Short-form & Social
How to Get Your Music on TikTok
The dominant short-form video platform and music discovery engine.
Visit TikTok →TikTok is the leading short-form video platform globally and the most important music-discovery surface of the past decade — songs that go viral on TikTok routinely chart on every DSP 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.
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 — no percentage taken from your earnings.
What you earn here
Royalties TikTok generates
TikTok
- Recording
- Songwriting
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, never a 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 track 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 — not just the recording side.