TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters

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

These caller features physique upon immoderate of TikTok’s existing tools for songwriters, including the “New” tag that appears connected recently released euphony and the quality 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 the making of their music, successful summation to the much precocious launched “Off the Record” series with artists similar Shakira, Charli XCX, and Meghan Trainor.

Music is simply a immense portion of TikTok, with the level helping boost the popularity of songs and adjacent drive TikTokers to stardom. It has besides worked with artists similar Taylor Swift to physique hubs to beforehand their music, and added the quality 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 with a “limited number” of steadfast partners. Songwriters and publishers tin motion up for a waitlist to summation entree to these features successful the future.