Taylor’s Triumph: Swift Reclaims Her Original Masters

On the 30th May, Taylor Swift took to Instagram to announce she now owns the master recordings (Masters) of her first six albums. She shared three photos of her, surrounded by vinyl’s of her original albums: Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation. “All of the music I’ve ever made…now belongs…to me”, she wrote in a lengthy letter uploaded onto her website. For the very first time, Swift now owns the music, the artwork, the concert films, and the unreleased songs for her albums made between 2006 and 2017.