In a letter posted on her website on Friday, Swift announced that she had bought the masters, or original recordings, of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital nearly six years after her former record label, Big Machine Records, sold them to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in what she described at the time as her “worst case scenario.”

Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, ending a long-running battle over the ownership of her music. "All of the music I've ever made now belongs to me," said the star, announcing the news on her official website.