TikTok Music starts streaming in Indonesia

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Tech company ByteDance has launched TikTok music, a premium subscription music service, in Indonesia, according to a statement by platform.

The new social music streaming service will play on TikTok's power to help users discover new music by helping them to enjoy their favorite trending songs on TikTok Music, giving subscribers the ability to listen, download, and share full songs with their community, and switch from TikTok to TikTok Music with ease.

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TikTok Music will also offer users with the ability to easily sync their TikTok and TikTok Music accounts, listen to full versions of tending songs on TikTok, discover more personalised music, connect with a music community, engage with real-time song lyrics, creative collaborative track lists and more.

Users will also be able to import their external music playlists into TikTok Music, find out what songs they are listening to though a song catch feature, listen to music offline and discover new and up-coming artists and musicians.

Through this premium-only subscription service, TikTok Music aims to offer a high-quality listening experience to users while also increasing opportunities and revenue for artists and copyright holders, it said.

Ole Obermann, the global head of music business development at TikTok noted that he sees a lot of opportunities on TikTok Music for fans and musicians and noted the potential it has to drive significant value in the music industry.

With the launch, ByteDance also confirmed that music streaming service Resso will cease its operations in Indonesia as on 5 September this year. Resso users can move their accounts to TikTok Music seamlessly, and all new TikTok Music users will be given a one-month free trial on the new streaming platform.

The news comes months after it was revealed that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance had been drawing up plans with music labels about expanding its music-streaming service globally bringing the heat against streaming giant Spotify.

The Wall Street Journal report added that ByteDance wants to gradually include the service to be integrated within TikTok, a popular short-form social video hosting service, while serving as a platform for distributing its music-streaming service worldwide.

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