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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Swiftie independence day': New video of Taylor Swift singing ‘Getaway Car' melts fans as she reclaims control of her music legacy
After months of keeping a low profile, Taylor Swift returned to the spotlight on May 30 with major news that sent her fanbase into a frenzy. The global pop icon, who had been relatively quiet following the Super Bowl and the grueling 149-show 'Eras Tour,' broke her silence on social media to announce a career-defining achievement: she now owns all of her music. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Taylor Swift regains control of her entire music catalog, celebrates with emotional post and rare video In an emotional message posted to her platforms, Taylor Swift revealed that she has officially regained ownership of her master recordings for the albums she released between 2006 and 2017. This includes hits from albums like Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation. The move marks the end of a long legal and public battle that began when music manager Scooter Braun's company acquired the rights to her early music in 2019. 'I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,' Swift wrote. 'I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me.' She continued: 'And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life's work.' Swift reportedly bought back the rights from Shamrock Capital—the investment firm that had acquired the masters from Braun's Ithaca Holdings—for approximately $360 million, according to Billboard. Jack Antonoff shares rare video of Taylor Swift singing to mark the milestone To celebrate the moment, longtime collaborator and friend Jack Antonoff posted a short but heartwarming video on X (formerly Twitter). The clip featured Swift singing 'Getaway Car' from her 2017 Reputation album, joined by her famously elusive cat, Meredith. Antonoff captioned it: "rep forever guilt free listening!" This moment was particularly poignant for fans who had previously hesitated to stream the original Reputation due to Swift's lack of ownership. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now With the album now in her hands, 'Reputation' quickly surged to No. 1 on the iTunes charts. Swifties reacted with overwhelming joy online, flooding the comments with love. One fan wrote, 'NEW TAYLOR FOOTAGE, JACK WE LOVE YOU,' while another added, 'the concept of Meredith witnessing Swiftie independence day.' Also Read: With her entire catalog now under her control, Taylor Swift's legacy not only feels complete—it feels entirely her own.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Finally Owns All of Her Old Music
Taylor Swift has regained control of her recorded music catalog six years after her old label, Big Machine Label Group, sold it to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings. The singer announced the purchase in a lengthy letter, writing, 'All of the music I've ever made now belongs to me.' Swift announced the news this morning with a note to fans on her website, as well as a handful of photos on Instagram showing her with vinyl copies of her original records. 'You belong with me,' she captioned the post. More from Rolling Stone How Taylor Won Taylor Swift Got Her Old Albums Back, But Her Re-Records Were Still a Massive Success Taylor Swift's Vinyl Records Are on Sale After Revealing She Now Owns All of Her Music The deal, as Swift wrote, covers not just the rights to her music, including unreleased tunes, but all of her music videos, concert films, album art, photography, and unreleased songs. And there are, of course, equally meaningful, more ephemeral aspects of the deal: 'The memories. The magic. The madness,' Swift wrote. 'Every single era. My entire life's work.' It's unclear how much the deal is worth, but a source tells Rolling Stone that a previously reported price range of close to $600 million, which emerged when rumors of the sale first started circulating, was 'highly inaccurate.' In her letter, Swift said that calling regaining control over her catalog her 'greatest dream come true' was 'actually being pretty reserved about it.' She thanked her fans for all their support, suggesting that the massive success of the Eras Tour and efforts to rerecord her old albums made it possible for her to buy back her music. 'I can't thank you enough for helping to reunite me with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but never owned until now,' she wrote. 'All I've ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright with no strings attached, no partnership, with full autonomy.' Swift went on to say that she was grateful to Shamrock Capital — which has owned the rights to her catalog since 2020 — for 'being the first people to ever offer this to me,' saying their handling of the deal was 'honest, fair, and respectful.' A source close to the contract negotiations also pushed back against what was described as a 'previous false report' that there was an 'outside party' — Braun — who was encouraging the sale back to Swift. 