TikTok has lengthy touted the app as a spot to find new music — and its capability to propel songs into viral hits.

Now TikTok is hoping to derive incremental income from music followers who use the app. The corporate’s new Add to Music App characteristic lets customers save songs from TikTok to third-party music streaming companies. Initially, TikTok’s Add to Music App is launching for customers within the U.S. and U.Okay. in partnership with Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. TikTok stated it’ll roll out the characteristic in additional markets within the coming months.

Phrases of TikTok’s agreements with the digital streaming platforms (DSPs) aren’t being disclosed; a supply aware of the scenario stated no cash is altering palms. The power so as to add a music from TikTok to Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music is aimed toward growing the utility of TikTok for music listeners, after all. Past that, although, TikTok sees the potential to monetize integration with DSPs by means of its SoundOn music advertising and marketing and distribution program for artists.

The characteristic is separate from TikTok Music, a premium music-streaming service and app that’s at the moment out there to customers in Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and Singapore. The corporate doesn’t have plans at this level to launch TikTok Music within the U.S.

The Add to Music App characteristic seems as a button that claims “Add Music” subsequent to a monitor title on the backside of a TikTok video within the For You feed. The primary time a person presses the “Add Music” button, they choose their most well-liked music streaming service. The monitor will then be saved to a default playlist in both Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music, or customers can select so as to add the monitor to a brand new playlist or an present playlist. As well as, TikTok customers can use the Add to Music App characteristic from an artist’s Sound Element web page.

“TikTok is already the world’s strongest platform for music discovery and promotion, which helps artists join with our world neighborhood to drive engagement with their music,” stated Ole Obermann, TikTok’s world head of music enterprise improvement, in an announcement. The Add to Music App characteristic “takes this course of a step additional, making a direct hyperlink between discovery on TikTok and consumption on a music streaming service, making it simpler than ever for music followers to benefit from the full-length music on the music streaming service of their alternative, thereby producing even larger worth for artists and rightsholders.”