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| | Taylor Swift purchased the masters from her first six albums for nine figures | | Added 43 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2019, Scooter Braun?s Ithaca Holdings purchased all of the masters held/owned by Big Machine. Those masters included Taylor Swift?s first six albums. Swift was furious. Swift and her fans went to war with Braun for a while, and within a year of the sale, Braun off-loaded the Big Machine property to Shamrock Capital for a tidy profit. In the past six years, Taylor ended up taking Kelly Clarkson?s advice Clarkson randomly tossed off a tweet back in 2019, advising Taylor to rerecord those albums and ask the Swifties to buy the re-recordings. Taylor did just that, and the ?Taylor?s Version? re-rerecordings were massively successful too. Well, after all of that, Taylor has now bought back her masters for her first six albums. The dramatic announcement came on Friday:
In one of the more dramatic business developments in pop music history, Taylor Swift has purchased her catalog of recordings that were initially released through Big Machine Records, after six years of transfers and turmoil. She acquired those six albums and associated visuals from their most recent owner, Shamrock Capital, for an undisclosed nine-figure sum, a price tag that is being characterized by Swift as exceptionally fair and reasonable.
The singer will be reissuing her old Big Machine albums, which were first sold by Big Machine against her wishes in 2019,. But now there will be two fully authorized versions of each of those albums in the marketplace, since she?s saying the re-recorded ?Taylor?s Versions? will continue to be available alongside the originals. Two of those bonus-filled editions have yet to come out, including the long-awaited ?Reputation (Taylor?s Version),? and her statement declares this deal won?t keep the remaining pair of do-overs from still being released.
News of a possible sale by Shamrock to Swift was first reported by the New York Post, but a source close to the negotiations disavowed elements of that story, saying the price tag reported was grossly inflated, and that there was no involvement of Scooter Braun. His Ithaca Holdings bought the catalog in 2019 before Shamrock acquired it from him a year later; he no longer participates in any profit from a sale, and Swift?s camp is adamant he had no part in Shamrock?s decision to sell.
Said the source close to the sale: ?Contrary to a previous false report, there was no outside party who ?encouraged? this sale. All rightful credit for this opportunity should go to the partners at Shamrock Capital and Taylor?s Nashville-based management team only. Taylor now owns all of her music, and this moment finally happened in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him.?
The source added, ?The rumored price range that was reported is highly inaccurate.? While no price tag will be publicly forthcoming, insiders say the seller was interested in making a good-faith deal and the ultimate price was far closer to the $300 million Shamrock was reported to have paid in 2020 than the far more extravagant $600-million-to-$1 billion the Post hypothesized in its story.
Prior to this week, Swift fans were certain an announcement for ?Reputation (Taylor?s Version)? would be forthcoming on Memorial Day or thereabouts. But for those who still have that as their primary concern, the singer assured fans that her plans to reissue her original albums will not affect plans to put out the final two ?Taylor?s Version? editions, the other of which would be a new version of her debut album ? though she hedge a bit. Don?t expect the new ?Reputation? or ?Taylor Swift (Taylor?s Version)? any time soon, she cautioned in the note, even though songs from a partially re-recorded version of the former album have already been licensed for television (recently appearing in ?The Handmaid?s Tale?).
As she explains in her letter: ?I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency. I haven?t even re-recorded a quarter of it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while Feeling purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief. To be perfectly honest, it?s the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn?t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or photos, or videos. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you?re into the idea) for the unreleased Vault tracks from that album to hatch. I?ve already completely re-recorded my album, and I really love how it sounds now. Those 2 albums can still have their moments to re-emerge when the time is right, if that would be something you guys would be excited about. But if it happens, it won?t be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.?
[From Variety]
Variety mentioned something which I didn?t know about the 2019 Big Machine sale not only did Taylor lose the rights to/ownership of her masters, she didn?t own the rights to her music videos, artwork and concert specials from that era. So now she has the rights to ALL of it, she owns all of it free and clear. As for the money? as Variety notes, their sources are saying that it was closer to $300 million. Page Six?s sources say the final figure was around $360 million. Which sounds like a lot, but consider this: she likely made around $2.5 billion just from the Eras Tour. So, she has the money and she used that money to buy her own work back. Good for her.
