Taylor Swift now owns the rights to all the music she has ever made. On May 31, 2025, she bought back the master recordings of her first six albums, along with her music videos, photos, concert films, and unreleased songs. Before this, her old songs were sold without her permission to music manager Scooter Braun in 2019, and then to an investment company. She didn’t control how her music was used, so she began re-recording her albums and calling them ''Taylor’s Version'' to let fans know which ones belonged to her. Now that she has bought back everything, she no longer needs to re-record. Fans are happy and are listening to her old albums again, helping them return to the music charts.
Vocabulary:
• album (noun): a collection of songs released together
• recording (noun): an audio file of a song or album
• rights (noun): legal control over something like music or books
• version (noun): a specific form or edition of something
• label (noun): a company that produces and distributes music
• unreleased (adjective): not made public yet
• chart (noun): a list showing the most popular songs or albums
• own (verb): to have legal possession of something
• distribute (verb): to deliver or share something across platforms or locations
• license (verb): to give legal permission for someone to use something
• artwork (noun): images or visuals, especially for albums or posters
Source: Behind the News