Does Madonna own her masters?
With all the talk about Taylor Swift lately, I was just wondering.
I know that she owns the publishing rights for all of her songs (under Boy Toy Publishing if I'm not wrong), and that's how she was able to sell MDNA, Rebel heart and Madame X to Warner for 2025. I believe she owns the masters for those three albums as well, but what about Erotica? Like a virgin? Hard Candy? Does she own any of the masters of her previous albums?
Is there someone here more knowledgeable? 😃
She probably got back to Warner for that reason. I can totally see her signong a deal with Warner under the lie that she would re-release deluxe versions of her albums with the sole purpose to block them from being released hahahah.
Joke aside, i have a real question for people in the know, when an album is re-released in a remastered version (with extra content or not) is the re-release considered a new release separated from the original album ( meaning the contract for its original rele