'All rightful credit for this opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Holdings and Taylor's Nashville-based management team only,' the source said. 'Taylor now owns all of her music, and this moment finally happened in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.' Braun, in a statement shared with Rolling Stone, said, 'I am happy for her.' Ithaca's 2019 acquisition of Big Machine launched one of the most fascinating music industry sagas in recent years. While Big Machine owned the rights to music by an array of top country acts (Reba McEntire, Midland, and Sugarland, to name a few), Swift's first six albums were arguably the crown jewels, and a major reason the sale was valued at around $300 million. By the time Ithaca acquired Big Machine in summer 2019, Swift had already left the label and signed with Universal Music Group (the deal included provisions that would allow her to retain control of her master recordings). As Swift wrote in a blog post at the time, she was aware that, after leaving Big Machine, CEO Scott Borchetta was likely to sell the label — but she never expected Braun to be the buyer. In that same post, Swift highlighted her contentious history with Braun, largely via his work with her longtime foe, Kanye West. She claimed, for instance, that Braun got West and Justin Bieber 'to bully' her online amid the fracas over the leaked phone call regarding a lyric about Swift in West's song 'Famous.' Swift said she was 'sad and grossed out' over the deal, and claimed that any time Borchetta heard her speak Braun's name, 'it was when I was either crying or trying not to.' On top of all that, though, was Swift's desire to simply own the rights to her catalog. 'For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work,' she wrote. 'Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and 'earn' one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past.' Within a few months of the sale, Swift began teasing her ambitious response: She would rerecord her first six albums, thereby reclaiming some control over the music, while ostensibly diluting the value of the original recordings. In 2021, she launched her Taylor's Version campaign with rerecords of Fearless and Red, both of which were followed in 2023 by Speak Now and 1989. (Along with new versions of the original albums, the projects also included an array of previously unreleased tunes now known as 'vault tracks,' which were also rerecorded.) As for the future of that project, Swift said in her letter today that her 2006 self-titled debut has been 'completely re-recorded,' adding, 'I really love how it sounds now.' But her rerecord of 2017's Reputation is far from complete — 'I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it' — and Swift admitted she wasn't sure if she would ever finish it. 'The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it,' she said. 'All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first six that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off.' Swift went on to say she may share the unreleased Reputation 'vault tracks' at some point, but didn't give any release details. Nor did she share when the rerecord of Taylor Swift would see the light of day. 'Those 2 albums can still have their moments to reemerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about,' she said. 'But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.' Before Swift had originally begun the rerecord project though, her catalog changed hands again. Just over a year after the Big Machine acquisition, Braun's Ithaca Holdings sold Swift's catalog to Shamrock Capital in a deal reportedly worth over $300 million. Prior to that sale, Swift revealed, she'd been trying to get back control of her masters, but claimed that Braun's team was, as part of the deal, demanding she sign 'an ironclad NDA' that would prevent her from speaking negatively about him. Swift also said she considered partnering with Shamrock until she found out that the deal terms would still result in Braun profiting off her old recordings for 'a very long time.' Braun, for his part, later expressed some regret over his handling of the Big Machine acquisition and Swift catalog sale. In a 2022 interview on NPR's The Limits podcast, he admitted to coming from 'a place of arrogance,' assuming that he and Swift could work things out. 'The regret I have there is that I made the assumption that everyone, once the deal was done, was going to have a conversation with me, see my intent, see my character and say, great, let's be in business together,' he said. 'And I made that assumption with people that I didn't know.' Swift concluded her note today by mentioning a massive positive that has come from this saga: The attention it's brought to the hurdles that artists face in trying to control and own their creative output. 'Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this flight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen,' Swift wrote. 'Thank you for being curious about something that used to be thought of as too industry-centric for brand discussion. You'll never know how much it means to me that you cared. Every single bit of it counted and ended us up here.' This story was updated at 1:24 p.m. ET with a statement from Braun. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Taylor Swift Got Her Old Albums Back, But Her Re-Records Were Still a Massive Success
