Taylor Swift buys back the ownership of her master recordings, writes "I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen"

Singer and songwriter Taylor Swift has recently won all her master recordings back from Shamrock Capital Advisors after a years-long ownership battle. She has recently taken to her social media to tease the announcement and send letters to her fans expressing her excitement.

Taylor shared photos of herself sitting with her albums on Instagram. In one of the photos, the singer can be seen cheering herself up after the major victory. Alongside the photos, she penned in the caption, “You belong with me.” She added, “Letter on my site :).”

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She wrote, “I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and prayed away for a chance to get to tell you this news. All the times I was thisssss close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through.”

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She added, “I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now. I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs to me.”

However, Taylor didn’t disclose the value of the deal, but it encompasses the rights to her first six albums, including her music, videos, concert films, and iconography.

She noted that owning back her own records was her greatest dream and penned, “To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty casual about it.”

She then addressed her fans in the letter and continued, “To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four albums, calling them Taylor’s Versions. The passionate support you showed those albums and the success you found giving The Eras Tour into why I was able to buy back my music.”

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She added, “I can’t thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but never owned until now. All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright.”

Taylor Swift was entangled in a legal battle for the rights to her first six albums. The legal dispute gained public attention in 2019 when Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine, the label that signed Swift in 2005, sparking a highly publicized controversy.

Following the public criticism, Braun sold her master recording rights to Shamrock in 2020, for more than $300 million—about the amount he had spent to acquire the entire label the year prior.