Old Town Road was the most listened to Country song in the US in the past year (according to RIAA certifications)

The NMPA Gold & Platinum Program has announced the top country songs and songwriters for the past year
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NMPA names top Gold & Platinum songwriters for Q1 2020; Lil Baby leads with 22 certifications

805 songwriters were certified Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum in Q1
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NMPA: ‘The new TikTok Transparency Center will be hollow unless it includes transparency about what music is being used on the app’

New facility to allow ‘outside experts’ to see how the platform moderate content on the platform
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Music publishers and Peloton reach settlement over copyright infringement lawsuit

They will also work together to ‘further optimize’ Peloton’s music licensing systems and processes
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Peloton’s antitrust counterclaim against music publishers dismissed

Exercise giant alleged that the NMPA “coordinated to collectively negotiate licenses in violation of antitrust laws”
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