

In 2019, Big Machine Records was acquired by American talent manager and businessman Scooter Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings.

She signed a new contract with record label Republic Records, which is a division of Universal Music Group. In 2018, having recorded six studio albums under Big Machine, Swift's contract with the label expired. The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, and is credited for paving Swift's way to becoming one of the biggest acts of her generation. The most awarded country album in history, Fearless won four Grammy Awards at the 52nd ceremony, including Album of the Year, the first of Swift's three wins in that category. It spawned five top-10 entries on the Billboard Hot 100, including the crossover singles " Love Story" and " You Belong with Me", and catapulted Swift to mainstream prominence. It spent 11 weeks atop the US Billboard 200 chart and became the best-selling album of 2009. It was distributed by American record label Big Machine. Taylor Swift released her second studio album, Fearless, in 2008 to critical and commercial success. Commercially, it topped the charts in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, the United Kingdom, as well as the United States, where it marked the first ever re-recorded album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Fearless (Taylor's Version) received critical acclaim, with emphasis on nostalgic sentiment, and Swift's strong, matured vocals reviews commended the precise replication of the original compositions but with a crisper production quality. The album was preceded by three of its songs, all of which entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: " Love Story (Taylor's Version)" topped the chart, "You All Over Me" landed at number six, followed by " Mr. Colbie Caillat returned to feature on " Breathe", while Maren Morris and Keith Urban contributed guest vocals on vault tracks " You All Over Me" and "That's When", respectively. Recreating the album musically, the re-recorded tracks were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe, using the same touring band that played the instruments on the original, whereas the newly added tracks were produced by Swift, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.

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It is a re-recording of Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008), and the first in the series of six re-recorded albums Swift has planned to release, following the dispute regarding ownership of the masters to her first six studio albums.Ĭonsisting of re-recorded versions of all of the 19 tracks from the Platinum Edition (2009) of Fearless, Swift's 2010 soundtrack single " Today Was a Fairytale", and six bonus "from the Vault" songs that were witheld from being included on the original Fearless or its Platinum Edition, there are 26 tracks on Fearless (Taylor's Version), twelve of which were solely written by Swift. Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the first re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on April 9, 2021, through Republic Records.
