and Indiana, before going global once again in Canada, closing out her tour on December 8 in Vancouver.

Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.

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