Swift regains her recordings

The lack of ownership of her own recordings has been in her craw since her then label, Big Machine, sold her masters to Scooter Braun in 2019. He then sold them to Shamrock Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm. Shamrock, in turn, sold Swift her masters. She did not disclose the sum that she paid.

Swift posted on Instagram a picture of herself sitting the floor with the six albums surround her in a circle with the caption, "You belong with me," Swift posed with the original album covers of her first six albums: "Taylor Swift," "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red," "1989" and "Reputation."

Swift said she also now owned all of her music videos, concert films, album art and photography and unreleased songs.

"I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned until now," she wrote to fans in a letter on her website. "The best things that have ever been mine ... finally actually are."

Swift was so upset with the sales that she re-recorded four of the albums and released them as "Taylor's Version" with additional material on them. She disclosed in a letter that she, in fact, has also worked on re-recording the final two albums – her self-titled debut and "Reputation."

In 2018, Swift signed a new record deal with Republic Records, part of Universal Music Group. This time, she made she owned the maters for the albums she recorded: "Lover" (2019), "Folklore" (2020), "Evermore" (2020), "Midnights" (2022) and "The Tortured Poets Department" from 2024.

Swift said her hugely successful Eras Tour enabled her to buy back the rights to her recordings.