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Tiktok is the leading destination for short-form, mobile video and it allows you to let your fans create and share fun viral videos using your music. And hey, you may even get new fans! 

Think of TikTok as a discovery tool. Most of the videos are 15 seconds long and can help potential fans discover your music. By using our Social Video Monetization service, those new fans can find you at our partners like Apple, Spotify, or Tidal, and stream your songs!

 

Eligibility

In order for your music to be delivered to TikTok, you must be opted into Social Video Monetization. You can check here for information about SVM eligibility.


To see how you can opt in, check here.

 

How do I add my music to TikTok?

Check out the DIY Musician Minute with Chris Robley for a video on how to add your music to this new platform!

 

TikTok Custom Clip Times

While you may see other songs with varying clip times, CD Baby's agreement with TikTok only allows for 15-second audio clips at this time. The total amount of audio you or a fan can choose from is actually 60 seconds, but only 15 seconds of that audio will be able to appear in a video clip.

Once a user has selected your song, they will have the ability to trim any part of those 60 seconds into a 15-second clip. The lovely folks at our DIY blog have a super helpful how-to video on how to add music to TikTok here.

How are the 60-second clips chosen? Good question! CD Baby's agreement with TikTok allows artists to select custom clip times for the tracks we deliver to their platform. When signing up your new album or single in your CD Baby account, there will be a page in the submission process that asks for the desired start time of the clip for each track.

However, if no custom clip times are selected, TikTok uses an algorithm that determines what it thinks will be the best spot within the track for that 60 seconds of audio to come from.

 

TikTok earnings

An artist earns money when a new video is CREATED and their music is added to that video from the SOUNDS library inside the app.

TikTok serves videos to viewers based on its own internal algorithm. Viewers don't search for specific videos. Therefore, the number of viewers or views a video has doesn't affect how much the creator of the underlying music earns. What does affect your earnings is the number of new, unique videos your music can be heard in.

 

Why do some TikTok sales show no money earned?

We report both the views and the number of new videos created in your CD Baby account. The views will show $0.00000 earned.

The reports may post on separate days, but we will post both the new videos created (which earn you money) and the number of views (which don't).

 

How do I get my song linked to my TikTok profile?

At this time, your TikTok artist profile must be verified in order to link with your music. Unfortunately if you do not have a verified TikTok profile, there’s currently no way to link your music to it. 

 

How do I get verified on TikTok?

You can apply through TikTok to be considered for a verified badge. Full eligibility details and application instructions can be found in TikTok's support center here. 

*Please note, links to third-party sites are provided purely for informational purposes and we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information. These sites are not governed by our artist agreement and privacy policy.

TikTok's Commercial Library

TikTok’s Commercial Music Library (CML) is available for use by TikTok accounts listed as a "Business" rather than "Public Figure." Content included in the CML is heavily curated on a track by track basis. While it is possible an artist may see some of their catalog added to this library, at this time we are not able to request the addition of specific tracks or whole catalogs to the CML.

Need some reading materials?

Check out our DIY Musician Blog posts about the announcement here and a promotional guide on how to use TikTok here.

 

 

 

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