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 govt Scooter Braun bought them to the corporate.
“All I’ve ever needed was the chance to work exhausting sufficient to have the ability to at some point buy my music outright with no strings hooked up, no partnership, with full autonomy,” Swift says. “I can be ceaselessly grateful to everybody at Shamrock Capital for being the primary folks to ever provide this to me.”
Swift says she was in a position to 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 pictures, 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 Huge Machine Label Group in 2019, which Swift on the time known as her “worst case scenario.” Swift mentioned that “for years” she had “requested” and “pleaded” for “an opportunity to personal my work,” however Huge Machine mentioned 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.
“I’m glad for her,” Braun says in an announcement.
Replace, Might thirtieth: Added assertion from Scooter Braun.