The grand Taylor Swift career revisiting experiment officially kicked off on Friday morning (April 9) with the release of the 27-track Fearless (Taylor’s Version) re-imagining of the singer’s beloved 2008 No. 1 album.
The highly-anticipated reboot — featuring freshly recorded versions of such beloved songs as “Love Story,” “You Belong With Me,” “Breathe,” “Fifteen” and “White Horse,” as well as six new “From the Vault” tracks — is a big-swing experiment to see if Swifties will once again dig into an album they already know backwards, forwards and sideways.
Hardcore Swift fans will certainly show support for the pop icon re-taking the reins of the collection, whose rights were sold (and then re-sold) when manager Scooter Braun purchased the recorded music assets of her former label home, Big Machine Label group, in 2019.
So the question is: which version of the album will pop up first when you search for it as of Friday, and how easy will it be to hear the new one?
Billboard staffers embarked on a semi-scientific quest to find out by searching streaming services and asking our devices and to “Play Taylor Swift’s Fearless” and searching for “Taylor Swift Fearless” and “Fearless” first thing in the morning.
Check out our results below.
YouTube: new version
Google Nest: old version (via Spotify)
Google: old version
Spotify: old version (when searching “Taylor Swift Fearless“), new version (when searching Fearless)
Apple Music: new version (with old version as second search result)
Siri: original version of song “Fearless” when asked “hey Siri, play Taylor Swift’s Fearless“; new version when searching on iTunes store
Pandora: original version, followed by Platinum edition of original, then new version
Amazon Music: new version (via website)
Alexa: original version (via Amazon Music)
Stay tuned for updates on search results later in the day.
