[(Title)] Taylor Swift Is About to Launch the Biggest Bidding War in the Music Industry's History.

When it comes to the music industry, there aren't many stars bigger than Taylor Swift. For the past 13 years, though, she has been exclusively tied to Big Machine Records. In three months, she's free to find a new label.

如果谈到音乐产业，就没有比泰勒·斯威夫特更“大”的明星了。在过去的13年里，她一直与“大机器唱片”绑定在一起。但在接下来的三个月，她可以自由地寻找一个新的品牌。

That's likely to set off what could be a record bidding war among labels. Swift is one of a handful of performers who can reliably sell CDs and consistently sell out stadiums, along with Beyonce and Adele.

这可能会引发唱片公司之间创纪录的投标战。泰勒是少数几个能纯粹靠卖CD并持续销售演唱会门票的可靠表演者之一，碧昂丝和阿黛尔也是如此。

She's also one of the industry's shrewdest businesspeople. And Variety reports she and her team have already been talking with both Big Machine and other labels about her next deal. (Swift's contact with Big Machine expires in November.)

她也是业内最精明的经营者之一。根据《综艺》杂志报道，她和她的团队已经和大机器唱片以及其他唱片公司商量下一笔交易（Swift与大机器唱片的合约将于11月到期）。

Insiders tell Variety Swift could make as much as $20 million per album and retain the ownership rights to her master recordings as well. At present, Big Machine owns the rights to past masters and has been reticent to give those up.

内部人士称，泰勒的每张专辑可赚取2,000万美元，同时还能保留其主唱片的所有权。目前，大机器唱片拥有其过去唱片的版权，并且一直不愿放弃这些权利。

Swift is a money-making phenomenon. The tour for her latest album, Reputation, earned $54 million in just six days—it's forecast to make more than $400 million by the time it ends later this year.)

泰勒简直是一个“赚钱现象”。她的最新专辑“Reputation”的巡回演出仅6天就赚了5,400万美元（预计到今年晚些时候结束之时，这一数字将超过4亿美元）。

And she has sold more than 37 million albums to date, with each release going platinum.

迄今为止，她已售出超过3700万张专辑，每张专辑都是白金唱片。

Beyond music, she has endorsement deals with a wide range of brands, including Apple, Diet Coke, Keds, and CoverGirl.

除了音乐，她还支持各种各样的品牌，包括苹果、Diet Coke、Keds和HeadGirl等。

Her return to music streaming service Spotify in 2017—after removing her songs from the streaming service—earned her $400,000 in one week and, even as fans were split on Reputation's debut single, it quickly shot to the top of the Billboard charts.

在从流媒体服务中删除她的歌曲后，2017年，她又重返了音乐流服务公司Spotify，并在一周内赚到了40万美元。

The album sold 1 million copies in four days upon its release.

Reputation在发行的四天后就售出了100万张。