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An escalating royalty dispute with Universal Music Group (UMG) is forcing the company to remove more music from its platform. UMG recently owns or distributes music from superstars like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and The Weeknd through TikTok. The conflict is currently affecting the songs released by UMG, with millions more songs expected to be muted on TikTok by the end of this week.
According to , the latest move in this saga will affect the work of songwriters and affiliated artists who are signed to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). . Due to an issue called split copyright, if a writer signed with UMPG contributed to a song in any way, the track may have to be removed from his TikTok. As a result, artists who have collaborated with Swift, Adele, Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Ice Spice, Elton John, Harry Styles, SZA, and more have had their songs disappear from TikTok and are currently being used by artists who have collaborated with them. You may be muted on videos you are watching. This move will allow more artists to connect their work to the most important platform for promoting their music.
by , UMG removed approximately 3 million songs from TikTok after its contract for its recording catalog expired. UMG’s deal with TikTok for its publishing catalog (covering about 4 million songs) ends later this week, at which point all related tracks could disappear from the short-form video service.