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Taylor Swift’s Catalog Victory: Breaking Down Her Six-Year Battle to Own Her Music
Taylor Swift's long, public and very personal battle to own the rights to her first six albums has come to a happy ending. Here's a concise history.
The long and convoluted saga began nearly six years ago, in the early hours of June 30, 2019, when Braun announced that his Ithaca Holdings had agreed to acquire Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group — and the recorded-music rights to Swift’s first six albums — along with the company’s publishing operation, for around $300 million. As the pandemic set in the following year, the situation reached a sort of cold-war status, until Nov. 1, 2020, when Swift was legally clear to begin re-recording her earlier albums. While the two continued to trade barbs and conflicting statements over the ensuing years, Swift’s re-recordings, combined with the five new albums she has released since leaving Big Machine, have played a huge role in amplifying her already-world-dominating popularity and leading her to billionaire status.
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