VIDEO: First Look - Taylor Swift Performs All-New Song Tonight on ABC

By: Nov. 09, 2017
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A new promo unveiled during GOOD MORNING AMERICA today offers a glimpse of Taylor Swift's first performance of a new song in three years. The exclusive, stand-alone special featuring her song "New Year's Day" will be presented during a break in SCANDAL which airs at 9 p.m. EST tonight on The ABC Television Network. The three-minute world premiere event coincides with the release of Swift's highly anticipated new album, reputation, tonight at midnight, and comes on the heels of the artist's win for Song of the Year for "Better Man," written for Little Big Town, during "The 51st Annual CMA Awards" last night on ABC. FreeForm will air a four-minute extended version Friday at 9 p.m. EST during "The Duff," which starts at 8:30 p.m. EST.

The intimate performance was filmed in the living room of her Rhode Island home with more than 100 fans in attendance for a secret session in support of reputation and marks the singer's first television appearance in promotion of her sixth studio album.

About Taylor Swift Taylor Swift's chart-topping first single, "Look What You Made Me Do," from her critically acclaimed sixth album, reputation, broke multiple records within hours of its release. With over 10 million streams, it is the most-streamed song in a one-day period ever, the lyric video for "Look What You Made Me Do" broke the standing record with over 19 million views, while the music video SHATTERED the original most viewed video (28 million) record with 43.2 million views in only 24 hours.

Taylor is the only artist in history to have three albums selling over one million copies in their first week of release (2010's Speak Now, 2012's RED and 2014's 1989). Taylor is a ten-time GRAMMY winner, a singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She is the youngest person in history to win the music industry's highest honor, The GRAMMY Award for Album of the year and she is the first female solo artist to win this prestigious award twice. Rolling Stone listed Taylor as one of THE 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Time magazine has named her one the of THE 100 Most Influential People in the world and one of only eight candidates for their most prestigious honor, 2014 Person of the Year. A Brit and Emmy award winner, Taylor is Billboard's youngest-ever Woman of the Year and the only artist to have been awarded this honor twice.



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