In a prolonged word posted to her official web site on Friday, Swift introduced: “The entire music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
The pop star stated she bought her catalogue of recordings — initially launched via Massive Machine Data — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the non-public fairness agency Shamrock Capital. She didn’t disclose the quantity.
Lately, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six albums in an try and regain management of her music.
“I can not thanks sufficient for serving to to reunite me with this artwork that I’ve devoted my life to, however have by no means owned till now,” Swift addressed followers within the publish.
“The very best issues which have ever been mine … lastly truly are.”
“We’re thrilled with this end result and are so completely happy for Taylor,” Shamrock Capital stated in a press release.
Swift’s rerecordings had been instigated by Hybe America CEO Scooter Braun’s buy and sale of her early catalogue and represents Swift’s effort to manage her personal songs and the way they’re used.
Earlier Taylor’s Model releases have been greater than typical re-recordings, arriving with new “from the vault” music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.
She has additionally launched new music, together with final yr’s The Tortured Poets Division, introduced in the course of the 2024 Grammys and launched throughout her record-breaking tour.
To date, there have been 4 rerecorded albums, starting with Fearless (Taylor’s Model) and Purple (Taylor’s Model) in 2021. All 4 have been huge business and cultural successes, every one debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Swift’s final rerecording, 1989 (Taylor’s Model), arrived in October 2023, simply 4 months after the discharge of Converse Now (Taylor’s Model). That was the identical yr Swift claimed the document for the girl with essentially the most No. 1 albums in historical past.
Followers have theorised that Repute (Taylor’s Model) can be subsequent: On Might 19, Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model) aired almost in full in the course of the opening scene of a Season 6 episode of The Handmaid’s Story.
Previous to that, the track was teased in 2023’s Prime Video limited-series thriller Wilderness and in Apple TV+’s The Dynasty: New England Patriots in 2024.
Additionally in 2023, she contributed Delicate (Taylor’s Model) to Prime Video’s The Summer time I Turned Fairly.
However in line with the word shared Friday, Swift says she hasn’t “even rerecorded 1 / 4 of it.”
She did say, nevertheless, that she has utterly rerecorded her self-titled debut album “and I actually love the way it sounds now.”
Swift writes that each her self-titled debut and Repute (Taylor’s Model) “can nonetheless have their moments to reemerge when the time is correct.”
Representatives for Swift, HYBE or Braun didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
