TikTok has helped customers discover each present and previous musical artists, and now it is perhaps beginning its personal music streaming service. Parent ByteDance has filed a trademark utility with the US Patent and Trademark Office for “TikTok Music,” Insider has reported. The service would let customers “purchase, play, share, download music, songs, albums, lyrics… live stream audio and video… edit and upload photographs as the cover of playlists.. [and] comment on music, songs and albums.” 

ByteDance already has a music streaming app known as Resso, but it surely’s solely obtainable in India, Brazil and Indonesia. That app has among the options talked about within the trademark submitting, like playlists, song-sharing and neighborhood interplay. On high of that, TikTok redirects customers in Brazil to the total tune on Resso, as Insider notes.

The trademark utility was first submitted in Australia after which filed within the US on May ninth. It’s not clear if it intends to base such a service on Resso, but it surely has to display that it’s going to really use the trademark earlier than making use of for it within the US — so it is not only a placeholder, in line with Insider. The firm additionally described stated you can “live stream audio and video interactive media programming in the field of entertainment, fashion, sports, and current events,” as different attainable use circumstances.