If you are an indie musician who has their original compositions and wants in on the fame and fortune TikTok brings, you might want to enlist the help of one of the many music distributor companies that officially catalog songs into TikTok.
These music distributors act as a middleman between you and TikTok by standardizing the format of your uploaded songs. They also release your songs to other song-sharing apps like Spotify, iTunes, YouTube Music, Deezer, and many others.
1. Enroll as an artist with a music distributor like Distrokid or Tunecore.
2. Make sure to check the box that declares that you want your music released on their TikTok service.
3. Pick a release date for your song.
4. On the day of your song’s release, go to TikTok, search your name and use that song.
5. Try to be the very first one to use your song as a sound to get the ‘Original’ tag on that video.
6. As the original curator of the song, users can go back to your TikTok account profile where they will see links to your musical profile as an artist. This way you have TikTok working to funnel traffic and diversify your approach to more reach and viral exposure.