{"id":217678,"date":"2024-11-26T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=217678"},"modified":"2024-11-26T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:29:33","slug":"deezer-becomes-latest-streaming-service-to-integrate-tiktoks-add-to-music-app-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/deezer-becomes-latest-streaming-service-to-integrate-tiktoks-add-to-music-app-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Deezer becomes latest streaming service to integrate TikTok\u2019s \u2018Add to Music App\u2019 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">TikTok has expanded its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/tiktok-expands-music-streaming-partnerships-for-direct-app-linking-into-19-new-markets234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u2018Add to Music App\u2019<\/a> feature, with Deezer joining the platform&#8217;s music discovery network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The feature, which has been rolling out progressively over the past year, allows <b>TikTok<\/b> users to save songs discovered on the platform to their preferred music streaming service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/tiktok-strikes-partnership-with-spotify-and-amazon-music-to-link-app-directly-to-music-streaming-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> in November 2023 with <b>Spotify<\/b>, <b>Amazon<\/b> <b>Music<\/b>, and <b>Apple<\/b> <b>Music<\/b>, the feature initially debuted in the US and UK before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/tiktok-expands-music-streaming-partnerships-for-direct-app-linking-into-19-new-markets234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expanding<\/a> to more countries. Last month, TikTok partnered with South Korea\u2019s <b>Melon<\/b>, owned by <b>Kakao<\/b> <b>Entertainment<\/b>, to expand the feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__tweeny hidden-xs hidden-ms hidden-sm\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"992 1200 1440\" data-name=\"628x90 Sponsor banner #5 (992+1200+1440)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_628\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_628\"><\/div>      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__banner mb-advert__banner--inline hidden-xs hidden-sm hidden-md hidden-lg\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"480\" data-name=\"468x60 Sponsor banner #5 (480)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_468\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_468\"><\/div>      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__mobile mb-advert__mobile--inline hidden-ms hidden-md hidden-lg\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-sizes=\"320 768\" data-name=\"300x50 Sponsor banner #5 (320+768)\" data-params=\"dfp_sponsor5_300\" id=\"dfp_sponsor5_300\"><\/div>      <\/div>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The latest partnerships with Melon and Deezer come as\u00a0TikTok recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/tiktok-to-shutter-music-subscription-service-tiktok-music-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosed<\/a> plans to shift its approach to the music streaming market by focusing more resources towards its\u00a0\u2018Add To Music App\u2019\u00a0feature and shutting down its\u00a0<b>TikTok<\/b>\u00a0<b>Music<\/b>\u00a0service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Thursday (November 28),<b> TikTok Music <\/b>will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/tiktok-to-shutter-music-subscription-service-tiktok-music-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut down<\/a> in the five regions where it currently operates (Indonesia, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and Mexico). In September, MBW reported, citing sources within TikTok, that the closure of TikTok Music is partly due to the company\u2019s strategy of partnering with external music streaming platforms to drive consumption on these platforms rather than directly competing with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__spu\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-name=\"300x250 Sponsor MPU #1\" data-params=\"dfp_spu1\" id=\"dfp_spu1\"><\/div>      <\/div>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With Deezer\u2019s integration, users can now click on the \u2018Add Song\u2019 button when encountering a track in their TikTok feed, automatically saving the song to their Deezer account. After the first use, Deezer becomes the default streaming service for future track saves, with the functionality accessible in both the For You Feed and on artist Sound Detail Pages.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Add to Music App has already been responsible for hundreds of millions of track saves, and billions more streams on music streaming services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Michael K\u00fcmmerle<\/b>, TikTok<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Michael K\u00fcmmerle<\/b>, TikTok&#8217;s Global Head of Music Partnership Development, said, &#8220;Add to Music App has already been responsible for hundreds of millions of track saves, and billions more streams on music streaming services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">      <div class=\"mb-advert__incontent\">      <div class=\"mb-advert mb-advert__spu\" data-loaded=\"no\" data-name=\"300x250 Sponsor MPU #2\" data-params=\"dfp_spu2\" id=\"dfp_spu2\"><\/div>      <\/div>      <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We are really excited that our new partnership with Deezer will give millions more music fans the opportunity to use this feature to save and enjoy the music that they love, and for artists around the world to benefit from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Matthieu Gorvan<\/b>, Deezer&#8217;s Chief Product and Technology Officer, added: &#8220;Discovering a new favorite song is a magical moment and we\u2019re dedicated to helping Deezer users hold on to that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWherever you find your latest obsession, we want to make sure it is effortless to add it to your playlists and explore more from the same artist. By creating a seamless integration between Deezer and social platforms, we help fans turn brief encounters with music into lasting connections, wherever they discover music.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feature allows TikTok users to save songs discovered on the platform to their preferred music streaming service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":217690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[131854,3938,486,133247,132195,5874,130231],"class_list":["post-217678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-add-to-music-app","tag-bytedance","tag-deezer","tag-matthieu-gorvan","tag-michael-kummerle","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}