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Luke Hemmings Talks ‘Shakes’ & New Album Era

Luke Hemmings is introducing his new album era with the introspective “Shakes,” and to celebrate, the 5 Seconds of Summer vocalist sat down with Billboards‘s Rania Aniftos to discuss the writing process. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I already had a lot of ideas for the album from being on the road, a lot of it was written in hotels and planes and all the sad boy places,” he recalled with a laugh. “That’s where a lot of it came from. The chorus was written in New York, and I was experimenting…

Universal Music Group Removes Songs from TikTok: More Bad News |

TikTok has started to remove songs published by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) due to an ongoing licensing dispute with its parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG). A report has said that the short video format platform is losing more songs than anticipated, following the removal of songs owned or distributed by UMG in January.A report by TechCrunch said that the removal affected all songs written or co-written by songwriters signed to UMPG, regardless of who owns the recording. This means even songs by artists on other labels could be impacted if they contain UMPG-controlled compositions.Videos using impacted songs will…