How Much Did Taylor Swift Really Pay for Her Masters?

Taylor Swift simply reclaimed her legacy and her followers and well-known mates are celebrating.

The worldwide celebrity, who formally joined the billionaire membership final yr, introduced Friday that she has efficiently bought the grasp recordings of her first six studio albums.

The emotional milestone marks the top of an extended and really public battle over possession of her early music, one thing Taylor Swift has been open about over time.

Regardless of experiences that she paid over a billion {dollars} to retrieve possession of her music, a supply informed PEOPLE Magazine, “the rumored value vary that was reported is extremely inaccurate.”

In accordance with a separate supply who spoke to Billboard, Swift paid an estimated $360 million to purchase the rights from Shamrock Capital, the non-public fairness agency that beforehand bought her catalog from music supervisor Scooter Braun in 2020. The quantity is alleged to be near what Shamrock initially paid for the rights after Braun’s firm, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Swift’s former label Huge Machine Information in 2019, and with it, her total catalog up via “Repute.”

On the time, Swift expressed her heartbreak and frustration, calling Braun a “bully” and lamenting that she was by no means provided a good probability to purchase again her life’s work.

“Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a chance to purchase,” she stated in a now-famous Tumblr put up. The ordeal led her to start re-recording and releasing her earlier albums as “Taylor’s Variations” in 2021, a transfer that followers praised as each sensible and empowering.

At the moment, neither Swift nor Shamrock Capital has but to reveal the true value of the sale.

On Friday, the 14-time Grammy winner took to her website to share the information she by no means thought she’d have the ability to say. The music she spent many years creating is lastly hers.

“I’m making an attempt to collect my ideas into one thing coherent, however proper now my thoughts is only a slideshow,” Swift started in a heartfelt, handwritten-style message to followers. “A flashback sequence of on a regular basis I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for an opportunity to get to inform this information. All of the occasions I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall via.”

She continued, “I nearly stopped considering it may ever occur, after 20 years of getting the carrot dangled after which yanked away. However that’s all up to now now.”

Swift, whose “Eras Tour” utterly shattered information and whose newest album “The Tortured Poets Division” debuted at No. 1, stated the second has introduced her to tears, in one of the simplest ways potential.

“I’ve been bursting into tears of pleasure at random intervals ever since I came upon that that is actually occurring,” she shared. “I actually get to say these phrases: The entire music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me.”

The acquisition consists of her self-titled debut (“Taylor Swift”) and fan-favorite albums like “Fearless,” “Converse Now,” “Crimson,” “1989,” and “Repute,”  the very works that launched her into superstardom.

Taylor Swift is feeling the love, and it’s coming from her closest mates.

“YES YOU DID THAT TAY!!!” Gomez wrote on her Instagram Tales alongside a heartfelt message of satisfaction. “SO proud!”

The “Single Quickly” singer has lengthy stood by Swift, and the 2 have been vocal about their friendship for years.