To make your own sound on TikTok, add a voiceover, or record a separate video for audio purposes. If you don’t want to make your own sound, TikTok users have access to an in-app music library. Make your sound go viral by ensuring the audio is clean, short, and unique.
TikTok has deals in place with distributors and labels in order to license music for the app. Artists then receive royalties from having their music used on the platform. Distributors such as Distrokid, CD Baby and TuneCore allow artists to upload their music to TikTok along with streaming platforms such as Spotify.
Firstly, click on the “+” icon to create a new video in TikTok, or you can upload an existing video to it. Then, hit “Next.” Step 2. Then, tap on the “Voiceover” button to record your own sound.
As of June 2019, TikTok pays $0.030 per video created using your music. (That means ten thousand videos created using your music would generate about $300.)
While TikTok hasn’t revealed how its payment works, a 2019 estimate revealed that sound creators may get paid $0.03 per video (via Music Gateway). So, for instance, you’d make around $300 if 10,000 videos used your sound. Clearly, TikTok doesn’t pay the bills.
Alex Mitchell-Hardt
This article aims to answer all of your questions about how TikTok royalties work and how to maximize your revenue from the app. Update: Tunecore has clarified with their users that their TikTok royalties are being paid per video creation, not streams.
Currently, TikTok only lets businesses use music in their royalty-free library, other royalty-free sounds, or user-created sounds and songs. However, some third-party platforms may let you better integrate commercially published, popular songs to your videos.
But now, TikTok is paying real money to creators for views on their videos via the “Creator Fund” every month. TikTok pays between 2 to 4 cents per 1,000 views on a video. The payout varies depending on certain factors that aren’t disclosed by TikTok publicly.
TikTok pays content creators $0.02–$0.04 per every 1,000 views. This means you’ll get about $15 for 500,000 views and $40-$50 for 1 million views. It sounds insane—we know—especially when compared to YouTube, which pays between $2,000 and $4,000 for a million views.
According to our TikTok calculator, you will earn around $500 - $1000 per sponsored post, if you are received on average 50,000 views per post.
Now, you’ve got the Spotify music on your local computer, but you can’t directly import them to your TikTok. Because currently Tiktok doesn’t support adding local tracks, so you have to use a video editing app, like CapCut or InShot Video Editor.
As always, DistroKid passes on 100% of whatever earnings the streaming services send us for your streams/sales, minus banking fees/applicable taxes. Unfortunately, the rates they pay aren’t up to us – and we have no control over changing them. We just send along the exact amounts that streaming services send to us.
Tidal isn’t as popular as others, but it’s the streaming platform that pays the most, giving artists around up to $0.013 per stream. That comes out to Tidal paying $13,000 per 1 million streams.
To fix the TikTok “this sound isn’t available” or “your video has been muted” error: Re-upload the video without the copyrighted content, such as a song. Close and restart the TikTok app. Sometimes it’s just a temporary bug.
If your content already has a song that’s copyrighted, one thing you can do to prevent copyright is to add a sound to it while you are editing it on TikTok and reduce its volume to zero. When you use the editor on the app to add a sound on TikTok, your video won’t be removed due to copyright.
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