This news comes ahead of Taylor Swift’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, due on April 19.
Taylor Swift’s songs have finally returned to TikTok after a gap of 10 weeks. This happened after a licensing dispute between the social media app and Universal Music Group.
As of now, multiple Taylor Swift’s hit numbers like “You Belong With Me,” “Lover,” “Cardigan,” “Mirrorball,” “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” “Cruel Summer,” “Cardigan,” “Style (Taylor’s Version),” “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version),” “The Man” and “ME!” have all come back on the TikTok app. Users can now successfully incorporate these songs on their videos.
Taylor’s songs were removed from TikTok in February, after the app and UMG failed to renew a licensing pact that expired on January 31. Universal Music accused TikTok of trying to “bully” the music company into a deal worth less than their previous agreement. They alleged that TikTok was not willing to address AI and piracy concerns.
TikTok slammed those claims and said that Universal was engaging in “false narrative and rhetoric.”
This update comes just in time as Taylor Swift is ready to release her next studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. It is due for release on April 19.
It’s possible that Taylor Swift has made this breakthrough happen between the parties and that she partners with TikTok to promote her upcoming album. She did the same for her last album, Midnights. For that album, she dropped a track reveal video for every track on the album, exclusively to the platform.
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