| Speak Now: World Tour Live | ||||
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| Live album by Taylor Swift | ||||
| Released | November 21, 2011 | |||
| Length | 79:03 (CD) 139:29 (DVD/Blu-ray) |
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| Label | Big Machine | |||
| Producer | Taylor Swift, Robert Allen, Scott Borchetta, Andrea Swift, Jim Weatherson | |||
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Speak Now: World Tour Live is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 21, 2011 by Big Machine Records. The live album debuted at number eleven on the US Billboard 200 chart with 77,000 sold.
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The album was announced on September 21, 2011 via Swift's official website, along with the album cover. The DVD and Blu-ray releases feature all seventeen performances from the North American leg of the Speak Now World Tour, as well as bonus content. The CD has over seventy-five minutes of music as well as select live performances from the Speak Now album. The combo was released on November 21, 2011.[1][2] A Target exclusive of the live album contains the bonus performances of "Ours, "Nashville" and "Sweet Escape", as well as the behind the scene making of the music video for "Mean".[3] Many of the songs and performances were captured from various legs around the world of the tour.[4] The Brazilian release of the album contains a previously unreleased version of the song "Long Live" featuring new verses in Portuguese composed and sang by singer Paula Fernandes, it is also confirmed to be in the Brazilian singer's upcoming new album to be released in the middle of 2012. The video for the song was shot in early December, 2011 and features footage of Paula as she's in a concert from Taylor's Speak Now Tour.
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [5] |
| Roughstock | [6] |
Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave a mixed review on the album and stated that Swift "has shown a lot of growth through the years and takes her live show seriously so It’s good to hear this live album sound nearly as good as her records do." Bjorke also compared the CD/DVD combo to Sugarland's Live on the Inside.[6] Allmusic rated the album three out of five stars.[5]
The live album debut at number eleven on the US Billboard 200 chart with 77,000 sold.[7] 'Live' has sold 190,368 copies in the USA.[8]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Sparks Fly" | Taylor Swift | 5:39 |
| 2. | "Mine" | Swift | 4:19 |
| 3. | "The Story of Us" | Swift | 4:49 |
| 4. | "Mean" | Swift | 4:09 |
| 5. | "Ours" | Swift | 4:05 |
| 6. | "Medley: Back to December / Apologize / You're Not Sorry" | Swift, Ryan Tedder | 6:01 |
| 7. | "Better than Revenge" | Swift | 5:44 |
| 8. | "Speak Now" | Swift | 4:09 |
| 9. | "Last Kiss" | Swift | 6:12 |
| 10. | "Drops of Jupiter" | Jimmy Stafford, Scott Underwood, Pat Monahan, Charlie Colin, Rob Hotchkiss | 5:08 |
| 11. | "Bette Davis Eyes" | Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon | 3:07 |
| 12. | "I Want You Back" | Freddie Perren, Deke Richards, Berry Gordy, Jr., Alphonso Mizell | 1:21 |
| 13. | "Dear John" | Swift | 6:45 |
| 14. | "Enchanted" | Swift | 6:25 |
| 15. | "Haunted" | Swift | 4:49 |
| 16. | "Long Live" | Swift | 6:21 |
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Total length:
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79:03 | ||
| Brazilian bonus track[9] | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 17. | "Long Live" (featuring Paula Fernandes) | Swift, Fernandes | 5:16 | ||||||
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Total length:
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84:19 | ||||||||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Sparks Fly" | Swift | 7:27 |
| 2. | "Mine" | Swift | 4:19 |
| 3. | "The Story of Us" | Swift | 8:02 |
| 4. | "Our Song" | Swift | 8:11 |
| 5. | "Mean" | Swift | 5:26 |
| 6. | "Medley: Back to December / Apologize / You're Not Sorry" | Swift, Tedder | 7:43 |
| 7. | "Better than Revenge" | Swift | 5:45 |
| 8. | "Speak Now" | Swift | 8:08 |
| 9. | "Medley: Fearless / Hey, Soul Sister / I'm Yours" | Swift, Liz Rose, Hilary Lindsey, Amond Bjorklund, Espen Lind, Pat Monahan, Jason Mraz | 5:53 |
| 10. | "Last Kiss" | Swift | 9:10 |
| 11. | "Drops of Jupiter" | Stafford, Underwood, Monahan, Colin, Hotchkiss | 5:13 |
| 12. | "You Belong with Me" | Swift, Rose | 7:40 |
| 13. | "Dear John" | Swift | 6:43 |
| 14. | "Enchanted" | Swift | 8:59 |
| 15. | "Haunted" | Swift | 6:33 |
| 16. | "Long Live" | Swift | 8:01 |
| 17. | "Fifteen" | Swift | 7:16 |
| 18. | "Love Story" | Swift | 8:46 |
| 19. | "Home Movies" | 5:05 | |
| 20. | "Rehearsal of the Speak Now World Tour" | 5:09 | |
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Total length:
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139:29 | ||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 17. | "Ours" | Swift | 5:36 | ||||||
| 18. | "Fifteen" | Swift | 7:16 | ||||||
| 19. | "Love Story" | Swift | 8:46 | ||||||
| 20. | "Nashville" | David Mead | 5:57 | ||||||
| 21. | "Sweet Escape" | Gwen Stefani, Aliaune Thiam, Giorgio Tuinfort | 3:22 | ||||||
| 22. | "On the Set with Taylor Swift: Mean" | 20:43 | |||||||
| 23. | "Home Movies" | 5:05 | |||||||
| 24. | "Rehearsal of the Speak Now World Tour" | 5:09 | |||||||
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Total length:
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175:07 | ||||||||
Credits for Speak Now: World Tour Live adapted from Allmusic.[11]
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| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums Chart[12] | 30 |
| Canadian Albums Chart[13] | 25 |
| US Billboard 200[7] | 11 |
| US Billboard Top Country Albums[14] | 2 |
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