After years of public struggle and strategic regrabations, Taylor Swift finally achieved what seemed unattainable: he recovered the rights of the original masters of his first six albums, those who marked their takeoff in the music industry. The news was known this Friday and was announced by the artist herself through a shared letter on her social networks.
“I am literally crying. This is one of the most important and happy moments of my life,” Swift wrote, excited to have recovered the total property of albums such as Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989 and reputation. All of them were originally published between 2006 and 2017 under the Big Machine Records label, today at the center of a battle that redefined the rules of the record business.
The conflict began in 2019, when producer Scooter Braun bought Big Machine and, with this, the control of the artist’s masters was made without her consent. Swift publicly denounced the operation, accused abuse and promised that he would not rest until he recovers his rights. In response, it launched the versions “Taylor’s version” of each album, which not only swept sales and reproductions, but also transformed into a symbol of resistance and creative autonomy.
The final agreement was completed with the Shamrock Capital Investment Fund, which had acquired the rights to Braun. Although the exact amount was not revealed, US media estimate that the operation was around 300 million dollars. The new contract gives Swift the complete control not only of music, but also of video clips, live recordings and unpublished material of that stage.
“Thank you for accompanying me in this crusade. Having re -recorded every album was a way to survive pain and make art. But this … this is to close the circle,” he wrote in his letter.
