Save songs you love with TikTok’s new Add to Music app

TikTok users will now be able to save the songs they love on the platform.

Following its successful launch in the US and UK , TikTok has announced that “Add to Music App” is now rolling out to users in 19 new countries including South Africa.

Add to Music app is a new feature which allows users of the platform the ability to save the songs they discover on TikTok on the music streaming services of their choice, including Apple Music and Spotify.

The feature is also being rolled out to Germany; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; Vietnam and the Philippines amongst others.

How it works

Basically, the music app has been designed to help users capture songs that they love on TikTok in the moment of discovery and to easily save the song to their preferred music streaming service to enjoy whenever they like.

The feature appears as a button that says “Add Song” next to a track name at the bottom of a TikTok video in the “For You Feed,” inviting users to save the song to the music streaming service of their choice.

The first time a user presses the Add Song button, they can choose to save it to their preferred music streaming service such as Apple Music and Spotify.

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The track is then saved to a default playlist in the preferred music streaming service, but users can also choose to add the track to a new playlist or an existing playlist that they have created.

Following the first use of the Add to Music App feature, the music app selected will then become the default music streaming service for future track saves, although users can select to change the default music streaming service at any time under settings.

Users can also use the Add to Music App feature from an artist’s Sound Detail Page.

‘Incredible response’

Ole Obermann, TikTok’s Global Head of Music Business Development, said they have already had an incredible response to the launch of Add to Music App in the US and UK.

“Music fans are embracing the opportunity to save music from TikTok directly to their favourite music streaming services, driving music discovery and helping more tracks to break through and become hits,” he said.

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