TikTok has introduced that will probably be introducing new Songwriter Options to help unbiased artists in circulating their work throughout the platform.
The brand new options will enable songwriters to use to develop into licensed ‘Songwriter Accounts’. After being authorised, artists will add have the ability to add a ‘Songwriter Music Tab’ to their profile, permitting them to showcase tracks they’ve written.
“The brand new options imply that songwriters’ musical works and their shared content material will sit side-by-side in a single place on TikTok for the primary time,” the corporate explains. “[It will give] songwriters the chance to focus on the works they’ve written or co-written, to share tales about their work, their music and their lives, and to assist followers of their music to discover, use, share and save additional works from their catalogue.”
The introduction of such Songwriter Options was spurred on by MIDiA’s 2025 Songwriter Survey. The survey discovered that greater than 80% of songwriters surveyed depend on social media to share their work, with practically 1 / 4 claiming that constructing a robust social media presence was a prime precedence for 2025.
Most importantly, MIDiA discovered that 53% of full-time songwriters share their work on TikTok. In gentle of the information, TikTok felt the necessity to honour and assist its songwriting neighborhood. “We’re passionately dedicated to supporting songwriters at TikTok, which is why we constructed these instruments to have a good time and elevate songwriters and their work on our platform,” Jordan Lowy, World Head of Music Publishing Licensing and Partnerships at TikTok, says.
Whereas the brand new options are solely presently accessible in beta, they may hopefully be rolling out to everybody quickly. And it’s already being supported by music executives throughout the trade.
“We’re proud to associate with TikTok on this significant evolution in how music is skilled and credited,” Derek Cournoyer, SVP of World Digital Enterprise at Kobalt Music, notes. “Followers are more and more fascinated not solely with the artists they comply with, but additionally with how songs are written, who’s behind them, and the inventive journey that brings them to life.”
“These new songwriter options faucet into that curiosity by giving songwriters a dynamic technique to showcase their work, and TikTok is main the way in which in elevating how their contributions are recognised on digital platforms,” he concludes.
Warner Chappell Music’s Director of World Artistic Companies, Laura Willoughby, can be supportive of TikTok’s new Songwriter Options: “This marks a major step towards boosting songwriter visibility on TikTok. We’re seeing a rising pattern of music followers wanting to find and comply with the creators behind their favorite songs, and we’re proud to champion an initiative that enhances in-app songwriter and music discovery.”
Regardless of TikTok shutting down its music streaming service TikTok Music final yr, the platform itself stays a go-to for music discovery. The corporate’s 2024 Music Affect Report discovered that 84% of songs that entered the Billboard World 200 in 2024 went viral on TikTok first, in addition to the platform’s ‘Add to Music App’ function having generated over a billion saves.
Songwriters can signal as much as a waitlist to develop into an official Songwriter Account now.
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