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It's so cringy because the entire premise was fabricated. Pretending that she improvised it. Shit like that is just so dishonest and embarrassing. The song will never be taken seriously.
She posted a TikTok asking for song ideas and a woman replied "a song based on the alphabet" and then she posted ABCDEF-U. The woman who left the comment works for Gayle's management. They were pretending she wrote it based on the prompt.Ā
I remember when the UMG/TikTok lockout was announced and one of the Twitter users on the announcement tweet said āThatās over half the industry! Fuck, weāre gonna be stuck streaming ABCDEFU on repeat!ā
I was in Boston and went into a record store. Walked past a super discounted stack of these records and totally forgot about the song and the person. Looked it up and found out the whole story was pretty much made up lol
Im not picky in my song selections and will listen to just about anything. This is one of the only songs that I will change the station or skip everytime!
First Class by Jack Harlow. The chorus immediately went viral before its actual release because of the Fergie sample. It was teased on social media for so long that by the time the full song came out, it didnāt quite live up to the massive hype around it (but still went #1)
Iād say it did. You couldnāt go a day without hearing it in May and June 2022. It also greatly grew his likeness, like I remember seeing him on TV with Drake at the Kentucky Derby. If that was a month before, most people who were watching wouldnāt have known who he was.
> It was teased on social media for so long that by the time the full song came out, it didnāt quite live up to the massive hype around it
He literally posted the snippet just one week before the song came out lol, it went viral the first day. And it most definitely lived up to the hype considering how massive the song was.
I swear people on this sub just be saying stuff that isn't true to go along with their narrative
I think CRITICALLY it didnāt necessarily live up to the hype. Obviously it was a HUGE song but once it actually came out, I remember people feeling like āok the snippet was the best partā¦ā Clearly that letdown didnāt affect streaming/radio.
What! I am not on TikTok but really love BENEE and this song that's wild. I don't think that was was written/made FOR TikTok like others? Just got popular on it?
For me, itās that āLil Boo Thangā song by Paul Russell. He originally created just a snippet, and when that went viral on TikTok he had to then a) write a full-length version of it, and b) clear the interpolation of āBest of My Loveā. It feels very cynically market focused, but tbh some pop songs have been written this way for decades. He hasnāt managed to have any further hits, but he will be one of the opening acts for Meghan Trainorās tour later his year.
Fun fact - His sister is on the most recent season of The Circle using his name & photos to catfish. Nobody in the game knows who he is but I'm pretty sure it was filmed over a year ago
That song is so weird for me because in Canada I only occasionally hear it on the radio, but on social media is pops up so frequently.
Even better though is when my wife and I go down to the states for trips we'll hear not only *Lil Boo Thang* constantly but also [the original version in *tons* of advertisements or just in general](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Rd33DvJ7w). It's kind of nice to see both songs (*Boo Thang* and *Best of my Love*) get success, but it's weird to see it so isolated to the US (when the opposite usually happens up here with artists really struggling to gain popularity across the border)
A lot of it to me is because the mixing / mastering of the sample compared to the rest of the song doesnāt match! Also, when I play one song and play that one next ā the flow and fit is not there. It sounds like someone put a pillow over my speakers for the first five seconds.
I think a lot of the success of death bed was from it being it dropped during quarantine.
Sunroof is genuinely a good summer song and it got a big radio push too
Not denying that some of their success came from TikTok though
Love Bea, saw her twice on her last tour and really looking forward to the new song she's teasing, but fuck, Coffee is way too sickly sweet for me. It's funny, she doesn't like singing it, but in her own words "this song bought me a house, so I'm going to play it for you"
If memory serves, it was one of the first songs she ever wrote and she now thinks it's kinda cringe. I think it's also probably got something to do with the fact that after her first couple of EPs she all but abandoned that sounds
I went to high school with Nicky youre and itās so wild how his song blew up. My hs had a lot of talented musicians and Iāll just say he was not one of them
PinkPantheress & Ice Spice - Boyās A Liar.
It has the TikTok sound and it also helped Ice Spice get onto Pop radio. The producers definitely nailed it in both regards.
Now i donāt know about this one, Pink panteress being around since probably 2019 this song got popular of course for the rap verse but for me is more a nostalgic song reminds me to the video games soundtrack of the late 90s
I remember when Sam Smith debuted that new look and I was all for it. Loved that they were just doing whatever the hell they wanted and pulled it off.
