Taylor Swift simply reclaimed her legacy and her followers and well-known pals are celebrating.

The worldwide celebrity, who formally joined the billionaire membership final 12 months, introduced Friday that she has efficiently bought the grasp recordings of her first six studio albums.

The emotional milestone marks the tip of an extended and really public battle over possession of her early music, one thing Taylor Swift has been open about through the years.

Regardless of studies that she paid over a billion {dollars} to retrieve possession of her music, a supply informed PEOPLE Journal, “the rumored value vary that was reported is extremely inaccurate.”

In response to a separate supply who spoke to Billboard, Swift paid an estimated $360 million to purchase the rights from Shamrock Capital, the personal fairness agency that beforehand bought her catalog from music supervisor Scooter Braun in 2020. The quantity is claimed to be near what Shamrock initially paid for the rights after Braun’s firm, Ithaca Holdings, acquired Swift’s former label Large Machine Data in 2019, and with it, her complete catalog up via “Popularity.”

On the time, Swift expressed her heartbreak and frustration, calling Braun a “bully” and lamenting that she was by no means supplied a good likelihood to purchase again her life’s work.

“Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given a chance to purchase,” she stated in a now-famous Tumblr submit. The ordeal led her to start re-recording and releasing her earlier albums as “Taylor’s Variations” in 2021, a transfer that followers praised as each good and empowering.

Presently, neither Swift nor Shamrock Capital has but to reveal the true value of the sale.

On Friday, the 14-time Grammy winner took to her web site to share the information she by no means thought she’d have the ability to say. The music she spent a long time creating is lastly hers.

“I’m attempting to assemble my ideas into one thing coherent, however proper now my thoughts is only a slideshow,” Swift started in a heartfelt, handwritten-style message to followers. “A flashback sequence of on a regular basis I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for an opportunity to get to inform this information. All of the instances I used to be thiiiiiiiiiiis shut, reaching out for it, just for it to fall via.”

She continued, “I nearly stopped considering it may ever occur, after 20 years of getting the carrot dangled after which yanked away. However that’s all up to now now.”

Swift, whose “Eras Tour” utterly shattered information and whose newest album “The Tortured Poets Division” debuted at No. 1, stated the second has introduced her to tears, in one of the simplest ways doable.

“I’ve been bursting into tears of pleasure at random intervals ever since I discovered that that is actually occurring,” she shared. “I actually get to say these phrases: All the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me.”

The acquisition consists of her self-titled debut (“Taylor Swift”) and fan-favorite albums like “Fearless,” “Converse Now,” “Pink,” “1989,” and “Popularity,”  the very works that launched her into superstardom.

Taylor Swift is feeling the love, and it’s coming from her closest pals.

“YES YOU DID THAT TAY!!!” Gomez wrote on her Instagram Tales alongside a heartfelt message of satisfaction. “SO proud!”

The “Single Quickly” singer has lengthy stood by Swift, and the 2 have been vocal about their friendship for years.