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Red is het vierde studioalbum van de Amerikaanse singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Het album werd uitgebracht op 22 oktober 2012 door het platenlabel Big Machine Records. Volgens Swift beschrijven de liedjes op het album allemaal emoties die zij associeert met de kleur rood ("red"), zoals liefde, frustratie, jaloezie en verwarring.

Het album werd genomineerd voor twee Grammy Awards (Album of the Year en Best Country Album). Daarnaast wisten twee singles van Red de Nederlandse Top 40 en de Ultratop 50 te bereiken, namelijk "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" en "I Knew You Were Trouble". Daarmee waren de singles van Red succesvoller in Nederland en Vlaanderen dan die van haar eerdere albums.

Op 12 november 2021 verscheen een heropname van Red (inclusief een aantal nieuwe nummers) onder de naam Red (Taylor's Version). Swift nam het album opnieuw op naar aanleiding van haar conflict met haar voormalige platenlabel Big Machine. Red (Taylor's Version) is de tweede heropname die Swift uitbrengt, na Fearless (Taylor's Version) eerder in 2021.

Red is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records. Swift designated Red as a breakup album and her last to be promoted as country music.

To convey the complex and conflicting feelings ensuing from lost love through music, Swift engaged new producers to experiment with styles other than the country pop sound of her past albums. She produced the majority of Red with her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman and the rest with Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, and Butch Walker. The album incorporates styles of pop, rock, folk, and country, composed of acoustic instruments, electronic synths, and drum machines. Initial reviews mostly praised Swift's songwriting for its emotional exploration and engagement, but critics deemed the production inconsistent and questioned her identity as a country artist.

Swift supported Red with the Red Tour (2013–2014). The singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" peaked at numbers one and two on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 on charts worldwide. Red topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it spent seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 and made Swift the first artist since the Beatles to have three albums each with at least six weeks at number one on that chart. The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album seven-times platinum for surpassing seven million album-equivalent units.

Red was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Association Awards, and Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. Retrospectively, critics have regarded Red as a career-defining work that showcased her evolved songcraft and as a transitional album bridging her country roots to mainstream pop. Many publications ranked it among the best albums of the 2010s decade, and Rolling Stone placed it at number 99 on their 2023 revision of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Following a 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the album and released it as Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021.