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    Legislation banning TikTok is coming this week. How will it affect the music industry?

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Apr 24, 2024 4 minutes
    Doja Cat headlines at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14 in Indio, California.

    On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the popular app, or it would be blocked in the U.S.

    While the legislation would have profound impacts across the tech, political, entertainment, media and marketing worlds, music may be especially affected. TikTok's first incarnation was as a lip-syncing app, Musical.ly, and the app dominates music discovery for young listeners. If the app were banned in the U.S., it would upend the ways artists communicate with their fans, how old songs gain new life (and huge publishing deals), and how 170 million American users discover new music.

    Earlier this month, The Times published at the future of TikTok in the music

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