Swedish supergroup ABBA has requested Donald Trump to cease utilizing their music at marketing campaign occasions, however the Republican presidential candidate’s marketing campaign says it has permission.
“ABBA not too long ago found unauthorized use of its music and movies at a Trump occasion by way of 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.”
“ABBA and its representatives have subsequently instantly requested the elimination and erasure of such content material. No such request has been acquired and subsequently no permission or licence has been granted.”
A Trump marketing campaign spokesman stated it had obtained a license. “The marketing campaign had a license to play ABBA music by way of our settlement with BMI and ASCAP,” the spokesman informed the AP.
ABBA joins a protracted record of artists who’ve opposed Trump utilizing their songs. Previous to the 2020 election, they included Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, John Fogerty, Neil Younger, Eddy Grant, Panic! on the Disco, REM and Weapons N’ Roses.
This cycle noticed Celine Dion ask the candidate to cease utilizing “My Coronary heart Will Go On” and Beyoncé block Trump from utilizing her tune “Freedom” in a marketing campaign video. In 2016, Adele requested Trump to cease taking part in her songs at political rallies.
Campaigners don’t want an artist’s categorical permission to play their songs at rallies, so long as the political group or occasion venue has obtained what is named a blanket license from the performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI.
Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that its reporter attended a Trump rally in Minnesota in July the place the tune “The Winner Takes it All” was performed. Common Music in Sweden stated movies of ABBA’s music taking part in throughout no less than one Trump occasion had surfaced.
ABBA, which has charted 20 songs on the Billboard Sizzling 100, largely within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, launched a comeback album, “Voyage,” in 2021.
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