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Taylor Swift announced Friday she has bought back her first six studio albums, the masters of which were sold to celebrity manager Scooter Braun 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 in a letter shared on her website. "I really get to say these words: All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me."
After the masters were sold in 2019, Swift said she would rerecord the albums, so she would own the updated versions. She has released four: "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" and "Red (Taylor's Version)" in 2021, and "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" and "1989 (Taylor's Version)" in 2023.
Fans have been anxiously awaiting the rerecording of "Reputation," originally released in 2017, for years, but Swift said in her letter that she hasn't even rerecorded a quarter of that album.
"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 wrote. "To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it."
Swift said she has rerecorded her debut, self-titled album, which was originally released in 2006.