It was one of the most ambitious musical endeavors ever, as well as one of the most implacable and successful: Taylor Swift's decision to re-record her back catalog after Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings acquired the rights to her first six albums when it purchased Swift's old label, Big Machine. Swift began teasing this project just months after the Ithaca/Big Machine deal closed in 2019, but it wasn't until 2021 that she officially launched the Taylor's Version campaign. She went on to drop re-recorded versions of four albums, starting with Fearless and Red, followed by Speak Now and 1989. Along with completely redoing the original albums, Swift also shared new versions of previously unreleased tunes, most notably a 10-minute version of her masterpiece, 'All Too Well.' More from Rolling Stone How Taylor Won Taylor Swift's Vinyl Records Are on Sale After Revealing She Now Owns All of Her Music Taylor Swift Reveals Why She Hasn't Released 'Reputation TV' Yet: 'I Kept Hitting a Stopping Point' The logic behind the Taylor's Version campaign was bitingly to-the-point: The re-records would allow her to reclaim some control over her music, while it would also ostensibly dilute the value of the original recordings. Swift's fans, devoted as ever, greeted each release with characteristic enthusiasm, and all four Taylor's Version albums topped the Billboard 200 albums chart. On Friday, May 30, Swift announced that she'd finally bought back the rights to her first six albums from Shamrock Holdings (which acquired the catalog from Ithaca in 2020). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Swift wrote in a letter she was able to complete purchase thanks to the massive success of the Eras Tour and the 'passionate support' her fans showed the re-records. By the numbers, the success of the Taylor's Version records is remarkable. According to data from Luminate, all four albums have garnered at least two billion on-demand streams in the United States since their release, through May 22. Fearless and Speak Now accumulated 2.7 billion and 2.1 billion streams, respectively; Red has racked up 7.5 billion streams; and 1989 has led all four albums with an astonishing 8.2 billion streams. Each re-release spawned several successful singles as well, with new versions of old hits like 'Love Story,' 'Wildest Dreams,' 'Style,' and 'State of Grace' cracking the Top 20 again. While none of those re-recorded songs charted quite as high as the originals ('Love Story' peaked at Number Four, while the TV reached Number 11, for instance), Swift's re-record of her Speak Now favorite 'Enchanted' peaked way higher on the Hot 100 (Number 19) than its original ever did (Number 75). Unsurprisingly, where Swift saw the most success in terms of singles was the 'From the Vault' tracks. Her 10-minute version of 'All Too Well' from Red (Taylor's Version) went to Number One on the Hot 100, becoming the longest chart-topper in history to boot. Meanwhile, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) spawned the vault hit 'I Can See You,' which reached Number 5, while 1989 (Taylor's Version) featured several Top 10 hits: 'Is It Over Now?' (which also hit Number One), 'Now That We Don't Talk,' 'Suburban Legends,' and 'Slut!' Many of Swift's vault collaborations did well, too. 'I Bet You Think About Me' with Chris Stapleton reached Number 22; 'You All Over Me' with Maren Morris hit Number 51; and 'Nothing New' with Phoebe Bridgers peaked at Number 43. Still, the reality of Swift's massive popularity and the tremendous impact of those first six albums, meant it would be difficult for any re-record to outright match, or surpass, the success of the original records. The one that definitely achieved this feat was 1989, with Taylor's Version selling more than 1.3 million copies during its first week, just surpassing the 1.28 million the original sold during its opening week. (Ironically, the announcement of the 1989 re-record caused streams of the original album to double, with fans seeking out the LP in anticipation.) But within the context of the Taylor's Version project, the four re-releases almost certainly achieved their primary objectives: Entertain fans and keep them more engaged than they already were during a four-year span during which Swift also dropped two totally new albums — Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department — and toured the world. And, most importantly, the drew listeners away from the original recordings she did not own. Data from Luminate