TikTok Artist Mareux Says UMG Pulling Music From App Hurts Label’s Small Artists

Universal Music Group wiping their songs from TikTok goes to harm the label’s smaller artists essentially the most … so says a musician who noticed the app elevate his personal creative model.

Mareux had his 2015 cowl of The Cure’s “The Perfect Girl” go viral in 2021 and it vaulted him to a Coachella efficiency … an astronomical leap he feels will go away amid the UMG/TikTok dispute.

Mareux tells TMZ … UMG saying they’re pulling songs from TikTok to assist artists financially is shady … he says if UMG actually cared about their artists they’d beef up their contracts, not destroy their limitless alternatives on TikTok.

The approach Mareux sees it … artists getting their music built-in into TikTok posts is a superb advertising and marketing device. He says the publicity generated on TikTok can actually change an artist’s profession, prefer it did for him.

Mareux says UMG is simply being plain grasping right here … and he feels dangerous for the lesser-known artists who have been counting on TikTok to market their music … telling us they have to be feeling tremendous confused.

UMG has an enormous roster … Taylor Swift, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Bad Bunny, Ice Spice, Rosalía … and Mareux explains how the established acts are going to be impacted too.

Mareux’s an ideal instance of what TikTok can do for a comparatively unknown musician … his ‘Perfect Girl’ cowl was kinda floating within the abyss for six years till it went viral on TikTok … and he says he would not have a profession now with out the app.