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Taylor Swift label UMG agrees licensing deal with TikTok, ending spat

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Taylor Swift attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.  Neilson Barnard | Getty Images Universal Music Group, the record label for top music artists including Taylor Swift, struck a new licensing agreement with TikTok, putting an end to a spat between the two companies. In a … Read more

TikTok gets Tay and Billie back with new UMG content licensing deal

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Users on TikTok can once again create music clips using tracks from UMG’s catalog, a list featuring some of the biggest names in music today: Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande. That’s because, after months of fighting, the social media platform and Universal Music Group (UMG) have finally called a truce with a new … Read more

Taylor Swift gets custom collab with TikTok as UMG battle continues

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TikTok has launched a new hub to promote Taylor Swift’s new album where you can earn in-app rewards for completing certain tasks, like following Swift’s account on the platform. The update comes just days after Swift’s music returned to TikTok as the app continues to feud with the singer’s record label, Universal Music Group (UMG). … Read more

Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok, despite platform’s ongoing UMG dispute

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After 10 weeks of being absent from the platform, Taylor Swift’s music has returned to TikTok — or at least her more recent songs and “Taylor’s Version” cuts, since she owns those masters. Taylor Swift’s music, and music from all artists signed to Universal Music Group, was pulled from TikTok when the two parties were … Read more

TikTok Artist Mareux Says UMG Pulling Music From App Hurts Label’s Small Artists

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Universal Music Group wiping their songs from TikTok is going to hurt the label’s smaller artists the most … so says a musician who saw the app elevate his own artistic brand. Mareux had his 2015 cover of The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” go viral in 2021 and it vaulted him to a Coachella performance … Read more

Rickey Thompson Talks UMG Pulling Music From TikTok, Dance Elsewhere

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Play video content TMZ.com It’s happening … huge hitmakers are being wiped from TikTok after the app failed to reach a deal with UMG — something Rickey Thompson calls a game-changer, and a bummer. We chatted with the social media star Wednesday in Bev Hills, and he told us the unfortunate development creates a massive … Read more

Taylor Swift songs removed from TikTok after UMG spat

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Taylor Swift performs onstage at Lumen Field in Seattle on July 22, 2023. Mat Hayward/tas23 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Songs from artists signed to Universal Music Group have started disappearing from TikTok after the two sides failed to agree a new deal over content licensing, sparking a public spat. Music by artists … Read more

Nate Bargatze And UMG Nashville Announce Capitol Comedy Nashville

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Common Music Group Nashville has introduced the launch of latest label Capitol Comedy Nashville with flagship comic Nate Bargatze. Capitol Comedy Nashville, a brand new comedy-centered imprint for the label group, brings Bargatze’s Whats up, World! audio album to the lots right this moment. “Nation music and comedy have at all times had a throughline … Read more

UMG Celebrates Hip-Hop 50 With Sequence Of Initiatives And Fan Occasions

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Jadakiss, Ashanti and Ja Rule – Photograph: John Lamparski/Getty Pictures for Empire State Realty Belief Common Music Group (UMG) lately introduced an unique program of exercise for followers to rejoice Hip-Hop’s fiftieth Anniversary, starting yesterday (August 10) with the particular lighting of New York’s iconic Empire State Constructing in gold. The occasion preceded a celebration … Read more