Taylor Swift Songs Return to TikTok Amid Royalty Fight

Taylor Swift’s new music can’t be denied, contained or banned from TikTok.

TikTok end users woke up on Thursday, April 11, to learn that the tunes she launched underneath Universal Audio Group was back on the streaming platform. Swift, 34, and other UMG artists experienced their songs yanked from the platform in late February immediately after the label and the social media system couldn’t concur on royalty fees. Now, about a thirty day period afterwards, Swift’s audio has returned.

“MY TAYLOR SWIFT EDIT AUDIOS ARE Again ON TIKTOK,” shouted one particular jubilant fan on X. “We gained!” reported fan X account@TheSwiftSociety, showing that tracks from Lover, Folklore, and the Taylor’s Variations of 1989 and Purple were offered. Around on TikTok, admirers commented on how Swift “IS THE Tunes Industry.” They theorized that, with her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Office, arriving in a week, acquiring her music unavailable for use wouldn’t fly.

Other lovers speculated that Swift’s possession of the grasp recordings of her UMG albums — Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and all the Taylor’s Variations re-recordings — authorized her to negotiate independently with TikTok to restore her audio. But a number of TikTok consumers mentioned that other UMG artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Terrible Bunny also had their songs restored. Us Weekly reached out to UMG for comment on this advancement.

No matter if Swift or UMG brokered a offer, fans ended up happy. Some celebrated the return by submitting videos of them lip-syncing to tracks like “Cruel Summer.” Other folks exclaimed that their videos that made use of Swift’s music weren’t muted any longer (however some observed “not all of [her songs] are” back again on the platform).

Swift and other artists’ new music vanished from TikTok soon after the system and UMG failed to achieve a new licensing offer. In an open up letter, UMG claimed that TikTok “proposed shelling out our artists and songwriters at a price that is a portion of the level that similarly located key social platforms spend.” UMG claimed the social media platform barely compensates artists and songwriters, saying “TikTok accounts for only about 1% of our total revenue” in spite of its “massive and developing consumer foundation.”

TikTok responded by expressing UMG was putting “their possess greed above the passions of their artists and songwriters.” The social media platform claimed that, with “well in excess of a billion end users,” it acts as a “free promotional and discovery car or truck for [UMG’s] talent.” TikTok also explained it’s been ready to establish an “artist-first” arrangement with each other label and publisher and claimed that UMG was not performing “in the best pursuits of artists, songwriters and followers.”

With Swift’s music again on TikTok, buyers will now be in a position to make movies exhibiting their reactions to The Tortured Poets Division. The recently minted billionaire’s new album, introduced as a result of Republic Data (a subsidiary of UMG), arrives on April 19.