Taylor Swift now owns “the entire music I’ve ever made,” she says in a letter posted on her website on Friday. Swift has bought the masters of her first six albums again from Shamrock Capital, which owned them after leisure government Scooter Braun bought them to the corporate.
“All I’ve ever wished was the chance to work arduous sufficient to have the ability to in the future buy my music outright with no strings connected, no partnership, with full autonomy,” Swift says. “I will likely be eternally grateful to everybody at Shamrock Capital for being the primary individuals to ever provide this to me.”
Swift says she was capable of purchase again the music due to the assist for her re-recorded Taylor’s Variations albums and for The Eras Tour concerts. She additionally now owns her music movies, live performance movies, album artwork and images, and unreleased songs. “I can’t 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 says.
Braun took possession of the masters when he acquired The Large Machine Label Group in 2019, which Swift on the time referred to as her “worst case scenario.” Swift stated that “for years” she had “requested” and “pleaded” for “an opportunity to personal my work,” however Large Machine stated that she may “earn” one album again for every new one she accomplished.
Braun bought the masters to Shamrock Capital in 2020 for round $360 million, which is “comparatively shut” to what Swift paid to purchase them again, Billboard reports.