Lover (Live from Paris)

Lover (Live from Paris) is the fourth live album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, consisting of live renditions of songs that she performed at the one-off City of Lover concert in Paris on September 9, 2019. The tracks had been released individually to streaming services on May 19, 2020, by Republic Records, and they were compiled into Lover (Live from Paris), first released as a Valentine's Day limited-edition vinyl album on February 14, 2023.

Lover (Live from Paris)
Limited-time digital download cover
Live album by Taylor Swift
Released	February 14, 2023 (2023-02-14)
Recorded	September 9, 2019
Venue	Olympia, Paris, France
Length	30:31
Label	Republic
Producer	Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift chronology
Midnights (2022) Lover (Live from Paris) (2023) Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (2023)

Lover (Live from Paris) debuted on record charts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, topping the US Billboard Vinyl Albums chart. It was reissued on January 7, and released for limited-time download on January 16, 2025. The album then topped the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number two on the Irish Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 chart. Lover (Live from Paris) went on to become a collectable among Swift's fans.

Background and release

Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, was released on August 23, 2019, via Republic Records.^[1][2] To celebrate the album's release, she held the one-off concert City of Lover at the Olympia theater in Paris, France, on September 9, 2019.^[3] It would become Swift's only concert to support Lover.^[3]

On May 17, 2020, the concert was aired as a one-hour special, titled Taylor Swift: City of Lover, on ABC, and was later made available for on-demand streaming on Hulu and Disney+.^[4][5] The TV special featured eight songs from Lover^[6] and each of them were released on digital music and streaming platforms,^[7] except "The Man", which had been previously available for streaming since February 18, 2020.^[8]

On February 13, 2023, Lover (Live from Paris) was announced by Swift's official fan account as a limited-edition vinyl album for release on Valentine's Day via Republic Records.^[9] Each package contains two heart-shaped LPs—one pink and the other blue—and was made available for purchase on Swift's online store exclusively.^[10] Billboard reported that a total of 13,000 copies of the album were available for purchase in the US.^[11]

The album was reissued on January 7, 2025, on Swift's online store as a 72-hour limited edition. The re-release also contained two heart-shaped vinyl LPs, but both of them pink-colored with yellow and blue marbling, respectively. It sold out within a few hours of release.^[12] On January 16, 2025, the standard edition and three deluxe editions of the album were made available for digital download through Swift's online store for six hours. The three deluxe editions contained one live bonus track of a song from Lover performed during the Eras Tour (2023–2024): "False God", "I Think He Knows", or "Paper Rings".^[13]

Reception

Lover (Live from Paris) was the best-selling vinyl album in the United States for the chart week dated March 4, 2023. It topped the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart as Swift's ninth number-one album on the chart,^[14] landed at number five on the Top Album Sales chart by selling 13,000 copies,^[11] and debuted at number 58 on the overall Billboard 200.^[15] Alongside the live album's entry on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 4, 2023, Swift charted nine other albums,^{[note 1]} becoming the first artist in history to place at least 10 albums on the Billboard 200 simultaneously since Prince in 2016; Swift is the first living soloist to chart 10 albums in a single week since 1963.^[11] According to Luminate, Lover (Live from Paris) sold 212,000 units in physical and digital copies in 2025 alone.^[16]

Following its vinyl reissue and digital release in 2025, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number two, behind Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos, with 202,500 album-equivalent units, all from album sales, of which 161,000 were vinyl sales.^[13] It marks the largest vinyl sales week for a live album since Luminate started tracking in 1991, and Swift's 18th top-ten album on the chart.^[13] It also topped the Top Album Sales chart as Swift's 15th number-one album, making her surpass Jay-Z as the artist with the most number-one albums on that chart.^[17] Lover (Live from Paris) also topped the UK Albums Chart and became Swift's 13th number-one album in the UK, surpassing Madonna's record of the most number-one albums by a female artist in the country.^[18]

Publications have described Lover (Live from Paris) as a rare, collectible album. Variety dubbed it as Swift's "rarest vinyl", treated by fans as a "fetish item". The outlet reported that the album's original LPs were regularly sold over on eBay for US$1,000.^[19] ComingSoon.net described it as a "highly sought-after collector's item".^[20] ClutchPoints said "it may be the rarest entry in her discography to get on vinyl."^[21]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Taylor Swift and subtitled "(Live from Paris)".^[9]

Side A

1. "Me!" (Taylor Swift, Joel Little, Brendon Urie) – 3:33
2. "The Archer" (Swift, Jack Antonoff) – 3:30

Side B

3. "Death by a Thousand Cuts" (Swift, Antonoff) – 3:19
4. "Cornelia Street" (Swift) – 4:56

Side C

5. "The Man" (Swift, Little) – 3:39
6. "Daylight" (Swift) – 4:22

Side D

7. "You Need to Calm Down" (Swift, Little) – 3:23
8. "Lover" (Swift) – 3:49

Personnel

• Taylor Swift – vocals, production, songwriting, piano, guitar
• Max Bernstein – guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard
• Mike Meadows – acoustic guitar, keyboard
• Paul Sidoti – guitar, acoustic guitar
• Amos Heller – bass, keyboard
• Eliotte Woodford – background vocals
• Jeslyn Gorman – background vocals
• Kamilah Marshall – background vocals
• Melanie Nyema – background vocals
• Matt Billingslea – drums
• David Cook – keyboard
• Jack Antonoff – songwriting
• Joel Little – songwriting
• Brendon Urie – songwriting
• Christopher Rowe – mastering, mixing, engineering

Charts

2023 chart performance for Lover (Live from Paris)

Chart (2023)	Peak position
Australian Vinyl Albums (ARIA)[22]	6
Scottish Albums (OCC)[23]	9
UK Albums (OCC)[24]	90
US Billboard 200[15]	58

2025 chart performance for Lover (Live from Paris)

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[25]	14
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[26]	39
Irish Albums (OCC)[27]	2
Scottish Albums (OCC)[28]	1
UK Albums (OCC)[29]	1
US Billboard 200[13]	2

Release history

Release dates and formats for Lover (Live from Paris)

Release date	Format(s)	Label	Ref.
February 14, 2023	Vinyl LP	Republic	[9]
January 7, 2025	Vinyl LP (reissue)		[30]
January 16, 2025	Digital download (Bonus editions)		[13]

Notes

1. Midnights (2022) – number three, Folklore (2020) – number 28, Lover (2019) – number 41, 1989 (2014) – number 50, Red (Taylor's Version) (2021) – number 56, Reputation (2017) – number 100, Evermore (2020) – number 103, Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021) – number 172 and Speak Now (2010) – number 192.