Unless that artist owns and controls the rights. If the owner won’t license it to you, you can’t license it.
Though as goes playing at campaign events that’s that whole ASCAP thing. And like the jukebox at a bar goes with a blanket payment for any music instead of an individual rights and clearances thing. So that’s not something an artist or even record company neccisarily has control of, or even awareness of.
And it would usually be on the venue rather than on the people using the space.
You have no fucking clue what you’re doing.
