Taylor Swift's bought back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums

Swift lost the rights back in 2019 when her first record label Big Machine sold them to Scooter Braun which led to her ongoing project to re-record her first six albums. Braun sold the master recordings to Shamrock Capital in November 2020 for a reported $300m. In the letter, which you can read below, she attributes the success of the Eras tour as a key factor in the purchase.

Swift has also offered an update on the re-recorded versions of sixth album Reputation, originally released via Big Machine back in November 2017, and her self-titled debut record from 2006: "I haven't even recorded a quarter of it," she writes, of Reputation. "....These two albums can still have their moment to re-emerge when the time is right..."

Reputation was her most direct work to date at that point, as well as her most maximalist sounding. Addressing media scrutiny and her once-wholesome "America's Sweetheart" image, it became a polarising record for critics on release. The record was teased earlier this month by a section of “Look What You Made Me Do” featuring in an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, and it was speculated by many that she'd announce something at Monday's AMAs.