(NewsNation) — Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, she announced Friday.
“All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” Swift said in a letter to fans on her official website. “To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it.”
Swift said she also owns all of her music videos, concert films, album art and photography, and unreleased songs.
Friday’s announcement marks the end of a yearslong battle over ownership of the star’s music catalog. In 2019, Swift’s catalog was sold as part of a larger acquisition.
Swift on Friday thanked Shamrock Capital, the Los Angeles-based investment firm that offered her the opportunity to buy back her music, though she did not disclose the price of the deal.
“I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,” Swift said in the letter.
The star also updated fans on “Reputation (Taylor’s Version),” acknowledging she hasn’t even rerecorded “a quarter of it.”
In the letter, Swift said “Reputation” was the one album in her first six that “couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it,” so she kept “putting it off.”
“There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for the unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch,” she wrote.
Swift said she has already rerecorded her debut album and loves how it sounds.