TikTok is closing its Nashville office on Music Row and laying off all staff based there, with the office set to shut on 5 October. A spokesperson for TikTok USDS Joint Venture confirmed the closure in a statement: 'We have decided to close our Nashville office to streamline our operations and better align our teams for long-term growth.' The company confirmed the move to Nashville TV station FOX 17 News on Wednesday, 6 August Music Business Worldwide.

The New York Times reported that 250 employees are affected, according to labour documents filed with the state of Tennessee. The Nashville Business Journal separately reported that all of the office's staff had been laid off Music Business Worldwide.

The office occupies several floors of the Moore Building on 19th Avenue South, in the heart of Music Row — the Nashville district synonymous with the American music industry. TikTok signed the lease in 2024, taking more than 143,600 square feet, well above the 57,500 square feet the company had initially been expected to take. The deal made TikTok the anchor tenant of the Moore Building and ranked among Nashville's largest office leases in a decade, according to property data firm CoStar. Before moving into the Moore Building, TikTok had operated for several years out of a WeWork location in downtown Nashville.

The closure comes roughly two years after the lease was signed and more than six months after TikTok's US business was restructured into a new joint venture. That restructuring, completed in January 2026, was required under a 2024 US law that forced ByteDance — TikTok's Chinese parent company — to divest its US operations or face a ban. The new joint venture is led by Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX, with ByteDance retaining a 19.9% stake. As of 2023, TikTok said it employed around 7,000 people in the US.

The Nashville shutdown also follows a period of retrenchment in TikTok's music operations. The company shut its standalone TikTok Music streaming service in November 2024 and has since cut staff from its music division on more than one occasion. In October 2025, TikTok laid off around 15 staff from its US and Latin American music divisions, according to Billboard. Michael Kümmerle, TikTok's global head of music partnership development, was among senior music executives who left the company over the past year.

For a company that built much of its cultural weight on music — songs going viral on the platform can translate directly into chart positions and streaming revenue — the decision to walk away from a flagship office on Music Row carries practical weight. The 250 people losing their jobs in Nashville join a growing list of staff cuts across TikTok's music-related operations, and the closure leaves a large block of vacant office space in a city that has been one of the hottest commercial property markets in the US.