TIKTOK—which hasn't yet been sold, hasn't had its first actual date with ORACLE, hasn't stopped working in the US and hasn't departed in any tangible way from business as usual since it became the world's biggest business and technology story in August, does anyone remember August?—is continuing to pretty much run the music business as if it's no big deal. The #1 song and #1 album in the US, by 24KGOLDN and POP SMOKE? Everything and something, respectively, to do with TikTok, according to this all-TikTok edition of Billboard's weekly pop chart conversation, "Five Burning Questions." Your new favorite indie-pop singer CLAIRO's first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100? TikTok. Seventy-one-year old ex-FLEETWOOD MAC guitarist LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM riding a horse while swigging cranberry juice to a track from a 43-year-old record that's the seventh best selling album in the US? Do you have to ask? Like the best Top 40 radio stations, TikTok doesn't particularly care what genre or gender or generation your song is; it just cares that it's catchy and that its users like—and can use—the hook. That one song from Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS? Yes, please. Every song on DOJA CAT's HOT PINK? Yup, those too. The artist royalties are notoriously not so great but, as someone might have told you at some point in your journey, and maybe you spilled a bottle of cranberry juice on them when they did, think of the exposure. When a TikTok user went viral recently with a MAC DEMARCO clip with an unauthorized edit, the service offered to take the clip down. "And we said, 'Absolutely not,'" OMNIAN MUSIC GROUP's MATT BRINKWORTH told reporter ELI ENIS. We may be at the exact moment where the Wild West rules of the service are in philosophical sync with the buttoned-up needs of the lawyers and label executives back East. Can that last? An ominous prediction from Billboard's ANDREW UNTERBERGER: "As labels and artists figure out how better to position their singles for proper TikTok consumption, I think we could definitely see albums with four or five singles showing up on the service almost one at a time, like they would have as music videos on MTV 20-30 years earlier." That's just about the worst idea for an app I've ever heard. Please don't let it happen, Oracle, or TikTok, or WALMART, or whoever's in charge next month... But not all apps. Here are record companies dropping DMCA bombs on TWITCH... Your semiannual reminder: SPOTIFY doesn't have per-song royalty rates. Nor do its competitors... Award winners: BAD BUNNY (Artist of the Year) and DADDY YANKEE (Hot Latin Song of the Year) at the BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS, and CARRIE UNDERWOOD (Video of the Year) and GABBY BARRETT (Breakthrough Video) at the CMT MUSIC AWARDS... HENRY THREADGILL, ALBERT "TOOTIE" HEATH, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON and PHIL SCHAAP are the 2021 NEA JAZZ MASTERS... After months of frustration, TOOL and JUDAS PRIEST fans on Long Island get the pandemic ticket refunds they were owed.. RIP indie-rock bassist/producer CHET "JR" WHITE of GIRLS, experimental jazz trumpeter TOSHINORI KONDO, Philadelphia International Records in-house bassist JIMMIE WILLIAMS and opera singer turned teacher RUTH FALCON.