TikTok and Universal Music Group Finally Made Up

Stans rejoice — your faves are yet returning to TikTok. After a three-month standoff, Universal Music Group has reached a caller licensing statement with the app, allowing songs from music’s largest statement radical to return. Per a property merchandise from TikTok, the caller woody includes “improved remuneration” and “industry-leading protections” for AI, 2 of UMG’s sticking points successful the archetypal holdout. TikTok besides teased “new promotional and engagement opportunities” for UMG artists. “Music is an integral portion of the TikTok ecosystem, and we are pleased to person recovered a way guardant with Universal Music Group,” said Shou Chew, TikTok’s CEO. Per TikTok, it volition instrumentality 1 to 2 weeks to instrumentality each of UMG’s catalogue to the app, including songs by Ariana Grande, BTS, and hundreds of different artists.

A turning constituent came erstwhile Taylor Swift, UMG’s biggest artist, seemingly struck her ain woody with TikTok past month, allowing her euphony to instrumentality to the app up of The Tortured Poets Department. By that point, fans had already been illicitly uploading UMG songs to TikTok, and artists themselves reportedly adjacent recovered workarounds by uploading songs without credits for writers nether Universal Music Publishing Group. The caller licence besides comes conscionable days aft President Biden signed a instrumentality that would prohibition TikTok successful the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not merchantability the app wrong 9 months.

UMG is present the 2nd of 3 large statement groups to onslaught caller deals with TikTok aft Warner Music Group did past year. Meanwhile, Sony Music Entertainment’s CEO hinted arsenic precocious arsenic precocious March that its ain artists could permission TikTok implicit akin outgo concerns. So present that each your favourite euphony is yet backmost connected TikTok, get to posting while you inactive can.