Taylor Buys Back Her Masters

Taylor Swift officially owns all of her life's work! The pop star announced on May 30 that she bought back her master recordings nearly six years after music exec Scooter Braun (inset) infamously took ownership of them.

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“The best things that have ever been mine... finally actually are,” she wrote in a letter to fans, paraphrasing the lyrics to her 2010 single “Mine.” Swift purchased her first six albums (plus music videos, concert films, unreleased songs and more) for a reported $360 million from private equity firm Shamrock Holdings, which had acquired them from Braun in 2020. “I’ve been bursting into tears