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TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app

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TikTok videos have gone silent after vast number of songs were removed from the app.

The disappearance is the result of a fallout between label Universal Music Group and TikTok, which it accused of not paying fairly for music rights.

Universal represents many of the world and TikTok’s biggest, and . All three of those have been the soundtrack to many of the site’s biggest recent trends.

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