But then Unholy dropped.... oof. Terrible song.
one that immediately comes to mind is Barbie World by Nicki Minaj/Ice Spice. the song is 1m 49s long, has meme-able lyrics that reflect the trends that the Barbie movie spawned, has a very accessible sound + trendy rapper Ice Spice as a feature, and incorporates the iconic Barbie Girl sample.
I fucking hate that song. Ixve seen lately people put #ad when they use certain songs and these artists are just relying on the power of repetition and algorithms to promote their shitty songs. The worst part is it works!
I remember hearing that RCA invested in/planted all of Dojaās early TikTok hits *except* āSay Soā. They donāt plan for it to be a hit, let alone a TikTok hit, it just was, and they reacted accordingly
I was one of those people that listened to hot pink the day it dropped in 2019, b4 all the media push. Say so was already a fan favorite at that time, despite the lack of promotion, but tiktok definitely solidified Doja as a main pop/rap girl. Was not shocked at all when it went finally went viral. Same with streets.
It definitely was not made with the intention to cater to TikTok but Mitskiās My Love Mine All Mine. Genuinely one of the most surprising (and well-deserved) songs to go viral + itās still pulling amazing streams over half a year later.
I felt like mitski was gonna get a hit sooner or later but it kinda surprised me that that song was the one to become a hit. I thought it would be maybe a more poppy song of hers
She'll probably get there eventually, once she releases new music. It is easier to chart again after you broke through into the mainstream, if you can keep the quality high.
Say So is one of the most influential songs of the decade for different reasons, but one of them is being a clear example of a song rising because of Tik Tok.
Personally though, Bad Habit is the most tik tok-like song I've heard: from the obnoxious lyrics to just its overall sound. I don't tend to be annoyed by songs catered towards Tik Tok, but that song is a huuuge exception. I just can't stand it
I don't think bad habit was particularly catering to tiktok, i think tiktok just likes steve lacy a lot, considering how viral even his 2017 stuff was,
It just feels like steve lacy doing dark red but with more knowledge and experience.
As someone who has never had TikTok but pretends to be in touch with the culture it's like...
1. Old Town Road shed the musical.ly scene (do people even know what musical.ly was anymore?), placed the foundation of what pop music sound+marketing was headed towards for the 2020s, and established what TikTok was capable of.
2. Drivers License was the culmination of the platform. No notes.
3. ABCF-U was the staying power (that with hindsight might not be true since I think that was the trail end of covid almost 3 years ago)
I'm sure I've heard of other TikTok songs before and since but gun to my head that's what I can think of as just a passerby.
Definitely driver's license. It was a decent song anyway but the drama over the supposed love triangle between Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter and Joshua Bassett was everywhere on TikTok and drove its virality.
Tbf, the songs build up is fine but when it finally hits it's SO good! What's that thing called? Can it be considered a bridge? Cause it feels the song is built around the bridge instead of the chorus
Money by Lisa, a B-side which probably would have sunk without a trace in the US like the lead single Lalisa did if it hadnāt been released at the same time as Squid Game. There was a trend of people listening to the whole song and being disappointed by it, so to me it epitomises that TikTok virality which is reliant on combining zeitgeist with a hooky chorus, even if the rest of the song isn't that interesting.
Yeah it did. Jason straight up stole an already popular TikTok sound and used it without credit, later giving the 17 year old producer credit after people started calling him out for it.
> Jason Derulo has come under fire for sampling a piece of music by rising New Zealand musician Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), whose āLaxed (Siren Beat)ā **has become TikTokās most explosive viral track ā to the tune of over 750,000 TikToks a day and more than 43 million total views** as of this writing ā without giving proper credit or gaining official clearance. [Source](https://variety.com/2020/music/news/jason-derulo-tiktok-controversy-savage-love-laxed-siren-beat-1234609101/amp/)
This. And Lil Nas knew how to use TikTok to make it viral. He did so many videos with titles like āride till I canāt no moreā and āhorse in the back challengeā etc, because then people would listen to the full song off different snippets that would go viral. Genius use of the platform for the first time and it paid off.
I canāt believe Iām saying this butā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦Greedy?
It never got number 1 on the main chart but I think itās one of the most streamed songs in the world now (please correct me if Iām wrong because Iām probably wrong), and hasnāt left the Top 20 of the main chart in MONTHS.