shows that the Taylor's Version records were a whopping success in this regard. In the period between each TV album release and May 22, only one original album outperformed the re-record: Fearless, which racked up a surprisingly impressive four billion streams compared to the 2.7 for the Taylor's Version. Meanwhile, the original Speak Now was streamed two billion times, just below the Taylor's Version tally of 2.1 billion. As for Red and 1989, the TVs were substantially more successful than the originals. After Red (Taylor's Version) arrived in late 2021, it picked up 7.5 billion streams while the original earned just 3.7 billion. And following the release of 1989 (Taylor's Version) in October 2023, it garnered 8.2 billion streams while the original picked up a comparatively measly three billion. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Hypebeast
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Taylor Swift 正式宣佈重新取回早期專輯母帶版權
本文看點 Taylor Swift正式宣布已買回其前六張錄音室專輯母帶的所有權，象徵著藝術家自主權的一次重大勝利，這個令人振奮的消息也代表著她多年來公開爭取早期音樂作品所有權的奮鬥圓滿結束。透過這項里程碑式的交易，Swift 現已擁有其全部音樂作品。 Swift 從私募股權公司 Shamrock Capital 手中購回母帶，該公司於 2020 年從 Scooter Braun 的 Ithaca Holdings 購入這些母帶。雖然具體財務條款未公開，但據報導，她支付的金額接近 Shamrock 當初投資的 $3 億至 $3.6 億美元，遠低於早前誇大的傳言。2019 年其前東家 Big Machine Records 未經同意將母帶賣給 Scooter Braun。作為回應，Swift 展開了前所未有的重新錄音計劃，發行了 Fearless、Red、Speak Now 和 1989 的 Taylor's Version 版本，獲得巨大的商業與評論成功，有效降低了原始母帶的價值。 Swift 表達了無比的喜悅與感恩，在其網站上寫信給粉絲表示：「我所有的音樂現在都屬於……我。」她強調，這不僅包括音頻錄音，還涵蓋音樂錄影帶、演唱會影片、專輯封面、攝影作品及那些時期的未發行歌曲。她還提到，自己的同名首張專輯已重新錄製，而《Reputation (Taylor's Version)》與首張專輯的 Taylor's Version 將在適當時機重新登場。 這場勝利是音樂產業中藝術家權利的重大時刻，Swift 強調她的奮鬥激勵了其他藝術家從一開始就爭取自己的母帶所有權。
See - Sada Elbalad
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Here's Why Fans Think Taylor Swift Just Dropped a Major Hint about Her Next Album
Yara Sameh On Friday, Taylor Swift announced in a letter on her website that she has finally acquired the masters to her first six albums gave an update on the long-awaited "Reputation" re-record — but fans believe that, to top it all off, she also subtly teased her 12th album. In her announcement, the pop star revealed that she finally 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. According to sources, Shamrock sold Swift's catalog back to her for an amount relatively close to what they paid for it — which sources tell Billboard was around $360 million. 'I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,' Swift wrote in her message, emphasizing how meaningful the acquisition is to her. 'A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news.' But what caught fans' eye was what the 14-time Grammy winner wrote next. 'All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through.' The statement may seem innocuous — and for all Swifties know, it is — but it's hard not to focus on the fact that she included no less than 12 'i's when writing out the word 'thiiiiiiiiiiiis.' Swift has released 11 albums in her career, the last of which, "The Tortured Poets Department", arrived in April 2023. That would make her next LP her 12th, a fact that has fans thinking she just teased the upcoming project with her note. 'THE LETTER HAS 12 I's TS12 IS COMING SOON TOO OMG IM SO HAPPY FOR TAYLOR,' one fan wrote on X , sharing a screenshot of the letter. 'IT'S A TS12 SUMMER!!!' another fan posted, while a third Swiftie shared a screenshot of the letter and wrote, 'I feel like ts12 just got so much closer.' The 12-count 'i' situation is just the latest suspected clue fans have picked up on ahead of the 'Fortnight' singer's predicted 12th album. Much fanfare was also made when Swift attended the 2025 Grammys wearing earrings with exactly 12 red jewels apiece, and in March, she used a sequence of 12 'D's when praising Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's I Said I Love You First album on Instagram. 'I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDD,' Swift wrote on her Story at the time. Sharing screenshots of the earrings, the Gomez-Blanco post and the letter about her masters, one Swiftie wrote Friday, 'SUDDENLY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING TS12 TRUTHERS RISE.' But while fans may be excited about the prospect of Swift's 12th album coming soon, it's just one of many things they are celebrating. Social media has seen an outpouring of Swifties rejoicing over the musician finally owning her life's work, something she wrote in her letter is her 'greatest dream come true.' The sale comes six years of publicly feuding with Borchetta and Braun over the way the original sale was handled, as well as the re-releases of four of her first six albums: "Fearless", "Speak Now", "Red", and "1989". In her letter, Swift emphasized how thankful she was to fans for sticking with her every step of the way. 'You'll never know how much it means to me that you cared,' she wrote. 'Every single bit of it counted and ended us up here. Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine… finally actually are.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks
