Short-form & Social
How to Get Your Music on TikTok
The dominant short-form video platform and music discovery engine.
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TikTok is the leading short-form video platform globally and one of the most important music-discovery surfaces of the past decade. Songs that go viral on TikTok routinely chart on DSPs weeks later. ByteDance licenses recordings from rightsholders for use in user-generated videos.
Notes delivers your music to TikTok's sound library so it's available for creators worldwide, and reconciles the licensing-pool royalties that flow back to recording rightsholders and publishers.
At a glance
TikTok at a glance
- Based in
- United States
- Pays
- Monthly
- Audio formats
- MP3WAVFLACAAC
- Territories
- Worldwide
How Notes works with this platform
What we do on TikTok
- Deliver. Notes delivers your music to TikTok's licensed sound library so it's available for creators worldwide.
- Register. Songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC so the publishing share of every use is paid.
- Collect. Per-use licensing royalties from TikTok are reconciled in one place, with no percentage taken from your earnings.
What you earn here
Royalties TikTok generates
TikTok
- Distribution
- Broadcast
- Publishing
- Performance
Your TikTok recording royalties reach you through Notes, and we register you with The MLC and your PRO so the rest is collected too, all paid to you in full with no percentage taken.
- Recording RoyaltiesRecording royalties are what the master earns: the recording revenue your distributor collects, plus digital-performance royalties.
- Mechanical RoyaltiesMechanical royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers each time a composition is reproduced, including every interactive stream and download.
- Performance RoyaltiesPerformance royalties are paid to songwriters and publishers when a composition is performed publicly: on radio, TV, in venues, or via streaming.
- Content ID RoyaltiesContent ID royalties are paid when your music is used in other people's videos on YouTube; its fingerprinting system finds the use and monetizes it for you.
Questions musicians ask
Common questions about TikTok
- How do I get my music on TikTok?
- Add your release in Notes and we deliver it to TikTok's licensed sound library, so creators can use your song in their videos worldwide, with your credits and ISRCs attached.
- Do I earn royalties when creators use my song on TikTok?
- Yes. Uses on TikTok generate royalties, and Notes reconciles them alongside the rest of your catalog, with no percentage taken from your earnings.
- Does Notes handle the songwriting side too?
- Yes. Your songwriter credits are registered with PROs and The MLC, so the publishing share of every use is collected alongside the recording side.
- What territories does TikTok cover?
- TikTok is available worldwide.
- How often does TikTok pay royalties?
- TikTok distributes royalties monthly.
- Where is TikTok based?
- TikTok is based in United States.
- What audio formats does TikTok support?
- TikTok supports MP3, WAV, FLAC and AAC.