TikTok Music shutting down after just one yearTikTok is shuttering its standalone music streaming service, TikTok Music, this November.
The Byte Dance-owned company says it will now be focusing its resources on its ‘Add To Music App’ feature, which lets users add tracks they discover on TikTok videos directly to a playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music.

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“Our Add to Music App feature has already enabled hundreds of millions of track saves to playlists on partner music streaming services,” Ole Obermann, Global Head Of Music Business at TikTok, said in a statement.
“We will be closing TikTok Music at the end of November in order to focus on our goal of furthering TikTok’s role in driving even greater music listening and value on music streaming services, for the benefit of artists, songwriters and the industry.”
The service, which launched in July 2023 and was available in Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore and Mexico, will terminate on 28 November, after which all renewals will be cancelled. Users will also have until 28 October to transfer their playlists to other streaming services.
The announcement comes just months after TikTok was forced to pull songs by artists including Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, and Rihanna from its platform due to a dispute with record label Universal Music Group.
In January, the music giant accused TikTok of trying to “bully” it into “accepting a deal worth less than the previous deal, far less than fair market value and not reflective of [its] exponential growth”. In return, TikTok claimed that UMG had — with their “self-serving actions” — “put their own greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters”.
A new settlement was eventually reached in May, which saw both sides working together in a new “multi-dimensional” licensing agreement, and music by artists under the UMG umbrella returning to the service.
In any case, the shutdown of TikTok Music marks the end of a years-long venture into music streaming by owner ByteDance. Prior to TikTok Music, the company operated a similar app called Resso with the hopes of funnelling TikTok users into a new standalone music service. The service was available in India, Indonesia, and Brazil.
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