The fourth album from six-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift is set for release on October 22, 2012. Red features 16 tracks and unlike her most recent album, Speak Now, Swift actually had co-writers involved on this album.

“For the last two years, I’ve been working on an album called Red,” said Swift. “I called it Red because of the tumultuous, crazy adventures in love and loss that it chronicles. In my mind, when you experience love that’s fast-paced and out of control and mixes infatuation, jealousy, frustration, miscommunication, and all of those lovely emotions…in retrospect, it all looks red.”

Red‘s first single is “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which she co-wrote with Max Martin and Shellback), now available on iTunes and other digital outlets.

Watch Taylor Swift’s YouTube chat which includes the announcement of Red‘s release date:

Taylor Swift Facts:

– Youngest singer in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year;

– Speak Now is on Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list;

– Sold more than 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads;

– Speak Now is one of only 17 albums in history to sell more than 1 million copies in a single week;

– She’s the top-selling digital artist in country music history;

– and Guinness Book of World Records record-holder for the Fastest Selling Digital Album by a Female Artist for Speak Now