TikTok Music: Subscription-based music service to take on Apple, Spotify
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New Delhi: Chinese short-video-making app TikTok has launched its music streaming service named TikTok Music.
The subscription-only music streaming service has been launched first in Brazil and Indonesia.
TikTok Music is considered to be its parent company ByteDance’s second attempt to compete with music streaming giants Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.
The service replaces ByteDance’s existing streaming service, Resso, which will shut down on September 5 in Brazil and Indonesia.
The existing Resso users can easily transfer their accounts to the new TikTok app with just one click.
Ole Obermann, global head of Music Business Development at TikTok, said in a statement, “We are pleased to introduce TikTok Music, a new kind of service that combines the power of music discovery on TikTok with a best-in-class streaming service. TikTok Music will make it easy for people in Indonesia and Brazil to save, download and share their favorite viral tracks from TikTok”.
TikTok users can also sync their accounts with the Music app to listen, download, and share songs.
The service includes the catalogs of major record companies, including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music.
A TikTok Music subscription costs $3.49 a month in Brazil, and $3.25 for iOS users in Indonesia. Android users in Indonesia need to pay $2.96 a month for the first year, then $3.25 afterward.
TikTok Music doesn’t include a free membership option but offers a one-month free trial.
TikTok Music lets you play full versions of viral TikTok songs, discover personalised music recommendations, access lyrics in real-time, create collaborative playlists with friends, import your music library and find songs via lyrics search, said the report.
With inputs from IANS