It was seen from the beginning of May and this Thursday it became official: music stickers arrive on Instagram Stories .

Although the new feature is currently available only in a few countries will gradually reach the rest of the world. This was confirmed by the social network owned by Facebook in an email to Hypertext .

This is the first time users can add a soundtrack to their photo or video on Instagram Stories this way

They are used in the same way as GIFs, surveys and other features that we have available in the Stories menu. After taking a picture or video, click on the stickers menu button and choose the "music" button to display the list of songs.

In this section you can choose between different moods, genre or the most popular of the moment. Finally, advance or rewind the track to select the part you want to add to your story

Instagram note that on iOS, you can also choose the song before to make the photo or the To do this, you must slide to the music format of the mobile camera.

Once published, your subscribers will automatically listen to the song . You will also see a sticker of the song, which you can click to see the title of the song and the name of the artist.

Success = more users

The platform released the last 20 June which reached 1 billion monthly active users in the world. In addition to the announcement of music stickers, he also revealed that the number of Instagram Instagram Instagram users is already over 400 million .

With this new feature, Instagram continues to strengthen in the social media market. In addition, he leaves even further behind the direct competitor of Stories, Snapchat. In addition, the social network launched last week an application independent of dedicated to longer videos, IGTV with which she wants to get up on YouTube.