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Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters From Shamrock, Reclaiming Her First Six Albums

Taylor Swift has regained control of her master recordings years after they were sold, first to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings, then to Shamrock.

Taylor Swift announced on Friday (May 30) she has regained ownership of her master recordings from Shamrock Capital, the private equity firm that purchased them from Scooter Braun ’s Ithaca Holdings in late 2020. Over the years, Swift has very publicly declared her displeasure with the shuffling around of her masters and, in 2019, began re-recording those Big Machine albums in order to restore control over her songs from a commercial standpoint. Since leaving Big Machine in November 2018, she’s released five additional albums on Republic Records: Lover(2019), Folkore(2020), Evermore(2020), Midnights(2022) and The Tortured Poets Department(2024).

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