A "and VK encountered problems with Western innovations – RBC

The latest musical releases of Western performers are temporarily inaccessible to users of Russian streaming services. Problems with the replenishment of catalogs have, in particular, Yandex.Musicism and VKontakte

Yandex.Musiki and VK are faced with problems with Western innovations

The latest musical releases of Western performers are temporarily inaccessible to users of Russian streaming services. Problems with the replenishment of catalogs have, in particular, Yandex.Musicism and VKontakte

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Russian music services cannot add the latest releases of Western performers to their libraries. The restriction of access to the novelties of some foreign companies in RBC was reported in the press services of Yandex.Musicism and VKontakte.

So, Yandex.Musik said that “access to some new tracks of some foreign copyright holders is still limited in Russia”: “We are working with our partners on resolving the issue. Catalogs loaded to the service until last week are available in full. ”

What kind of tracks are now inaccessible to users, the company was not specified in the company, but they recalled that Universal, Warner and Sony Music publicly publicly declared restrictions on work in Russia.

“VK Music” faced a similar problem. Despite the fact that the content of labels who announced the suspension of activities in Russia are available users of the service, their new releases are “temporarily not produced”. “The decision on the spot withdrawal of their tracks is made by artists, but these are isolated cases,” the VKontakte press service added. For example, earlier the British rock band Pink Floyd and its leader David Gilmore said they will remove their songs from streaming services in Russia and Belarus.

Of the significant musical novelties of the last week in the Yandex.Music libraries and VK, as the RBC correspondent was convinced, in particular, the Rammstein “Zeit” single on March 10 is Universal).

In addition, many foreign artists have already abandoned performances in Russia. So, the planned concerts were canceled by Franz Ferdinand, The Killeers, Green Day, Imagine Dragons, Iron Maiden and others.

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