Taylor Swift is already owning her music. The artist has bought the rights of her first six albums in which she is one of the most important events in the history of pop music. Swift, who since 2021 has placed all the record industry with its movement to re -record its original albums to own its art, closes the episode with the acquisition of all its original recordings. “I can finally say these words: all the music I have composed … now it belongs to me … to me,” the composer announced in a handwritten letter for her fans.
“I almost stopped believing that this could happen after 20 years waiting for a reward that was offered to me and then took me away. But all that is already past,” said Taylor Swift, who says that “saying that this is the dream come true of a superstar is, in fact, to fall quite short.” “All I have always wanted was the opportunity to work enough to buy and acquire my music completely,” says the artist, who has a large part of her career struggling to be the owner of her art, as confessed in 2019, when the record of her old albums denied her purchase of them.
Now, Taylor Swift has reached an agreement with the last owner of his work, Shamrock Capital, to possess all her work, as she herself tells in the letter: “All my musical videos, all homemade movies, memories and photographs, unpublished songs, every small detail, magic, madness, every symbol, the work of my whole life.” In his extensive statement, which arrives just when the first anniversary of his concerts is fulfilled at the Santiago Bernabéu, Swift Palma his happiness for how the events of the last six years resulted: the fact of not being able to buy his music led her to re -regret it, which gave life to the concept of the tour The Eras Tourthe highest grossing in history and whose profits have allowed him to recover his entire catalog.
It all started in 2005, when a sixteen -year -old girl born in Pennsylvania walked through Nashville’s recordings with a guitar and homem Country. For her, the newborn Big Machine Records, an independent stamp with which he would sign a contract would end up being interested and publish his first six albums –Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Grid, 1989 and reputation-. When that contract expired in 2018, the artist decided to sign for Republic Records, seal with which she assured to have the property of her future albums. However, to possess the rights of the previous ones, it was too late.
The war broke out at the moment when Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records, sold the label to Scooter Braun, a person of which Swift had been receiving an “incessant” and “manipulator harassment” for years, as expressed in a statement through Tumblr in the summer of 2019. Those young “with musical dreams” who were reading it “learned to protect themselves better in a negotiation.”
The turn that occurs later in history is due to the fact that the contract signed in 2005 enabled the American to recording her old music if she wanted it. While Braun possessed the rights of the recordings of those six albums, Swift retained the rights of composition for being the author of all the songs – which has allowed her to use her lyrics for what she wanted without needing anyone’s consent. Following there, the four -time Grammy winner to album of the year decided to embark on a project that had the music industry in suspense from day one.
The first song that published Taylor Swift was Love Story (Taylor’s version)one of the great country music classics. This continued the release of the album Fearless (Taylor’s version) in 2021 and Network (Taylor’s version) At the end of that same year. Since then he did nothing but start what many have defined as “La Taylormanía”, a phenomenon at the height of the Beatles. The artist sold more than one million albums only in the United States in the launch week of Midnights (2022), his tenth studio album and the first to see the light after the beginning of the era of re -records. In 2023, Swift began its mastodontic tour The Eras Tourthe greatest in the history of music, and during its course he released his albums Speak Now (Taylor’s version) and 1989 (Taylor’s version).
This is not the first time that Swift cares about the rights of artists. Your music has not been available for years on platforms streaming as Spotify due to the bad conditions they offer to singers. In addition, already in 2015, the interpreter of cardigan He sent a letter to Apple Music to express their disagreement that they did not remunerate them for the songs reproduced in the three months of the trial period. His threat to eliminate his album 1989 (2014) of the application was more than enough for Apple Music to change its payment policy the next day. (Development news)
