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# Track how your sound is used on TikTok

The **UGC tracking** tab on a project follows TikTok sounds for your song. Paste a TikTok video or sound link and ANTHM checks that sound once a day: how many videos use it, how many new ones were posted, and how the top videos are doing.

## Add a sound

1. Open **Projects** and click the release or tracked song.
2. Click the **UGC tracking** tab.
3. Paste a TikTok link into **Paste a TikTok video or sound link** and click **Track**. A video link works too: ANTHM finds the sound the video uses.
4. Or type in **Search the Pulse catalog** and pick a sound from the list.

![The UGC tracking tab with the paste field, the Track button and the catalog search](https://ammdistro.com/helpdesk/anthm-ugc-tracking.webp =1200xauto)

You'll see "First check-in is running. Daily from here on." The first check-in starts right away, and the sound is read once a day after that. Adding a sound doesn't use a Pulse scan.

If TikTok already links sounds to your song, they appear under **Linked to this song on TikTok**. Click one to start tracking it.

Sounds from TikTok link requests you made for the release in AMM Distro are added to this tab automatically.

## Read the numbers

Click a sound in the list to see its numbers, or **All N sounds** to see them combined.

| Number | What it means |
|---|---|
| **Posts on the sound** | Total videos that use the sound, and how many were added since yesterday. |
| **New posts, 7 days** | Videos added in the last 7 days, with the daily average. It fills in after a few check-ins. |
| **Views on top videos** | Total views across the most popular videos read at the last check-in. |
| **Engagement** | Likes, comments and shares per view on those videos. |

The chart **Posts on the sound** shows new posts each day next to the running total.

## Top videos

The **Top videos** list shows the most popular videos on your tracked sounds, with the creator, their follower count, the post date and the sound used. Sort it by **Most viewed**, **Rising**, **Engagement** or **Newest**.

![The Top videos list with views, daily gain, likes, comments, shares and engagement](https://ammdistro.com/helpdesk/anthm-ugc-top-videos.webp =1200xauto)

* **Views**: the video's current view count.
* **Day**: views gained since the previous check-in.
* The heart, speech-bubble and arrow columns are likes, comments and shares.
* **Eng.**: likes, comments and shares per view.

## Sound labels

On your own releases, a sound can show one of these labels:

* **Linked**: TikTok links this sound to your release.
* **Link requested**: a request to link it was sent from AMM Distro.
* **Linked elsewhere**: TikTok links this sound to someone else's recording.

## Stop tracking a sound

Hover over the sound in the list and click the stop-tracking button. A sound you stop tracking isn't added back automatically, even if it came from an AMM Distro link request. If you add it again yourself, its earlier check-ins come back.

## Common questions

### A sound says "Queued for today's check-in". Is that a problem?

No. The sound is waiting for its first daily read. If you see "TikTok didn't answer; retrying", TikTok didn't respond to that read; it's tried again automatically.

### Why does the 7-day number show a dash?

It needs a few days of check-ins before there's a week to compare.

### Do I see every video on the sound?

No. **Posts on the sound** is the total count TikTok reports. The views, engagement and **Top videos** figures come from the most popular videos read at each check-in, not every video.

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