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Sony Music Removes Catalog From Boomplay

Sony Music has removed its catalog from Boomplay due to late royalty payments from the streaming service, which has a sizable user base in Africa.

Sony Music pulled its catalog from the streaming service Boomplay on Monday (Dec. 9) due to late royalty payments, Billboard has confirmed. “The African music industry is not like in America or Europe where there is one big label who takes care of thousands of artists,” Phil Choi, Boomplay’s head of international acquisitions and partnerships, said at the time. When TIDAL was sued in 2021, the complaint revealed that the platform had $127 million in liabilities, mostly in the form of unpaid streaming fees to record labels.

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