TikTok tests music-streaming service in Australia, Mexico and Singapore

TikTok is launching its subscription-based euphony streaming work successful Australia, Mexico and Singapore to a tiny radical of trial users connected Wednesday.

The enlargement comes aft the fashionable abbreviated video app launched TikTok Music successful Indonesia and Brazil earlier this month.

"We are inviting users successful Australia, Mexico and Singapore to enactment successful the TikTok Music closed beta trial from today," the institution said successful a statement. Participants volition beryllium offered a escaped three-month proceedings to trial the service.

Mexico is TikTok's fourth-largest marketplace with 62.4 cardinal progressive users aged 18 years and above, according to DataReportal, aft the U.S. (116.5 million), Indonesia (113 million) and Brazil (84.1 million).

TikTok has plans to boost maturation successful different markets extracurricular of the U.S. — its largest marketplace — wherever Montana became the first state to ban TikTok. The app is besides banned successful India. TikTok's CEO antecedently said the institution volition pour "billions of dollars" into Southeast Asia implicit the adjacent fewer years.

TikTok Music allows users to sync the music-streaming work to their TikTok accounts.

"TikTok Music is simply a caller benignant of euphony work that combines the powerfulness of euphony find connected TikTok with a euphony streaming work offering millions of tracks from thousands of artists," a spokesperson said.

The institution added TikTok Music volition "help users listen, stock and download the euphony they person discovered connected TikTok, arsenic good arsenic stock their favourite tracks and artists with their TikTok community."

TikTok Music volition vie against Spotify and Apple Music, the ascendant services successful these markets. For example, Spotify accounts for implicit 80% of euphony subscriptions successful Mexico.

Wednesday's announcement is the latest successful TikTok's increasing efforts successful euphony streaming.

On Tuesday, the institution announced an expanded licensing agreement with Warner Music Group.

Earlier this month, TikTok-owner ByteDance said it volition shutter its music-streaming work Resso successful Indonesia and Brazil pursuing the motorboat of TikTok Music. The institution said Resso users could transportation their accounts to TikTok Music instead.