Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Backstreet Boys tracks on China blacklist

Artists' songs among 100 that music websites must remove because they had not been submitted for approvalThe Backstreet Boys may Want It That Way, but China's ministry of culture most certainly does not.Officials have placed the boy band's anodyne 1990s hit on a blacklist of 100 songs that music websites must remove by 15 September, alongside hits by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Britney Spears.A notice from the ministry said the songs had not been submitted for approval. A 2009 directive designed t...

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