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The shocking face helps Taylor Swift to buy your recordings back

Taylor Swift's music could soon belong to her – and she has an unlikely ally in her corner.

Page six reports that the original recordings of Swift's first six albums are for sale.

The music manager Scooter Braun bought the lucrative asset for 300 million US dollars in 2019 and then sold it to the Shamrock Capital investment company a year later.

At that time, Swift Braun, who made his lucky leader Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, made a “tyrant” and “the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry”. She also rejected an option of taking an equity share in her catalog because the deal meant that Braun would still get a cut of her license fees.

According to Braun, Braun is now working behind the scenes to convince Shamrock Capital to sell the recordings back to Swift on page six.

The price would now be between 600 million and 1 billion US dollars -a large sum, but a Swift could probably be able to afford after its Eras tour, which broke all the records and collapsed over 2 billion US dollars.

The price for the masters of Taylor Swift would now be between 600 and 1 billion US dollars -a large sum, but a Swift could probably afford after its ERAS tour has broken all records and burned over 2 billion US dollars. Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters

Swift has also re -recorded and released four of the six albums, for which it does not have the rights. Swifties are still waiting for the “Taylor's version” editions of Call And her self -titled debut from 2006.

She has attributed Kelly Clarkson to give her the idea of ​​regaining her music by replicating the albums that she does not have, and added unpublished material to buy the deal for fans for the second time. Her license fees from the versions of Taylor alone were estimated at 9 million US dollars. The possession of the Master recordings is not only an intelligent business train, but also offers full control over a music catalog, including the right to approve or refuse to use in television programs, films or advertisements.

Scott "Scooter" Braun, founder of SB Projects, speaks during the development of music and music consumer session at the Global Conference 2014 Milken Institute Institute
The music manager Scooter Braun bought Taylor Swift's Master recordings for 300 million US dollars in 2019 and then sold them to the Shamrock Capital investment company a year later. KEVURK DJANSEZIAN/Reuters

Swift signed Big Machine in 2005 at the age of 15. She claimed to be blind when Big Machine was sold without giving her the chance to offer her back catalog. At that time, Swift went to Tumblr to vent and write: “Scooter robbed me of my life work that I had no opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical heritage is in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.”

Swift fans have a foretaste Call (Taylor's version) With the re -recorded version of “Look What You Mict Me Do” in the Ins The history of handmaid this week.

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