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Universal Music Group plans to pull song catalog from TikTok
Universal Music Group, one of the world's largest music labels, says that it plans to stop licensing music to TikTok in a disagreement over royalties.
Universal Music Group (UMG), the label representing artists including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande, says that it’ll pull its music from TikTok tomorrow at midnight after failing to reach a deal with the platform’s parent company, ByteDance, over royalties. In a press release, UMG accused TikTok of trying to build a “music-based business without paying fair value for [artists’] music.” As a part of the deal, UMG and TikTok agreed to experiment with new features, like allowing users to incorporate clips from UMG’s full catalog of music, including Bad Bunny, SZA, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber, Adele, U2 and Elton John.
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