On Might 30, 2025, Taylor Swift introduced that she had formally purchased again the rights to her complete again catalog.
“All the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me,” she wrote on her web site, marking the top of a years-long battle over the possession of her first six albums. These information, which embody award-winning titles like *Popularity* and her self-titled debut *Taylor Swift*, had lengthy been on the heart of a high-profile business feud.
Swift repurchased the masters from Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based funding agency, for an undisclosed quantity. Whereas her most devoted followers have adopted the saga carefully, many nonetheless surprise how such a globally profitable artist misplaced the rights to her personal music within the first place.
The dispute started in 2019 when Scooter Braun’s firm, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Large Machine Label Group—Swift’s former document label. This acquisition included the grasp recordings of her first six albums: *Taylor Swift* (2006), *Fearless* (2008), *Converse Now* (2010), *Purple* (2012), *1989* (2014), and *Popularity* (2017).
By that point, Swift had already left Large Machine for Republic Information in 2018. She claimed she was not given the prospect to purchase her masters and described the sale to Braun as her “worst-case situation,” citing his alleged historical past of “manipulative bullying.”
In 2020, Braun bought the masters to Shamrock Capital for a reported $300 million, additional distancing Swift from possession of her early work.
In response, Swift took a daring and unprecedented step: she started re-recording her early albums, releasing *Taylor’s Model* editions of *Fearless*, *Purple*, *Converse Now*, and *1989* between 2021 and 2023. These new variations, which she owns outright, not solely allowed her to regain inventive and monetary management but additionally diminished the market worth of the unique masters.
Now, along with her latest acquisition from Shamrock, Swift has full management of her music catalog—each previous and new—solidifying her place not simply as a pop icon however as a robust power within the music business.
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