Taylor Swift has announced a brand-new album, The Tortured Poets Department, just two weeks before kicking off the Australian leg of her Eras Tour.

While accepting a Grammy for best pop vocal album with Midnights – her first prize of the night – the pop megastar thanked her fans and announced her next album would land on April 19.

“I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping from you for the last two years,” she said on stage, announcing the new album.

She then quickly uploaded the album cover to X (formerly Twitter) alongside a photo of lyrics that read: “And so I enter into evidence / My tarnished coat of arms / My muses, acquired like bruises / My talismans and charms / The tick, / tick, / tick, / of love bombs, / my veins of pitch-black ink.“

The plug is reminiscent of her acceptance speech at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, where she announced the release of her tenth studio album, Midnights.

The 34-year-old also made history when she won the award for best album of the year with Midnights – her second trophy of the night. She is now the only person to have won the category four times (she previously won for Fearless in 2010, 1989 in 2016, and Folklore in 2021), overtaking Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

“I would love to tell you that this is the best moment of my life, but I feel this happy when I finish a song, or when I crack the code to a bridge I love ... Or when I’m rehearsing with my dancers or my band, or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show,” Swift said on stage. “For me, the award is the work. All I want to do is keep being able to do this, I love it so much.”

Meanwhile, Kylie Minogue emerged victorious in the battle of the Aussie pop icons. The singer’s catchy hit Padam Padam beat Troye Sivan’s Rush in the pop dance recording category, officially making her a two-time Grammy winner – 20 years after winning her first golden gramophone, which she scooped in 2004 for Come into My World.