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ELI5: What does Vevo do, and why do they automatically get rights to music from big artists?

If you go on YouTube and search the name of any popular song, there will be a channel with ArtistnameVEVO that has the song, and usually has the most views. What makes them so special?
gpt
Once upon a time, youtube was the wild west. People posted music videos and songs from popular artists without a care in the world. It was a fast, free way to get music if one person posted a video of the music and album art so the whole world could enjoy without having to pay for or even download anything, some musicians even released their songs on their own youtube channels.

Then the record companies said "Yeahhhhh no. We're gonna need some way to get our money."

So Sony Music entertainment, Universal music group, and EMI got together and made a deal with youtube to be the "official" music-provider on the site, making channels for all musicians that they owned, releasing their music through their channels only, and taking down the channels that posted the music freely.

There was a pretty big backlash when this first happened, mostly because Vevo was one of the first channels to feature long, unskippable ads before the audio would play, obviously to generate revenue while keeping the service "free".

 Youtube promotes it so that's why it has the most views, and because the other videos that had the most views were quickly taken down for copyright infringement.