Universal holds the rights to some of the world\u2019s biggest artists, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Ariana Grande.<\/span><\/p>\n The company previously reached a deal with TikTok in February 2021, which enables users on the app to include clips from its music catalogue in their videos.<\/span><\/p>\n However, on Tuesday (30th January), Universal said<\/a>\u00a0that its agreement with the social media platform has not been renewed, and that it would remove all of its songs from TikTok when the current deal ends on Wednesday 31st January.<\/span><\/p>\n Read on for everything you need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n UMG has threatened to pull its entire song catalogue from TikTok after talks between the two companies fell through.<\/span><\/p>\n In an open letter<\/span><\/a> titled Why We Must Call Time Out on TikTok published on Tuesday, <\/span>Universal Music accused TikTok of attempting<\/span> to \u201cbully\u201d them into accepting a deal that was only \u201ca fraction\u201d of the rate other similar social media platforms pay for access to its catalogue.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTikTok\u2019s tactics are obvious: use its platform power to hurt vulnerable artists and try to intimidate us into conceding to a bad deal that undervalues music and shortchanges artists and songwriters as well as their fans,\u201d UMG wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n In a response,<\/span> TikTok accused Universal of presenting a \u201cfalse narrative and rhetoric\u201d, and putting \u201cgreed above the interests of their artists and songwriters\u201d by discarding the \u201cpowerful support of a platform with well over a billion users that serves as a free promotional and discovery vehicle for their talent\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement<\/a>, TikTok added: \u201cTikTok has been able to reach \u2018artist-first\u2019 agreements with every other label and publisher. Clearly, Universal\u2019s self-serving actions are not in the best interests of artists, songwriters and fans.\u201d<\/span><\/p> Find something to watch tonight with our TV Guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013 subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Songs from artists including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Ariana Grande could be disappearing from the platform. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":44899,"template":"","categories":[1,8],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-scaled.jpg",2560,1708,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/why-are-so-many-songs-leaving-tiktok-universal-issues-explained-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Songs from artists including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Ariana Grande could be disappearing from the platform.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/44898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why are so many songs leaving TikTok? Universal issues explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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