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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Shreya Biswas

Taylor Swift spent years rebuilding her music empire after losing her first 6 albums; in 2025, she finally bought back the original masters

Fourteen-time Grammy-winning singer Taylor Swift’s long-running dispute over ownership of the master recordings of her early albums reached a major turning point in 2025.

As reported by Reuters, on May 30 last year, singer of Cruel Summer said that she had bought the master recordings of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital, which was the owner of the recordings at that moment. The financial details of the purchase have not been revealed.

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