Taylor Swift’s Catalog Victory: Breaking Down Her Six-Year Battle to Own Her Music

Taylor Swift’s long, very public and very personal battle to own the rights to her first six albums, from her self-titled debut to “Reputation,” came to a happy conclusion for the singer this week, as she announced on Friday that, after the catalog, originally owned by and released on Big Machine Records — and which changed hands twice — it’s finally hers.

“All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me,” she wrote, with dramatic pauses signaling just how long and challenging the pursuit has been. “And all my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic.

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