3 d. ago Taylor Swift fans are convinced her ex Joe Alwyn silently supported her amid battle to buy back her masters

Taylor Swift fans think her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn subtly showed support for her while she was in the midst of buying back her music empire. 

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6 d. ago ‘Feels bigger than herself’: the importance of Taylor Swift’s latest victory

World’s most famous pop star has finally bought back rights to her master recordings, a win for her but also a potentially major win for the industryIt goes without saying, but Taylor Swift has scored a lot of victories in the past few years. There was, first and foremost, the blockbuster Eras Tour, which became the bestselling concert tour of all time and a certifiable cultural era in itself. She released the bestselling concert film of all time, with a distribution model that upended the theatrical market. There was yet another album of the year Grammy. She turned the Super Bowl into the ultimate rom-com. Even with mediocre critical reviews, her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, set more streaming records than I can count.All of these were beyond impressive, if at times threatening overexposure and annoyingly at odds with her self-styled narrative as an underdog – the emotionally astute lyricist battling against a sliding scale of villains, from careless boys, bitc...

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6 d. ago Taylor Swift finally buys the rights to all her music in 'dream come true'

Swifties will be glad to hear that Taylor's 'greatest dream' of buying the rights to her music has come true at long last.

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6 d. ago Taylor Swift has regained control of her music, buys back first 6 albums

Taylor Swift says she’s has regained control over her entire body of work

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6 d. ago Taylor Swift admits 'it's a dream come true' after buying rights to all music

Taylor Swift has shared a huge announcement with fans, issuing a lengthy statement through her website in which she described the news as her 'greatest dream come true'

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6 d. ago Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums

After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first timeTaylor Swift has bought back the master recordings to her first six albums, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time. “I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away,” she wrote in a letter to fans. “But that’s all in the past now. All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”She originally lost the rights in 2019 when her first record label, Big Machine, sold them to music executive Scooter Braun. Swift described the sale to Braun as her “worst case scenario”, and said she had not been given the opportunity to buy her work outright, but to “earn” one album back for each new album she recorded for the label. Her subsequent albums, from 2019’s Lover onwards, were released on Republic, with Swift retaining the rights to the master recordi...

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift has the chance to reclaim her original masters with the help of an unlikely source

Pop superstar has spent years trying to gain ownership of the original recordings of her first six albums

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