Universal Music Group

The rapper claims UMG “knowingly” approved the song despite its touchy lyrics and “designed” a viral campaign to “attack his character”

In a new legal dispute, Drake’s team alleged that Universal and Spotify “launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves”

The Limp Bizkit frontman previously said he and the band were not paid their royalties until recently, accusing UMG of “keeping those profits for itself”

"As the distributor of these tracks, Believe had specific knowledge of infringement or, at minimum, was actually aware of facts indicating a high likelihood of infringement"

"UMG just doesn't think it's their place to step in either way"

Universal Music Group withdrew its artists' music from the platform in late January after their prior agreement had expired

UMG withdrew all of their artists' music from the platform in January

The company responsible for sourcing Billboard data has since denied the claim

Up to 30 per cent of the platform's "popular songs" could be lost

In response, TikTok claims it has reached “'artist-first' agreements with every other label and publisher” and that “Universal's self-serving actions are not in the best interests of artists, songwriters and fans”