Taylor Swift has purchased again her grasp recordings. She made the announcement with a note on her website, sharing fortunately, “The entire music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.” It’s the primary time she has each owned the rights to all of her personal music. Discover the total assertion under.
Infamously, in 2019, Scooter Braun’s media holding firm, Ithaca Holdings LLC, acquired Massive Machine Label Group. With that acquisition got here the rights to Swift’s first six studio albums. Swift denounced the acquisition and criticized Braun and his “bullying.” She additionally mentioned, “Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a chance to purchase. Primarily, my musical legacy is about to lie within the palms of somebody who tried to dismantle it.”
Following the acquisition, Swift—who left Massive Machine Label Group in 2018 to signal a cope with Common Music Group—pledged to re-record her albums in order that she might personal the brand new grasp recordings. She made it two-thirds of the best way by way of, releasing new editions of Fearless, Red, Speak Now, and 1989. In line with her announcement, she completed the brand new model of her self-titled debut, however shouldn’t be but positive when it might be launched. She additionally mentioned she didn’t but end re-recording Reputation—a re-recorded album that was broadly anticipated to come back out quickly because of her previewing of “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version).”
Earlier than Swift launched any of her Taylor’s Model albums, nonetheless, Braun and his firm sold the musician’s masters to the Los Angeles funding agency Shamrock Capitol. On the time of the acquisition, Shamrock mentioned, “Taylor Swift is a transcendent artist with a timeless catalog. We made this funding as a result of we imagine within the immense worth and alternative that comes together with her work.”
In her assertion at this time, Swift thanked “everybody at Shamrock Capital for being the primary individuals to ever supply this to me. The way in which they’ve dealt with each interplay we’ve had has been sincere, truthful, and respectful.”
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