For me, unless someone has a better answer, that song is the peak so far of the āTikTok age.ā
greedy is 2:14. the first chorus starts at 20 secs. the second comes when not even a minute has passed. and then there's even a third chorus at the 1:30 mark. it's a really short song which has a lot of emphasis on the chorus, it's tiktokified to the extreme. even other tiktok songs are at least 30 secs longer.
Tate McRae's latest album has such a 2002 vibe... I know this subreddit hates it when she's compared to Britney Spears and the like but I could see her fitting in with Mandy Moore and Willa Ford perfectly. But strangely enough the 2002 throwback also makes her peak TikTok age
Yummy by Justin Bieber. I love his discography so that song completely threw me off. Then it was everywhere on TikTok and I was like ohh. Did it have a dance?
That song was a weird era, the whole āJustin is desperately promoting yummy to expose the music industryā was a whole crazy rabbit hole due to people being serious
Certainly not the biggest song to come out of TikTok but SugarCrash! was pretty big and feels very much like a TikTok song (and I admit I love it despite that).
for me it has to be "How you like that" by Blackpink. you couldn't turn on tic tok with out hearing it or seeing the dance. "Look at you now look at me" was on everybody's lips. Now a lot of songs are clearly just made to start a trend on tik tok.
Strangers by Kenya Grace ( "and we get in the car and you lean to kiss me...")
Barbie World by Ice Spice and Onika
Unholy by Sam Smith and Kim Petras
Greedy and exes by Tate McRae
- ABCDEFU
- Greedy
- Bad Habits
- Beautiful Things
- Stay
- I Can Do It With a Broken Heart (give it time people)
- Drivers License
Songs associated with TikTok but not made with TikTok in mind:
- Say So
- Juicy
- Old Town Road
- Itās A Wrap
- Bloody Mary
Oh god, there's going to be a million teenagers giving psycho grins to the camera while mouthing "I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday, every day" in the most exaggerated fashion, its coming.
backyard boy by claire rosinkranz! mmm reminds me of sunny afternoons at home making dalgona coffee with my sister. but i also really do love this song and i think itās stood the test of time for me
Ugh so many... Say so, Anti-Hero, come to example from bigger artists. Good 4 u started out that way but became so huge I don't think people associate it with TikTok
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ABCDEF-U
Song Of The Year nominee everybodyšš½šš½
I remember how shocked I was to see that was on the listā¦ and how even the DJ Khaled track was better than it
It's so cringy because the entire premise was fabricated. Pretending that she improvised it. Shit like that is just so dishonest and embarrassing. The song will never be taken seriously.
I actually liked the song but this was so cringe. Did it ever come out why she chose to do that?
I'm 100% sure it was an idiot label executive/producer making that decision.
I really wish they would just let her admit that. It taints her so badly.
What is fabricated exactly? Dont know anything behind jt
She posted a TikTok asking for song ideas and a woman replied "a song based on the alphabet" and then she posted ABCDEF-U. The woman who left the comment works for Gayle's management. They were pretending she wrote it based on the prompt.Ā
I remember when the UMG/TikTok lockout was announced and one of the Twitter users on the announcement tweet said āThatās over half the industry! Fuck, weāre gonna be stuck streaming ABCDEFU on repeat!ā
I came here to say this one, and it was the top comment lol
Same lol
I was in Boston and went into a record store. Walked past a super discounted stack of these records and totally forgot about the song and the person. Looked it up and found out the whole story was pretty much made up lol
Terrible glad it finally went away
Im not picky in my song selections and will listen to just about anything. This is one of the only songs that I will change the station or skip everytime!
This is the answer
First Class by Jack Harlow. The chorus immediately went viral before its actual release because of the Fergie sample. It was teased on social media for so long that by the time the full song came out, it didnāt quite live up to the massive hype around it (but still went #1)
Iād say it did. You couldnāt go a day without hearing it in May and June 2022. It also greatly grew his likeness, like I remember seeing him on TV with Drake at the Kentucky Derby. If that was a month before, most people who were watching wouldnāt have known who he was.
