Taylor Swift paid THIS much to own her music again

Taylor Swift has reportedly paid a handsome amount to buy back the rights to her first six albums.

An insider spilled to Billboard on Friday that the pop sensation paid Shamrock Capital about $360 million to acquire the rights to all songs from albums, Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989, and Reputation.

In 2019, music manager Scooter Braun first acquired the rights to Taylor's master recordings by buying her former label, Big Machine Records, for $300 million.

 A year later, he sold her master recordings to Shamrock Capital.

“Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,” said Taylor at the time.

On May 30, 2025, Taylor announced via her website that she bought back the rights to all of her songs.

“I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow,” the Bad Blood hitmaker began her note.

She further penned., “A flashback sequence of all the time I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell this news. All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through."

“I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now,” admitted the 35-year-old singer.

“I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me,” marveled Taylor.