Taylor Swift has signed a global recording agreement with Universal Music Group, the company announced Monday. Under the multiyear agreement, UMG will serve as the exclusive worldwide recorded music partner for Swift and UMG’s Republic Records will serve as her label partner in the U.S. The singer’s previous deal with Big Machine Records, which released all of her previous albums and is distributed by UMG, ended earlier this month.

According to the announcement, the multiple-album deal, effective immediately, deepens the relationship between Swift and UMG and builds upon the success she achieved with Big Machine Records — the label whose long-term strategic alliance with Republic Records first brought Swift into the UMG family. A 10-time Grammy winner distinguished as the youngest-ever recipient of the Grammy for Album of the Year — and the first female solo artist to win the award twice — is the only artist in history with four albums with sales of more than 1 million copies in their first week of release: 2010’s “Speak Now,” 2012’s “Red,” 2014’s “1989” and 2017’s “Reputation.”

The pop superstar became the music industry’s most eligible bachelorette Nov. 10, when the first anniversary of the release of “Reputation” freed her from her contract with Big Machine Records.

— Variety