TikTok"s "Add to Music App" feature is getting support for another streaming service: YouTube Music. This comes a few months after the short-form video giant brought the feature to SoundCloud.
"Add to Music App", if you have not heard of it, is a feature launched back in November 2023, initially for US and UK users, that makes saving music a lot easier.
With this feature, users get an "Add Song" button next to the track name at the bottom of a TikTok video. When a customer first uses the feature, they can select their preferred streaming service from the available options, and this choice then becomes the default for all future one-tap saves (this can be changed anytime in the app"s settings).
The new YouTube Music integration means you can directly save the track to the streaming service with a single press. Users can also add a track from an artist"s Sound Detail Page.
When "Add to Music App" first appeared, the options were limited to Spotify and Amazon Music. Since then, TikTok has added Apple Music and Deezer. Each service gets a designated spot for the saved tracks, like Spotify"s "Liked Songs" playlist. In YouTube Music"s case, the song will land in a dedicated "TikTok Songs" playlist, so you do not have to go hunting for it later.
TikTok claims that its "Add to Music App" function has resulted in over 1 billion saves globally since its wider rollout in 2024.
On a related note, you probably are already aware of the current divest-or-ban issue TikTok"s facing in the US. Howard Lutnick, the US Commerce secretary, recently stated in an interview with Fox News Sunday that President Trump loves the platform and sees it as "a good way to communicate with young people," but the platform"s US operations must be handled by an American company, not Chinese.