Universal Music Group and TikTok have reached a new licensing agreement, the companies announced, ending their months-long dispute and bringing UMG’s catalog back to the short-form video platform. UMG first announced in an open letter at the end of January that it hadn’t reached an agreement with TikTok, citing several …
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It took years of searching and too many false leads to count, but the musicians behind the mysterious 1980s pop tune commonly referred to as “Everyone Knows That” or “EKT” — the real title is “Ulterior Motives” — have been identified: Christopher Saint Booth sang the vocals on the beguiling …
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The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that would either ban TikTok from American app stores and web-hosting services or force its China-based parent company ByteDance to sell the video-sharing platform within nearly a year. The bill, titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would also …
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President Joe Biden signed legislation on Wednesday that would force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or incur an outright ban of the social media app within the United States. Late Tuesday night, the Senate passed a foreign-aid package containing the proposed TikTok legislation in a 79-18 vote. Biden …
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If you’re one of the more than 150 million Americans who use TikTok, you may have heard that Congress passed a bill that could result in the incredibly popular app being banned. President Joe Biden signed it into law in April. The signing came after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly …
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After months of delays, the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package that would send funding to Ukraine and Israel — and encompassed a ban on TikTok — in a Saturday vote, despite the vocal opposition from some far-right members of Congress to the former. All 210 Democrats present …
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JT wants her next single to be a TikTok hit, whether her record label allows it or not. The City Girls rapper — signed to Universal Music Group’s Motown Records — took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, telling fans to share other versions of her upcoming single “Okay” to …
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Taylor Swift‘s catalog is once again available on TikTok, even as her record label, Universal Music Group, is still in the middle of a heated dispute with the influential short-form video platform. Back in February, Swift’s tracks were among the thousands pulled off TikTok after UMG announced that it hadn’t …
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It’s a tale as old as time —the heartwrenching, steam-inducing, bodice-clenching story of a woman falling head over heels in love with a man who’s more red flag than person. Except in the case of the best-selling book A Court Of Thorns And Roses and its subsequent series, author Sarah …
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