Taylor Swift Buys Back The Rights To Her First 6 Albums

“All of the music I’ve ever made ... now belongs ... to me,” the singer wrote, also teasing how far along she is in rerecording "Reputation" and her self-titled debut.

After years of a very public fight to reclaim her first six albums, Taylor Swift announced Friday that she was finally able to buy them back.

“All of the music I’ve ever made ... now belongs ... to me,” she wrote on her website. “And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era.”

Swift’s catalog with her first record label, Big Machine Records, was sold for $300 million in 2019 to investor Scooter Braun, who was linked to longtime Swift adversaries Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, now Ye. At the time, Swift called it “my worst-case scenario.” Braun’s Ithaca Holdings later sold the masters to Shamrock Capital, a private equity firm.

“The way they’ve handled every interaction we’ve had has been honest, fair and respectful,” she wrote of Shamrock, which sold the rights back to the singer for roughly the same amount it paid, according to Billboard.

The albums at the center of the controversy were her self-titled debut, “Fearless,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation.” Her later albums, which include “Lover,” “folklore” and “Midnights,” were recorded with her current label, Universal Music Group.