Tiktok Is Putting The Spotlight On Songwriters

TikTok will now fto songwriters item tracks they’ve written aliases co-written straight connected their profiles. The database of songs will unrecorded wrong nan “Music” tab connected their profile, akin to nan 1 TikTok already offers for artists connected nan platform. Users who registry arsenic songwriters will besides get a “Songwriter” explanation beneath their relationship name.

These caller features build upon immoderate of TikTok’s existing devices for songwriters, including nan “New” tag that appears connected recently released euphony and nan expertise for users to prevention a opus connected a euphony streaming service. TikTok besides rolled retired a “BehindTheSong” hub successful 2023, wherever songwriters, artists, and producers tin stock much astir nan making of their music, successful summation to nan much precocious launched “Off nan Record” series pinch artists for illustration Shakira, Charli XCX, and Meghan Trainor.

Music is simply a immense portion of TikTok, pinch nan level helping boost nan popularity of songs and moreover drive TikTokers to stardom. It has besides worked pinch artists for illustration Taylor Swift to build hubs to beforehand their music, and added nan expertise for users to prevention songs to their SoundCloud accounts successful May. In 2023, it launched a standalone euphony streaming app, but unopen it down in 2024. 

For now, TikTok is launching its caller songwriter features successful a closed beta pinch a “limited number” of patient partners. Songwriters and publishers tin motion up for a waitlist to summation entree to these features successful nan future.