It’s been quite a year for Taylor Swift.

In March, a nearly six-years-long battle ended: She announced that she bought back her masters from Shamrock Capital. (The private equity investment firm purchased them from Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in 2020, who owned them through Braun’s acquisition of Swift’s former label Big Machine Records in 2019.)

“To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released four of my albums, calling them Taylor’s Version,” she wrote at the time in a letter on her website. “The passionate support you showed those albums and the success story you turned The Eras Tour into is why I was able to buy back my music.”

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