11 NJ Targets open at midnight for Swift’s new album

'The Life of a Showgirl' will keep locations open for the 12 a.m. release

Kimberly Redmond//September 8, 2025//

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift wears custom lace-up Victorian boot designed by Louboutin during The Tortured Poets Department era of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. - PROVIDED BY TARGET

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift wears custom lace-up Victorian boot designed by Louboutin during The Tortured Poets Department era of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour. - PROVIDED BY TARGET

11 NJ Targets open at midnight for Swift’s new album

'The Life of a Showgirl' will keep locations open for the 12 a.m. release

Kimberly Redmond//September 8, 2025//

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Of the 500 stores nationwide that will open Oct. 3 at midnight for the release of ‘s highly anticipated 12th studio album, about a dozen in New Jersey will flip the lights on for fans.

In a Sept. 7 announcement, the big box retailer said it will sell “The Life of a Showgirl” in three Target exclusive edition CDs featuring unique artwork and bonus content, as well as the standard edition.

Versions are also available for pre-order online here.

According to Target, there is a limit of four CDs per customer, while supplies last.

Within New Jersey, the following Target locations will have a midnight release:

  • Bridgewater
  • Clifton
  • Deptford
  • Jersey City
  • Mantua
  • Middletown
  • Mount Laurel
  • Princeton
  • Riverdale
  • Rockaway
  • Toms River

Variety noted that participating stores will stay open past normal operating hours and then make the stock available at midnight.

This isn’t the first time Swift and Target have teamed up. Last year, the two partnered for exclusive releases of “The Tortured Poets Department” album and a hardcover book featuring over 500 images from Swift’s The Eras Tour.

According to Target, the album was the chain’s largest pre-order in history — and the book was the highest selling new book release of the year.

Swift officially announced details about “The Life of a Showgirl” in an Aug. 12 appearance on “New Heights,” a podcast hosted by her fiancé, Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce.

“It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life,” Swift said. “This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time.”