Artists from Universal Music Group, which consistof Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the 2 celebrations have struck a brand-new licensing contract following an roughly three-month long conflict.
The 2 sides stated Thursday that they are “now working expeditiously to return music by artists represented by Universal Music Group and songwriters represented by Universal Music Publishing Group to TikTok in due course.”
Taylor Swift, whose justrecently launched album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, had some of her tunes make a return to TikTok last month, however the information of how that precisely occurred are uncertain, according to Variety.
UMG stated in January that it had not concurred to terms of a brand-new offer with TikTok, and prepared to stop licensing material from the artists it represents on the social media platform that is owned by ByteDance, as well as TikTok Music services.
At the time, UMG hadactually been pushing TikTok on 3 problems: “appropriate settlement for our artists and songwriters, safeguarding human artists from the hazardous results of AI, and online security for TikTok’s users.”
TikTok pressed back versus the declares by UMG, stating that it had reached ‘artist-first’ contracts with every other label and publisher.
On Thursday the 2 sid