"The Alchemy"

"Clara Bow"

Additionally, there are four different confirmed editions of the album, each named after the bonus track it will include: "The Bolter," "The Albatross," "The Black Dog" and "The Manuscript."

Post Malone and Florence & the Machine are also credited as songwriters on their respective tracks.

What promotional activity has gone on?

After the initial announcement at the Grammys, Swift was relatively quiet. In recent weeks, though, she's gone back to her internet-breaking behavior.

It started with an Apple Music collaboration that saw Swift releasing five different playlists on the platform, each consisting of songs from her catalog and representing one of the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The playlists were titled with track names and lyrics from "The Tortured Poets Department."

Then, on Saturday, Apple Music marked the final countdown to the album with a digital scavenger hunt.

"A word a day til the @taylorswift13 album drops," the music service wrote in its bio on X (formerly Twitter).

Soon after, fans discovered that the secret words were hidden within song lyrics on Apple Music. Thus far, they've parsed the words "hereby," "conduct," "this," "post" and "we," and while many have their theories, the meaning of the incomplete word jumble is still unknown.

The festivities have also moved offline, to Spotify's "The Tortured Poets Department" library installation at the Grove in L.A., which debuted Tuesday and is open through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

"Fans will be able to explore a poetry library, highly curated to represent the new record," the event description on the Grove's website reads. "The shelves will be packed with books and visual surprises for fans to enjoy."

Visitors also seem to be finding a number of Swift's trademark Easter eggs throughout the installation, including an upside-down "So Long, London" title — which fans suspect is a nod to her year-ago breakup with British actor Joe Alwyn — and a clock set to 2.

The former visual also appeared in a video Swift posted Tuesday on Instagram. Captioned "The TTPD Timetable," the cryptic clip guides viewers from a "Midnights"-style room into "The Tortured Poets Department," where a wall calendar teases a Friday music video release.

How can I listen to the new album?

"The Tortured Poets Department" is available to preorder (and pre-save on Spotify or Apple Music) on Swift's website, and is currently being offered in vinyl, cassette, CD and digital album formats to be released April 19. It will also start streaming on that date — which for West Coasters means at 9 p.m. Pacific Thursday.

The four versions of the album are also available to preorder on Swift's website, but CD and vinyl versions of the album are also available at Target. Currently, there is no version of the album, digital or physical, that will contain all four bonus tracks.

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