Taylor Swift may be a billionaire but she tends not to blow her money on momentary splurges and is more known for her donations and supporting causes.
But the superstar, 35, recently admitted there was one thing she just had to have on the December 10 segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – and she used her hard-earned money from The Eras Tour to get it.
As Swift told Colbert, she finally bought back her master recordings.
‘That’s how I spent that Eras Tour money. My fans are why I was able to get my music back,’ the singer said.
Swift, who was there to promote her new Disney+ docuseries, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour/ The End of an Era, gushed that she never would have met her fiancé, Travis Kelce, or been able to buy back her music if it weren’t for the tour.
The Eras Tour lasted nearly two years from March 17, 2023 to December 8, 2024 – a total of 632 days – and was hugely profitable, taking in over $2 billion in ticket sales.
Taylor Swift has revealed the unexpected thing she bought with the millions she made on her hugely profitable Eras Tour; pictured performing on tour at Wembley Stadium in London on August 15, 2024
Taylor told Stephen Colbert on the December 10 segment of The Late Show that she used the tour money to finally buy back her master recordings
The singer was especially grateful to her fans, saying, ‘My fans are why I was able to get my music back’
Swift and Kelce, 36, met in summer 2023 following the NFL player’s failed attempt to gift her with a bracelet at her July concert. He mentioned it on his podcast, which then led to their first date in New York City in early September 2023.
The couple confirmed their romance when Swift attended his Kansas City Chiefs game that month where she was sitting with his mom, Donna Kelce.
They got engaged in August after dating two years.
‘Getting engaged to the love of my life, getting all my music back, those were two things that just never could have happened,’ Swift told Colbert.
‘It wasn’t like, “Oh, it’s just a matter of time.” Both those things could have just never arrived in my life. And I’m so grateful for both of those things happening.’
Swift announced in May that she finally bought back her masters from Shamrock Capital, the company that scored the singer’s first six albums from Scooter Braun’s Ithica Holdings in 2020, reportedly paying over $300 million in the deal.
‘Hi. I’m trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flashback sequence of all the times I daydreamed about, wished for, and pined away for a chance to get to tell you this news,’ the hitmaker shared on her website.
‘All the times I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close, reaching out for it, only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen, after 20 years of having the carrot dangled then yanked away. But that’s all in the past now.’
‘Getting engaged to the love of my life, getting all my music back, those were two things that just never could have happened,’ Taylor said about the tour
Taylor and Travis – pictured November 7 in New York City – started dating in fall 2023 and got engaged this past August
Taylor’s public battle with Scooter Braun over her master recordings ended in May when she bought back all her music; the music exec is pictured on August 24 in L.A.
The pop culture phenomenon continued: ‘I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.’
‘And all of my music videos. All the concert films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work,’ she added.
Swift’s drama with Braun began in 2019 with his acquisition of Big Machine Records, which enabled him to gain ownership of her first six albums’ master recordings without her consent.
She accused the music exec of bullying and trying to prevent her from performing her old music while he countered her offered her a deal to buy them back and she refused.
Swift’s fans took her side and have been highly critical of Braun ever since, even though the public battle ended with her buying back the entire catalog from Shamrock Holdings in May.