Her music Taylor Swift is back on TikTok, despite the fact that the singer’s label, Universal Music, and the platform are at loggerheads over artist compensation and Artificial Intelligence.

Swift’s music comeback comes a week before the release of her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department”. Swift’s return to TikTok has been in the works for some time, the Financial Times reported.

The “Queen of Pop” owns the copyright to her recordings through a deal she signed in 2018 with Universal, which allows her to control where her work is distributed, unlike many other artists.

Universal Music stopped licensing its content to the TikTok and TikTok Music services when their previous agreement expired on January 31. Universal Musicthe world’s largest music label, posted some time ago an open letter, accusing the platform of bullying and complaining about “how little the company compensates artists and composers.” TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, said for its part that all of the above is not true.

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TikTok then removed thousands of songs from its platform and shut down videos containing those songs, written by any composer signed to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). This meant that some of the world’s most popular music – including the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Harry Styles, Drake, Sting, the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Adele, U2, Coldplay and Post Malone – disappeared from his music catalog.