When she announced last Friday that she had finally purchased back the master recordings and all associated material for her first six albums, Taylor Swift wrote in an emotional letter posted to her website that she had “been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this was really happening.”

Taylor Swift announced Friday she has bought back her first six studio albums, the masters of which were sold to celebrity manager Scooter Braun in 2019 and later to Shamrock Capital.

After a years-long dispute over the ownership of Taylor Swift’s music catalog, the pop superstar can officially call all of her old albums “mine.”In a letter posted on her website on Friday, Swift announced that she had bought the masters,