Do remasters benefit artists?

[Maxym]

My question is not about the part where he talks about MJ but about Taylor Swift.

As I understand what he's saying. She remastered some album so she could make more money from it?
But how it sounds is like she wasn't making much money from the non-remastered version and with the remaster she suddenly makes more money?

Or maybe it's just ambiguous phrasing and he means that thanks to the remaster she can sell new copies of the albums, hence more albums, possibly reviving an early album, and then, nothing surprising (other than the fact that people still fall for remasters while non-remasters usually sound better).

 

[DuranDuran]

I think Taylor Swift re-recorded her earlier albums, which is different from a remaster.

 

[NeoGardiV12]

I think Taylor Swift re-recorded her earlier albums, which is different from a remaster.

Yeah, she re-recorded her early stuff since she apparently did not own the rights to any of her old albums, she did not legally own her masters.

 

[zinniabooklover]

My question is not about the part where he talks about MJ but about Taylor Swift.

As I understand what he's saying. She remastered some album so she could make more money from it?

No, he's not explaining it properly. She didn't remaster the albums, she re-recorded them. Her original masters were sold to, I believe, Scooter Braun. She was p!ssed about it and re-recorded her existing albums, labelling them as 'Taylor's Version'. It was a clever move but I believe record companies now have a clause in contracts for new artists preventing them from doing this.

The copyright for songs is usually owned by a publishing company which is often separate to the record company. The record label owns the masters of the recorded material unless the artist can get them back - as Michael did.

But how it sounds is like she wasn't making much money from the non-remastered version and with the remaster she suddenly makes more money?

Or maybe it's just ambiguous phrasing and he means that thanks to the remaster she can sell new copies of the albums, hence more albums, possibly reviving an early album, and then, nothing surprising (other than the fact that people still fall for remasters while non-remasters usually sound better). [...]

Tbf to Taylor, not only did she re-record the albums but she put in some previously unreleased songs that didn't make the track list first time around or she did a video for a song that didn't get one before. One song got included in it's original 10-minute long version, I believe. Some of the songs got added instrumentation to make a fuller sound.