Taylor Swift has regained management over her complete physique of labor.
In a prolonged notice posted to her official web site on Friday, Swift introduced: “All the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
“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 addressed followers within the put up. “The most effective issues which have ever been mine … lastly truly are.”
The pop star stated she bought her catalog of recordings — initially launched by Huge Machine Information — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital. She didn’t disclose the quantity.
“We’re thrilled with this end result and are so completely satisfied for Taylor,” Shamrock Capital stated in a press release.
Over the previous few years, Swift has been re-recording and releasing her first six albums in an try and regain management of her music.
The sequence was instigated by music supervisor Scooter Braun’s buy and sale of her early catalog 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.
In between re-recordings, she has launched new music, together with final 12 months’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” introduced throughout the 2024 Grammys and launched throughout her record-breaking tour.
Up to now, there have been 4 re-recorded albums, starting with “Fearless (Taylor’s Model)” and “Crimson (Taylor’s Model)” in 2021. All 4 have been huge business and cultural successes, each debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Swift’s final re-recording, “1989 (Taylor’s Model),” arrived in October 2023, simply 4 months after the discharge of “Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model).” That was the identical 12 months Swift claimed the file for the girl with the most No. 1 albums in historical past.
Followers have theorized that “Fame (Taylor’s Model)” can be subsequent: On Might 19, “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model)” aired almost in full throughout the opening scene of a Season 6 episode of “The Handmaid’s Story.” Previous to that, the tune 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 season I Turned Fairly.”
However in line with the notice shared Friday, Swift says she hasn’t “even re-recorded 1 / 4 of it.”
She did say, nonetheless, that she has fully rerecorded her self-titled debut album “and I actually love the way it sounds now.”
Swift writes that each her self-titled debut and “Fame (Taylor’s Model)” “can nonetheless have their moments to re-emerge when the time is correct.”
A consultant for Swift didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
This story was initially featured on Fortune.com
