New York, NY (August 24, 2019) – On release day, Taylor Swift’s Lover has surpassed over 2 million global consumption. Additionally, Lover generates the year's biggest first-week US sales in just 24 hours.

Lover is the ten-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, record-breaking superstar’s seventh album. Taylor Swift's juggernaut arrives as a fan favorite and currently ranks as Taylor's highest rated critically acclaimed album on Metacritic.

Here is what the critics are saying about Lover:

"Lover is a career-topping masterpiece" – Rolling Stone

“The superstar’s writing is better than it’s ever been on her latest album” – Rolling Stone

“The old Taylor is back on Lover and the best she's been in years" – Vulture

"Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Is A Masterful, Heartfelt Pop Spectacle” – Forbes

“Critics are falling in love with Taylor Swift's latest album Lover” – USA Today

"Lover offers plenty of evidence that Swift is just a better songwriter than any of her competitors in the upper echelons of pop" – Guardian

"Lover is an album of revelation through pain that sees Swift pushing herself in surprising ways...some of the most intriguing lyrics of her career" – The Atlantic

“It is a towering work that’s worth both close analysis on headphones and scream-alongs on stadium speakers.” – Billboard

“Taylor Swift’s Lover Could Hold the Key to Pop Music’s Survival” – Vanity Fair

"Taylor Swift’s triumphant new album Lover" – The Sun

"Lover is a return to vulnerability and romance" – Pitchfork

"Taylor Swift's 'Lover' is grown-up, complex pop" – LA Times

"Swift’s vocals are also in peak form throughout, with varied timbres and layers of harmony and spontaneous sounding interjections that constantly catch me by surprise" – Slate

"Taylor Swift Emerges From the Darkness Unbroken on ‘Lover’" – The New York Times