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YouTube’s missing hits will come back now that it has a deal with SESAC

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YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend. Many hit songs from artists such as Adele, Nirvana, and others disappeared, which YouTube blamed on the lack of an agreement to renew its existing deal.

SESAC stands for the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, and its website says that it “currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers.”

As of 4:25PM ET, removed songs like Adele’s Hello and Kanye West’s Power are still not playing.

“We’re pleased that SESAC reconsidered our offer. We’ve reached a deal and content will come back up…

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