Which label did Taylor Swift signed her first recording contract with?

Which label did Taylor Swift sign her first recording contract with? She signed with Big Machine Records. The deal was made in 2005, when Swift was 15 and Nashville executive Scott Borchetta was launching the new country-focused label. It became the foundation of her recording career and led to her self-titled debut album.

Swift had already attracted attention in Nashville by performing original songs and writing with established Music Row songwriters. She had previously signed a publishing agreement with Sony/ATV, but that was a songwriting and music-publishing deal, not her first recording contract. That distinction is the source of a frequent quiz and biography mix-up.

Big Machine released Taylor Swift in October 2006. The album introduced songs such as “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar,” helping establish Swift as a young country singer-songwriter. The label later owned the original master recordings of her first six albums, a dispute that eventually prompted Swift to create the Taylor’s Version re-recordings.