Taylor Swift simply advised followers she now owns the entire music she’s ever made.
However that is solely half of the story.
At her web site, Swift reveals that the deal she struck additionally consists of all of her music movies, live performance movies, album artwork, unreleased songs and anything created and launched by her or for her, ever.
“My whole life’s work,” she says, summarizing in a handwritten letter.
It ends a years-long battle for the pop star, who concedes she’d been so shut to reaching this deal on a number of events earlier than.
- Taylor Swift has been publicly battling to regain management of her masters for about 5 years.
- Since 2021, she’s been re-recording her first six albums, all recorded on Huge Machine.
- Her Lover album (2019) was her first album launched below a contract with Republic.
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“To say that is my best dream come true is definitely being fairly reserved about it,” Swift writes. “To my followers … the passionate help you confirmed these albums and the success story you turned the Eras Tour into is why I used to be capable of purchase again my music.”
The 35-year-old country-turned-pop famous person recorded 4 of her unique six albums, with plans to launch “Taylor’s Model” of her self-titled debut and Status, launched in 2017.
Her letter explains that she’s performed with the brand new model of Taylor Swift however is scuffling with Status (Taylor’s Model). The timeline for these releases could be very unclear.
“These 2 albums can nonetheless have their moments to re-emerge when the time is true,” she says, “But when it occurs, it will not be from a spot of unhappiness and eager for what I want I may have. It can simply be a celebration now.”
Taylor Swift Letter Masters
The deal ends a private {and professional} saga that discovered her music being transferred from Huge Machine to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings, after which to Shamrock Capital in a deal reported to be price $300 million.
Finally, Swift labored the deal out with Shamrock, and negotiations that went so nicely that she joked she may get a shamrock tattoo on her brow.
The Eras Tour wrapped in 2024. Since then she’s saved a comparatively low profile and has remained quiet about what’s subsequent. The value of this deal was not revealed.
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