Taylor Swift's reputation ranked: the numbers behind the album

Following news that Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, her 2017 LP reputation has re-entered the Top 10 at Number 7.

That's a leap of 63 places week-on-week and the album's highest Official Albums Chart position since January 2018.

When Scooter Braun acquired the rights to Taylor's first six albums in 2019, she began a long-term project to re-record each album in turn so she would own the rights to the new recordings.

So far, she has released re-recorded "Taylor's Versions" of four of those albums: Fearless, Red, Speak Now and 1989. Each of the re-recorded albums peaked at Number 1 on the UK's Official Albums Chart, where Taylor is now the female solo artist with the most chart-topping albums.

Fans had expected reputation (Taylor's Version) to be next, but in last week's announcement, she told fans she hadn't "even re-recorded a quarter of" the album.

"The reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief," she explained.

So, fans have shown their support by giving the original album – the spikiest and most combative of Taylor's career – another burst of Official Charts glory.

To celebrate its return to the Top 10, we're ranking every song on reputation according to its Official UK chart units.

But before we count down all 15, let's take a closer look at the Top 5.

5. Getaway Car

Official Singles Chart peak: N/A
Total UK chart units: 698,000

Though it was only released as a single in Australia and New Zealand, this pulsing synth-pop song has become a real fan favourite. Taylor's typically clever lyrics compare a rebound relationship to a getaway car, complete with references to Bonnie and Clyde and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Honestly, don't be surprised if Getaway Car eventually becomes a fan-driven Official Charts hit in the fashion of Cruel Summer.

4. Delicate

Official Singles Chart peak: Number 45
Total UK chart units: 1 million

This mellow electro bop supplies one of the album's softer an more vulnerable moments. "My reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me," Taylor sings at the start, pondering whether her new relationship is destined to last. She said at the time that Delicate hinges on the question: “Could something fake, like your reputation, affect something real, like somebody getting to know you?”

3. ...Ready for It?

Official Singles Chart peak: Number 7
Total UK chart units: 1.09 million

Released as the album's second single, Ready for It? is a swaggering banger on which Taylor sings about finding a partner in crime – perhaps literally. "And he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor," she raps, comparing their love affair to Hollywood icons Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Ready for It? served as the opening song on Taylor's Reputation Stadium Tour and cemented its place in her canon by becoming a mainstay on The Eras Tour. 

2. Don't Blame Me

Official Singles Chart peak: Number 77
Total UK chart units: 1.13 million

This gospel-flecked stomper was never released as a single, but entered the Official Singles Chart in 2022 after gaining traction on TikTok. Taylor subsequently performed it regularly on The Eras Tour. An especially dark moment on Taylor's spikiest record to date, it finds her comparing her lover to a drug she'll be "using for the rest of my life".

1. Look What You Made Me Do

Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 1.58 million

Taylor ushered in the reputation era with this snarling, snarky synth-pop banger, which features an interpolation from Right Said Fred's 1991 hit I'm Too Sexy. At this point, it was the darkest and most combative moment of her career – "I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now," she deadpans. "Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead." But fans really rallied behind her, and Look What You Made Me Do became her first-ever UK Number 1 single.

The Official biggest songs on Taylor Swift's reputation album ranked: