ByteDance In The News

Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company?

Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...

From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too

TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms

NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music over ‘unfair competition’ claims

NetEase announced the legal proceedings in a social media statement

ByteDance launches new music streaming service in China

App is called Qishui Yinyue, and its catalog currently features 10m music tracks

From the United States’ $15bn revenue to Downtown’s $200m indie artist fund: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

TuneCore strikes partnership with ByteDance-owned video platform Douyin

Douyin is a sister app of TikTok for the Chinese market

TikTok just launched its own music distribution platform, SoundOn

SoundOn can distribute music to other music platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and Instagram