In an open letter, TikTok states that they were unable to reach an agreement with UMG. The music giant says it will pull its entire music catalog from the platform on January 31. Ice Spice has announced that their debut album, titled 'Y2K', will be released later this year. SZA has confirmed that a collaboration with Paramore is in the works. Adele will play four shows in Germany this summer. Taylor Swift tops the Power 100 list. And more!
Tetris Kelly:
Some of your favorite artists leave TikTok, updates from Adele, Ice Spice and SZA, Taylor Swift graces the cover of Billboard. We catch up with Grammy nominees Black Pumas and 6lack running through his playlist.
Welcome to another episode of Billboard News. I'm Tetris Kelly. It's Wednesday January 31st and we have a great episode for you. Let's kick things off with our top story.
BTS, Taylor Swift, Drake, some of your favorite songs and artists might be missing from TikTok and it's all due to a dispute with Universal Music Group. And let us break it down for you. To make this as simple as possible, Universal Music Group believes that artists should do more than their music on TikTok. In a letter, the music giant accused the wildly popular platform of trying to build a music-based business without paying fair value for the music. Their contract expires today January 31st and UMG houses record labels like Republic with artists like Taylor Swift, HYBE and their artists are on UMG so no more Jimin, BTS or NewJeans dances and even artists like Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny are under the music giant. UMG says it will pull its entire music catalog from TikTok when its contract with the service expires today, and cited other issues such as the level of hate and harassment on the platform and TikTok's positions on artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence. TikTok is calling its narrative false saying that UMG has put their own greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters, will this affect your use of the platform? We'll keep you updated on Billboard.com.
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