Taylor Swift buys back rights to all master recordings - but it's bad news for Reputation fans

Taylor Swift has bought back all the rights to her master recordings - but has suggested she won't be re-releasing her Reputation album.

"All the music I've ever made now belongs to me," the star announced on her official website.

"I've been bursting tears of joy... ever since I found out this is really happening."2

The popstar had originally lost the rights to her first six albums in 2019 when her first record label, Big Machine, sold them to music executive Scooter Braun.

Swift said she was not given the opportunity to buy her work outright, and so had instead been meticulously re-recording them, releasing four "Taylor's Version" albums.

Just her debut album and Reputation remain to be re-released.

Braun later sold his stake in her albums to Shamrock Holdings, a Los Angeles investment fund.

Swift said she was "forever grateful" to Shamrock for allowing her to buy the rights to her music back.

On the release of Reputation she said she had "not even re-recorded a quarter of it", and while she said that the album and her debut album could "have their time to re-emerge when the time is right", she said: "If it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have."

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