Major Taylor Swift News Breaks After Big Career Announcement originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Friday was a day that Taylor Swift and her fans won’t soon forget.
Less than 12 hours after being spotted out in New York City at Italian hotspot Via Carota in West Village without boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who was in Kansas City training with the Chiefs having started OTAs, Swift made a major personal announcement on Instagram.
In news that some of her fans expected thanks to a previous report from Page Six, Swift announced that she bought back the masters of her first six albums, “Taylor Swift,” “Fearless,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation.”
Billboard reported the acquisition cost Swift a hefty $360 million.
Swift also revealed that while most of her fans were anxiously awaiting her to announce the release date of her “Reputation (Taylor’s Version)” album that she had some disappointing news for them.
Pop star Taylor Swift announced on Friday that she has bought back the master recordings of her first six albums.Alexander Lewis / MyCentralJersey / USA TODAY NETWORK
“I know, I know. What about Rep TV?” Swift wrote. “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.
With news that a re-release of “Reputation” likely wasn’t happening, Swift’s fans took matters into their own hands, and some pretty big news broke after she announced she had bought back her masters.
“Taylor Swift’s “Reputation’ has returned #1 on US iTunes following masters announcement,” the @ChartData X account posted.
Swift dethroned Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” album, which debuted at No. 1 on May 16.
Released in 2017, “Reputation” spent four weeks at No. 1 on the iTunes chart after its release. The album went three times platinum and has sold 2.478 million copies in the United States.
Though Swift has been doing her best to stay out of the spotlight following Super Bowl LIX, it’s clear following Friday’s announcement that’s no longer the case. She and Kelce were spotted having a public date night last weekend, and with the NFL season right around the corner, fans will likely see her at Arrowhead Stadium quite a bit in 2025.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on May 31, 2025, where it first appeared.
