TikTok has become a cultural hub for music over the past several years, helping to catapult artists to stardom and their songs to the Billboard charts. Certain tracks have major impact on the app, ...

Researchers found TikTok and Spotify create very different hit songs, showing how streaming platforms influence what music goes viral.

Social media has played an important role when it comes to songs going viral and getting thousands of streams. More recently, stream boosts have come from TikTok influencers with large followings like ...

Capping off its most notable year to date, short-form video app TikTok — whose fast-growing hit-maker clout has been a defining story in 2020’s quarantined music industry — released its first music ...

What makes a song become a hit today? While listeners certainly play a role, new research suggests that streaming platforms and their algorithms also have a powerful influence on which songs rise to ...