You belong with me.?
Letter on my site pic.twitter.com/pdb6kGDcVO
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 30, 2025
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| | Nick Lachey's rule for marriage is 'don't bring your work home with you' | | Added 45 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I remember when Nick and Vanessa Lachey first got together. It was after they met on the set of the music video for the song he wrote about his divorce from Jessica Simpson. It was so clich and I admit that I was skeptical that it would last. They have definitely proven me wrong! Nick and Vanessa have been married since July 2011 and have three kids, Camden, 12, Brooklyn, 10, and Phoenix, eight. They also work together as co-hosts of Love Is Blind. Nick just popped up on this week?s episode of SoFi?s financial podcast, Richer Lives. During his appearance, he had some advice for a successful marriage: ?Don?t bring your work home with you.?
Nick and Vanessa Lachey have been happily married for nearly 14 years ? and it?s likely thanks in part to following what Nick calls the couple?s ?golden rule.?
In an appearance on Richer Lives, SoFi?s branded financial podcast, Nick, 51, revealed the lesson he and Vanessa, 44, keep close to heart.
The best thing you can do is not bring your work home with you. Which is tricky when you work with your spouse,? Nick said on the episode, which premiered on Tuesday, May 27. ?I think we do a really good job of doing that, for the most part, but it?s not easy working with your spouse sometimes.?
The couple, who have been together since 2006 and married since 2011, have hosted the Netflix hit Love Is Blind together for the past five years.
?Sometimes you show up for work and there?s an argument at home that you brought with you to work and you dont want that to bleed over. And sometimes there?s arguments at work that bleed over,? he explained. ?You don?t want that, so, you know, it?s kind of good to compartmentalize and recognize that you?re here doing a job. Yes, you?re a married couple, and we?ve been together almost 20 years now, so I think that?s our golden rule, is don?t bring work home, don?t bring home to work. Try and keep it as separate as you can.?
In an interview with BRIDES in February, Nick and Vanessa revealed another secret to keeping their relationship strong: dedicating a day of the week to being intimate.
He?s like, What, schedule a sex day?' Vanessa said of Nick?s reaction. It sounds weird when you say that, so we decided: Wednesday ? hump day.
Though the NCIS: Hawaii star admitted they have fallen out of the routine after moving back to Los Angeles from Hawaii in August, Vanessa said she hoped to get back into it soon.
?I don?t want the time that we have for intimacy and connection to be taken over by logistics, but that?s our life,? she added. ?I think we?re coming into an age of having to have a hump day and a logistics day.?
The couple also talked about the benefits of couples counseling, with Nick noting that it?s normal to have disagreements after nearly two decades together.
?Anything that?s worth having takes work,? he said. ?To me, that?s a cornerstone of life, and marriage is no different. There?s no shame in that. There?s no perfect person. There?s just your person.?
[From People]
I would bet good money that not taking your work home with you was a hard lesson that Nick learned after he and Jessica filmed Newlyweds. There were probably no lines drawn during that time period to separate their professional and personal lives. Hes said as much. I get what he means in terms of, ?If you have a bad day at the office, leave it there.? I don?t think he?s saying not to talk to your partner about a problem; he means don?t take whatever happened at work out on your loved ones at home. It?s solid advice and should be a golden rule in all relationships.
I read Nick and Vanessas interview back in February when they talked about scheduling sexy times, and I really appreciated their honesty. They?re not the first couple to admit to doing that and they won?t be the last. No judgment here! You gotta do what you gotta do to stay connected as a couple. For a couple that has managed to stay pretty private, we do have some insight into their marriage: scheduled sex and keeping work sh-t at work. Good for them.
photos courtesy of Netflix and credit: Greg Gayne/Netflix
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