Taylor Swift is already owned by her entire career: the artist buys the rights of her first six albums
15 years ago I sang it, today it makes more sense than ever. “It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age ” (“It was the end of a decade, but the beginning of an era”), sang Taylor Swift in Long livesong that closed his third studio album, Speak Now (2010). They have not had to spend ten years, but six. This Friday, the 35 -year -old singer has made public that He has recovered the rights of his first six albums, Rights he lost in 2019 after Big Machine Records, the seal in which Swift began to develop his career in 2005, sold the artist’s catalog to Shamrock Capital for 300 million dollars (today, about 260 million euros to change).
“I can finally say these words: All the music that I have composed now belongs to me “Swift announced in a letter he has published on his website. Since he lost his rights, the winning singer of 14 Grammy Awards had been Re -regret your albums under the concept of (Taylor’s version). In these six years he has published four of the six: Fearless (2021), Red (2021), Speak Now (2023) and 1989 (2023). “All my musical videos, all homemade movies, memories and photographs, unpublished songs, every small detail, magic, madness, every symbol, The work of my whole life”, Added in the extensive letter.
This announcement comes just when one year is turned of the two concerts offered at Santiago Bernabéu as part of the multimillionaire tour The Eras Tourwhere he interpreted precisely these songs, which have marked his life and his career as an artist. “My fans know how important it has been for me, so much that I re -recorded and meticulously published four of my albumscalling them Taylor’s version. The passionate support that showed those albums and the success story in which they turned The Eras Tour They allowed me to repurify my music, ”he says. Only with the tour, formed by 149 concertswith three hours of Perfomance By show with 44 songs, he supposed the singer income that overcame The 2,000 million dollars (almost 1.9 billion euros), in addition to having had more than 10 million viewersas confirmed The New York Times and representative sources of the singer herself.
The composer also thanked Shamrock capitalthe sale of almost 15 years of their work. “I will be eternally grateful to everyone in Shamrock Capital for being the first to offer me this. They have managed each interaction with honesty, justice and respect. For them it was a business, but I felt that they saw it as what it was for me: my memories, my sweat, my lyrics and my decades of dreams. I am infinitely grateful. ” Scooter Braunentrepreneur and manager of artists such as Justin Bieber or Ariana Grande, acquired in 2019 the rights of the first Swift albums when he bought his old record, Big Machine Records, Without the artist’s consent, To sell them to the aforementioned company. After this, he was welcomed by Universal Music Group and with them he has distributed five more albums: LOVER (2019), folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), Midnights (2022) and The tortured poets department (2024).
The figure for which Swift would have bought their rights has not transcended, although portals such as Page Six have pointed out that the estimated price would be between 600 million and 1 billion dollars.
And who is a swift fan, knows it. Fans literally have waiting for Reputation (Taylor’s version) See the light. Something that, to despair of many, never arrived. In the letter he wanted to remove the thorn that pursued his followers and has confirmed that the album, For now, it will not come to light. “Reputation I was so specific to that time of my life that I ran into a dead point when I tried Kim Kardashian and Kanye West– He is the only one of the first six who thought that “it could not be improved by removing it. Neither music, nor photos, nor videos. So I was postponing it.” However, he has not ruled out not to publish it.
On the other hand, Taylor Swiftthe album cutting debut completely country that published In 2006, the genre that saw it born until evolving and experimenting, yes It is totally re -registered. “I have already completely re -recorded my debut album, and I love how it sounds now,” he has detailed, but he added that at the moment they will not see the light, and if they do it will be because the fans are “exciting“.” Those two albums can still have their moments to resurface when it is the right time, if it is something that excites you. But if it happens, it will not be for sadness or nostalgia of what I would like to have. Now it will simply be a celebration. ”
When in 2019 he announced that he would re -record his albums, he became a reference. The artists began to become aware of the importance of owning their own work: Kesha, The Weekend or Shakira. Now is his turn. Taylor Swift is again owned by herself.
