Taylor Swift followers have lately expressed their elation after her music has returned to TikTok following a 10-week hiatus amid a licensing dispute between social media app and Common Music Group (UMG)
On Thursday, lots of Taylor songs together with The Man and Me etctera had been accessible on the TikTok app.
The return of singer’s library music to TikTok got here per week earlier than the discharge of her subsequent studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, which goes to come back out on April 19.
Some followers celebrated the return by posting movies of them lip-syncing to songs like Merciless Summer season. Others talked about that their movies that used Taylor’s music weren’t muted anymore.
For the unversed, the UMG-TikTok dispute witnessed the label pulling all of Taylor’s songs from the app on February 1.
They contains songs from Taylor, Woman Gaga, Drake and others. Nonetheless, solely Taylor’s songs had returned to the social media platform.
On the time, UMG issud an open letter the place they argued “in our contract renewal discussions, we have now been urgent them on three crucial points—applicable compensation for our artists and songwriters, defending human artists from the dangerous results of AI, and on-line security for TikTok’s customers”.
Nonetheless, the 2 sides did not agree that led to the choice to drag the music.
In the meantime, UMG and Spotify inked a deal to broaden their partnership, together with extra promotional instruments in March.
