Taylor Swift regains management of her music, buys again first six albums

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Taylor Swift has regained management over her complete physique of labor. In a prolonged observe posted to her official web site on Friday (Could 30, 2025), Swift introduced: “All the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”

The pop star stated she bought her catalog of recordings — initially launched by means of Massive Machine Data — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the personal fairness agency Shamrock Capital. She didn’t disclose the quantity.

In recent times, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six albums in an try and regain management of her music.

“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.”

“We’re thrilled with this final result and are so joyful for Taylor,” Shamrock Capital stated in a press release.

Swift’s rerecordings had been instigated by Hybe America CEO 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 standard re-recordings, arriving with new “from the vault” music, Easter eggs and visuals that deepen understanding of her work.

“I’m joyful for her,” Braun stated Friday (Could 30, 2025).

She has additionally launched new music, together with final yr’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” introduced in the course of the 2024 Grammys and launched throughout her record-breaking tour.

To date, there have been 4 rerecorded albums, starting with “Fearless (Taylor’s Model)” and “Pink (Taylor’s Model)” in 2021. All 4 have been large industrial and cultural successes, every one debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Swift’s final rerecording, “1989 (Taylor’s Model),” arrived in October 2023, simply 4 months after the discharge of “Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model).” That was the identical yr Swift claimed the report for the lady with probably the most No. 1 albums in historical past.

Followers have theorized that “Repute (Taylor’s Model)” can be subsequent: On Could 19, “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Model)” aired practically in full in the course of the opening scene of a Season 6 episode of “The Handmaid’s Story.” Previous to that, the track 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 observe shared Friday (Could 30, 2025), Swift says she hasn’t “even rerecorded 1 / 4 of it.”

She did say, nevertheless, that she has utterly rerecorded her self-titled debut album “and I actually love the way it sounds now.”

Swift writes that each her self-titled debut and “Repute (Taylor’s Model)” “can nonetheless have their moments to reemerge when the time is true.”

Representatives for Swift and HYBE didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.