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The exact date and times that Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department drops around the world have been revealed.
The Style hitmaker, 34, is releasing her 11th studio album on Friday April 19 - with timings varying depending on where you are in world.
The highly-anticipated album will feature 17 new songs - and is her next record after Midnights was released in 2022.
She announced the album at the Grammy Awards earlier this year after shared the track listing for the record, which includes collaborations with Post Malone and Florence + the Machine.
It is thought that the album will focus on her breakup from actor Joe Alwyn, 33, who she dated for six years.
The exact date and times that Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department drops around the world have been revealed
The Style hitmaker, 34, is releasing her 11th studio album on Friday April 19 - with timings varying depending on where you are in world
During one of her Eras Tour shows earlier this year she revealed how important making her recent music was.
Speaking on stage she said: 'It sort of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through life and I've never had an album where I've needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.'
And for those fans wanting to be the first to hear the new tracks below are the world timings:
United States (Pacific Time) - 9:00 PM (Thursday 18) United States (Eastern Time) - 12:00 AM Canada - 12:00 AM (Toronto), 9:00 PM (Thursday 18) (Vancouver) Brazil (Rio De Janiero) - 1:00 AM Argentina (Buenos Aires) - 1:00 AM United Kingdom (BST) - 5:00 AM Europe (Central European Time) - 6:00 AM South Africa (Cape Town, Central Africa Time) - 6:00 AM India (New Delhi) - 9:30 AM Indonesia (Jakarta) - 11:00 AM Philippines (Manila) - 12:00 PM China - 12:00 PM (Beijing, Shanghai) Hong Kong - 12:00 PM Singapore - 12:00 PM Australia - 12:00 PM (Perth), 2:00 PM (Sydney) Japan (Tokyo) - 1:00 PM New Zealand (Auckland) - 4:00 PMIt comes after Taylor unveiled a pop-up library in Los Angeles earlier this week as she geared up for the new album.
The Karma hitmaker's fans waited in line for upwards of five hours in order to attend a pop-up poetry library.
Fans were seen lining around the block for the special event, sponsored by Spotify, starting at five in the morning, just to gain some insight into Swift's upcoming 11th studio album, the Tortured Poets Department.
The singer is known for surprising her fans with Easter Eggs, and she continued on in the tradition, putting up a large bookshelf with clues about her new body of work.
This is the first album from Swift where she has not released a single ahead of the album, which added to fans' eagerness to learn any new information about what's to come.
The display was located right across the street from Cheesecake Factory at the Grove, where Swift's longtime nemesis Kanye West frequently dines with wife Bianca Censori.
Among the carefully curated items fans sifted through and later discussed on social media was a clock stuck on '2:00 PM' - like in the new promo video -, a
