[a] Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Christopher Rowe produced the majority of the album; Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella, Shellback, and Imogen Heap reprised their production roles.

Extended editions of the album additionally feature the re-recorded versions of the One Chance soundtrack song "Sweeter than Fiction" (2013) and the Kendrick Lamar remix of "Bad Blood" (2015).

The album topped record charts in Australia, Canada, and European territories including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

She then withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new deal with Republic Records, which secured her the rights to own the masters of any new music she would release.

[6] In 2019, American music executive Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine;[7] the ownership of the masters to Swift's first six studio albums, including 1989, was transferred to him.

[17] On August 9, 2023, at the final Los Angeles show at SoFi Stadium as part of Swift's Eras Tour, she performed in five new blue outfits, representing the color that Swift's fans associated 1989 with;[18] during the half-show acoustic set, she announced 1989 (Taylor's Version) as her next re-recorded album, set for release on October 27, 2023, exactly nine years after the original release of 1989.

[21] Re-recordings of the "Bad Blood" remix (2015) featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar and "Sweeter than Fiction" (2013), a song Swift and Jack Antonoff contributed to the soundtrack of One Chance (2013), were included on extended editions of 1989 (Taylor's Version) as bonus tracks.

All of the vault tracks were written and produced by Swift and Antonoff, except "Say Don't Go", which was co-written by the American songwriter Diane Warren.

[30] Variety's Chris Willman, meanwhile, felt that some production elements of the vault tracks were influenced by the music of Swift's tenth original studio album, Midnights (2022).

[28][31] "Say Don't Go" is about hanging on to an unfruitful relationship;[27] it has a pop rock production consisting of isolated vocal patterns and 1980s-inspired drums.

[34] It features an insistent disco groove and an outro of dissipating synthesizers[34][39] in a production that People's Jeff Nelson described as "driving, sometimes wind chime-y".

[34][31][41] Musically, the song is an electropop power ballad[26][42] that features dense reverb, synthesizers, and echoing drum machines.

[43] She also partnered with Google Search to launch a feature for solving word puzzles to uncover the album's "From the Vault" track titles.

Searching for "Taylor Swift" gave rise to an animated graphic of a blue vault, which, upon being clicked, produced one of 89 puzzles with or without an accompanying hint.

[51] A deluxe edition containing the re-recorded remix of "Bad Blood" featuring Lamar was released onto streaming and digital download platforms hours after the standard album.

[51][d] The standard cover is a photograph of Swift in red lipstick with a background of a blue sky and seagulls flying in the distance.

[37] NME's Hollie Geraghty, The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick, and Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of Financial Times regarded 1989 (Taylor's Version) as Swift's best record;[28][27] the lattermost said that the album showcased "the highly engineered setting of the perfect pop song".

[64] Will Hodgkinson of The Times dubbed the album a "pop masterclass",[63] and Ed Power of the i described it as "bright, brash, smart and catchy".

[65] Rolling Stone's Angie Martoccio,[37] American Songwriter's Alex Hopper,[33] and Pitchfork's Shaad D'Souza opined that the re-recorded album proved the timeless quality of the original.

[32][33] By contrast, Adam White of The Independent wrote that Swift's improved vocals losing 2014's raw "strain" made the re-recording a "diminished" pop classic.

[67] Aroesti,[26] Martoccio,[37] Power,[65] and Hopper regarded them as a worthwhile addition with more depth and a showcase of Swift's songwriting talents.

[70] Republic Records reported global opening-week sales of over 3.5 million units, making it the third best selling female album in its debut week ever.

[77] 1989 (Taylor's Version) was the first album to sell over one million copies on vinyl in a single calendar year since Luminate began tracking US music sales in 1991.

[79] This marked the fifth time Swift had both a song and an album debut atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously, extending an all-time record.

[72] 1989 (Taylor's Version) reached number one on the albums charts of many European territories, including Austria, Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.