TikTok has launched Songwriter Features, a collection of new tools meant to let artists spotlight their work on the app, taking yet another step toward becoming an indispensable aspect of the music scene. With a Songwriter Tab identifying a selection of their penned or co-written compositions, songwriters can register for a Songwriter Account that will denote them as such on their profile. For the first time, TikTok said on Thursday, July 17, composers will collaborate and their shared work will live side by side on the platform.
The Songwriter Hub and Songwriter Pages that Spotify launched in 2020 seem much like the TikTok features. Along with podcasts and special features geared toward composers, those qualities introduced Written By playlists to the streaming platform.
This is the most recent in a series of efforts to formalize the connection between TikTok, which has grown to be a major center of music discovery over the last ten years, and music firms and to improve integration of the program with the music scene.
In 2023, it introduced the Add to Music App option, which lets users save a song they heard on TikTok to their chosen music streaming service including Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and others. SoundCloud was the newest streaming service to include the function in May.
Last year, TikTok started testing in-app experiences meant to coincide with fresh album releases. Its first such experience linked in with Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” release. After being discreetly beta-tested with a small group of artists, TikTok for Artists, an analytics tool, rolled out in 26 countries last month.
Songwriters and publishers who want to join the beta test can fill out a wait list form here.
