While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure
Duncan Cooper / Pitchfork : Tweets: @crispinhunt , @getalternative , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Crispin Hunt / @crispinhunt : THIS: 'there's a fundamental disconnect in the way music and tech do business. “The music industry and artists..all traditionally make money off of the sale or license of prerecorded music..Tech companies make their money from valuations on Wall Street ' http://pitchfork.com/... @getalternative : So @tiktok_us barely pays artists, uses unlicensed music, spies on its users AND still loses money every year??? Move over @Spotify. http://pitchfork.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform see very little of that money... http://pitchfork.com/...