Taylor Swift buys back rights to all master recordings

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." The pop star 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. After she learned Braun had acquired her musical catalogue, she opened up about it in a lengthy Tumblr post, blaming him for being complicit in Kanye West's "incessant, manipulative bullying" of her.

Swift said she was not given the opportunity to buy her work outright, and so, in a bid to diminish the value of the master tapes, she set about re-recording them. She had re-released four "Taylor's Version" albums to date.

Just her self-titled debut album and Reputation remained. Braun later sold his stake in her albums to Shamrock Holdings, a Los Angeles investment fund, in a deal reported to be worth £222 million.

It is not known how much Swift paid Shamrock to re-acquire the rights to her songs. Swift said she was "forever grateful" to Shamrock for allowing her to buy the rights to her music back.

"This was a business deal to them, but I really felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories and my sweat and my handwriting and my decades of dreams," Swift wrote on her website. "I am endlessly thankful.

My first tattoo might just be a huge shamrock in the middle of my forehead." What it means for Reputation fans Just two albums remained to be re-released by Swift - her self-titled debut album and Reputation. The latter was a particularly strong source of speculation among fans, who would look for clues in her outfits during her record-breaking Era's tour.

But this announcement could spell the end of that. "Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it," Swift said.

She said Reputation was "so specific" to a certain time in her life, that she kept hitting a block when she tried to re-record it. She also said she felt it was the first album she could not improve by re-recording it.

Debut has been re-recorded, with Swift saying she "loves how it sounds now". Read more about Taylor Swift:Swift's final London show was the 'best'The impact of the 'excruciating' Era's tourHer new chart record But both albums could still "re-emerge when the time is right.