Swedish supergroup ABBA has requested Donald Trump to cease utilizing their music at marketing campaign rallies, however the Republican presidential nominee’s marketing campaign says it has permission.
“ABBA has just lately found the unauthorized use of their music and movies at a Trump occasion via movies that appeared on-line,” stated a press release to The Related Press from the band, whose hits embrace “Waterloo,” “The Winner Takes It All” and “Cash, Cash, Cash.”
“In consequence, ABBA and its consultant has promptly requested the elimination and deletion of such content material. No request has been acquired; due to this fact, no permission or license has been granted.”
A spokesman for the Trump marketing campaign stated it had obtained a license. “The marketing campaign had a license to play ABBA music via our settlement with BMI and ASCAP,” the spokesperson informed the AP.
ABBA joins a protracted checklist of performers who’ve objected to Trump utilizing their songs. Forward of the 2020 election, that included Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, John Fogerty, Neil Younger, Eddy Grant, Panic! on the Disco, R.E.M. and Weapons N’ Roses.
This cycle, Celine Dion has requested the candidate to cease utilizing “My Coronary heart Will Go On” and Beyoncé blocked Trump from utilizing her music “Freedom” in a marketing campaign video. In 2016, Adele requested Trump to stop taking part in her songs at political rallies.
Campaigns don’t want an artist’s specific permission to play their songs at rallies so long as the political group or the venue has gotten what’s often called a blanket license from the performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI.
Swedish each day newspaper Svenska Dagbladet stated its reporter in July attended a Trump rally in Minnesota the place “The Winner Takes it All” was performed. Common Music in Sweden stated movies had surfaced of ABBA’s music being performed at a minimum of one Trump occasion.
ABBA, who’ve scored 20 songs within the Billboard Scorching 100, largely within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, launched a comeback album, “Voyage,” in 2021.
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