Taylor Swift registered her masters under You Belong With Me, LLC, established April 21, 2025 — less than six weeks before announcing her purchase.All the music I ever wrote… belongs to… me now,” the superstar wrote in a message to fans.

Taylor Swift can finally say “You Belong With Me” to her master recordings after she got them back. The pop superstar announced on Friday (May 30) that she had purchased them from Shamrock Capital, six years after Scooter Braun first acquired her catalog from Scott Borchetta.

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Posting a photo of herself posing with the covers of her first six albums on Instagram, Swift shared the news with fans by directing them to a letter posted on her website. In the lengthy message, the 14-time Grammy winner got candid about how emotional the process has been for her — “I’ve cried tears of joy at random times since I found out this was actually happening,” she wrote — before sharing details about the purchase as well as providing an update on her two most recent Taylor’s Version re-recordings, which fans have been waiting for her to release since she began reworking her first six albums in an effort to regain control of the music Borchetta sold in 2019: Reputation and her 2006 self-titled debut.

But most of all, Swift emphasized how important it is for her to own her entire discography after nearly 20 years of her career. “To say this is my biggest dream come true is an understatement,” she wrote. “To my fans, you know how important this is to me — so much so that I painstakingly re-recorded and released four albums, calling them Taylor’s Version.”

“The overwhelming support you’ve shown for those albums and the success story “The Eras Tour you made possible is the reason I can buy my music back,” she added in the letter. “I am so grateful to you for helping me reclaim the art that I have spent my entire life pursuing, but have never owned until now.”

Read Swift’s full letter below.

HELLO,

I’m trying to organize my thoughts into a coherent story, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A series of flashbacks of all the times I dreamed, wished, and yearned for the chance to tell you this news. All the times I was so close, so close, only to have it slip away. I’ve almost stopped thinking about it, after 20 years of being “flirted” and “snatched.” But that’s all in the past now. I’ve cried tears of joy, and occasionally tears since I found out this was actually happening. I actually got to say the words this:

Every song I’ve ever written… now belongs to… me.

And all my music videos.
All my concert films.
Album covers and photos.
Unreleased songs.
The memories. The magic. The madness.
Every era.
My entire life’s work.

To say this is my biggest dream come true is an understatement. To my fans, you know how much this means to me — so much so that I painstakingly re-recorded and released four of my albums, calling them Taylor’s Version. The overwhelming support you gave those albums and the success story you made The Eras Tour into is the reason I can buy my music back. I’m so grateful to you for reuniting me with the art I’ve spent my whole life pursuing, but never owned until now.

All I ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard to one day buy out my music, no strings attached, no partnerships, with complete autonomy. I will forever be grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first to offer this to me. They treated every interaction we had with honesty, fairness, and respect. It was a business deal for them, but I truly felt like they saw it for what it was to me: My memories, my sweat, my handwriting, and decades of dreams. I am so grateful. My first tattoo might as well have been a giant clover in the middle of my forehead.

I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Honestly: I haven’t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a wall when I tried to re-create it. All that defiance, that yearning to be understood while feeling willfully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that growl and mischief born of shame. Honestly, it’s the only album out of the first six that I don’t think could be improved by remaking. Not the music, or the visuals, or the videos. So I keep putting it off. There will come a time (if you like the idea of ​​that) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to blossom. I’ve completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really like the way it sounds now. Those two albums may still have moments of resurgence when the time is right, if that’s what you’re expecting. But if that happens, it won’t be out of sadness and longing for what I long for. Right now, it’s just a celebration.

I’m incredibly excited about the conversations this has sparked in my industry between artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me that they negotiated for mastering rights in their record deal because of this fight, I am reminded of how important all of this is. Thank you for being curious about something that was previously considered too industry-centric to discuss publicly. You will never know how much your interest means to me. Every little detail counts and has brought us here.

Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement, the greatest things that have ever happened to me… have finally happened.

Excited and amazed,