Taylor Swift regains control of her music, buying back first 6 albums

Maria Sherman · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 30, 2025 1:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Taylor Swift has regained power implicit her full assemblage of work.

In a lengthy enactment posted to her authoritative website connected Friday, Swift announced: "All of the euphony I've ever made present belongs to me."

"I can't convey you capable for helping to reunite maine with this creation that I person dedicated my beingness to, but person ne'er owned until now," Swift said, addressing her fans successful the post. "The champion things that person ever been mine... finally really are."

The popular prima said she purchased her catalogue of recordings — originally released done Big Machine Records — from their astir caller owner, the backstage equity steadfast Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount.

"We are thrilled with this result and are truthful blessed for Taylor," Shamrock Capital said successful a statement.

'Taylor's Version'

Over the past fewer years, Swift has been re-recording and releasing her archetypal six albums successful an effort to regain power of her music. She began that project after Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings purchased Big Machine Records successful 2019, which owned the masters of those aboriginal albums. It reignited a years-long feud betwixt Braun and Swift, adjacent aft Ithaca sold her catalogue connected to Shamrock for a reported $300 cardinal US.

"This is my worst lawsuit scenario," Swift wrote of the woody astatine the time. "My philharmonic bequest is astir to prevarication successful the hands of idiosyncratic who tried to dismantle it." 

She had antecedently accused Braun of harassing and bullying her for years, peculiarly alongside her long-running feud with rapper Ye.

Following the Shamrock sale, Swift continued to prosecute strategies to re-obtain that catalogue, portion besides releasing her ain versions of those aboriginal songs — the masters of which she past owned. But erstwhile "Taylor's Version" releases person been much than accepted re-recordings, arriving with caller "from the vault" music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen knowing of her work.

Braun, present CEO of Hybe America, told the Hollywood Reporter Friday "I americium blessed for her," successful effect to the news.

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In betwixt re-recordings, she has released caller music, including past year's The Tortured Poets Department, announced during the 2024 Grammys and released during her record-breaking tour.

So far, determination person been 4 re-recorded albums, opening with Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021. All 4 person been monolithic commercialized and taste successes, each 1 debuting astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200.

Swift's past re-recording, 1989 (Taylor's Version), arrived successful October 2023, conscionable 4 months aft the merchandise of Speak Now (Taylor's Version). That was the aforesaid twelvemonth Swift claimed the grounds for the pistillate with the astir No. 1 albums successful history.

Fans person theorized that Reputation (Taylor's Version) would beryllium next: On May 19, Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version) aired astir successful afloat during the opening country of a Season 6 occurrence of The Handmaid's Tale. 

Prior to that, the opus was teased successful 2023's Prime Video limited-series thriller Wilderness and successful Apple TV+'s The Dynasty: New England Patriots in 2024. Also successful 2023, she contributed Delicate (Taylor's Version) to Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty.

But according to the enactment shared Friday, Swift says she hasn't "even re-recorded a 4th of it."

She did say, however, that she has wholly rerecorded her self-titled debut medium "and I truly emotion however it sounds now."

Swift writes that some her self-titled debut and Reputation (Taylor's Version) "can inactive person their moments to re-emerge erstwhile the clip is right."

Representatives for Swift and Hybe did not instantly respond to petition for comment.