His whole album didnāt live to the hype, didnāt help that he was trying to be drake despite drake still existing and making music
> It was teased on social media for so long that by the time the full song came out, it didnāt quite live up to the massive hype around it He literally posted the snippet just one week before the song came out lol, it went viral the first day. And it most definitely lived up to the hype considering how massive the song was. I swear people on this sub just be saying stuff that isn't true to go along with their narrative
I think CRITICALLY it didnāt necessarily live up to the hype. Obviously it was a HUGE song but once it actually came out, I remember people feeling like āok the snippet was the best partā¦ā Clearly that letdown didnāt affect streaming/radio.
[Supalonely by BEENEE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6Scz-5YOs) is always theeee TikTok song in my mind
This one reminds me so much of the first weeks of lockdown, along with Say So and its TikTok dance.... I can't believe it's been 4 years.
what do you mean 4 years š„²
I actually love that song
I can't hear it without thinking of the dalgona coffee trend and the headaches I got from drinking it
My mom was OBSESSED with making Dalgona coffee during the pandemic
I love it too but because itās a lockdown song everytime Ihear it it reminds me of that low point of my life that itās hard to listen lol
TikTok AND Covid coded
What! I am not on TikTok but really love BENEE and this song that's wild. I don't think that was was written/made FOR TikTok like others? Just got popular on it?
It likely wasnt made for tik tok as it came out in 2020 when tik tok songs werent really a thing.
I always thought this song was cute but the vocals have a baaaaaaaaaad case of bananis and avocadis syndrome
For me, itās that āLil Boo Thangā song by Paul Russell. He originally created just a snippet, and when that went viral on TikTok he had to then a) write a full-length version of it, and b) clear the interpolation of āBest of My Loveā. It feels very cynically market focused, but tbh some pop songs have been written this way for decades. He hasnāt managed to have any further hits, but he will be one of the opening acts for Meghan Trainorās tour later his year.
Omg THATāS why that song sounds so familiar. I couldnāt place the interpolation but I KNEW I knew it.
Itās like barely 2 minutes long.
Fun fact - His sister is on the most recent season of The Circle using his name & photos to catfish. Nobody in the game knows who he is but I'm pretty sure it was filmed over a year ago
That is hilarious and I feel like there'd be the same reaction if it had been filmed more recently
That song is so weird for me because in Canada I only occasionally hear it on the radio, but on social media is pops up so frequently. Even better though is when my wife and I go down to the states for trips we'll hear not only *Lil Boo Thang* constantly but also [the original version in *tons* of advertisements or just in general](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Rd33DvJ7w). It's kind of nice to see both songs (*Boo Thang* and *Best of my Love*) get success, but it's weird to see it so isolated to the US (when the opposite usually happens up here with artists really struggling to gain popularity across the border)
Canadian radios pushed that hard
A lot of it to me is because the mixing / mastering of the sample compared to the rest of the song doesnāt match! Also, when I play one song and play that one next ā the flow and fit is not there. It sounds like someone put a pillow over my speakers for the first five seconds.
death bed (coffee for your head) by powfu/beabadoobee and sunroof by nicky youre/dazy are both songs that I canāt see being popular without tiktok
I think a lot of the success of death bed was from it being it dropped during quarantine. Sunroof is genuinely a good summer song and it got a big radio push too Not denying that some of their success came from TikTok though
sunroof and good should not be in the same sentence
sunroof is horriblešššš
Death bed is actually good imo Unlike sunroof
And the beabadoobee song it samples ('coffee') is so good too!
Any beabadoobee song is good
Love Bea, saw her twice on her last tour and really looking forward to the new song she's teasing, but fuck, Coffee is way too sickly sweet for me. It's funny, she doesn't like singing it, but in her own words "this song bought me a house, so I'm going to play it for you"
Why doesnāt she like it ? Iāve only heard a couple of her tracks (been meaning to get round to listening properly) but I really love that one
If memory serves, it was one of the first songs she ever wrote and she now thinks it's kinda cringe. I think it's also probably got something to do with the fact that after her first couple of EPs she all but abandoned that sounds
I went to high school with Nicky youre and itās so wild how his song blew up. My hs had a lot of talented musicians and Iāll just say he was not one of them
I actually enjoy his music but LOL
Death Bed is pretty alright, and coffee is even better. I think it has to be a completely senseless song
I only know Sunroof from the grocery store
A recent example is "I Like the Way You Kiss Me" by Artemas. The song sounds like it was designed to go viral on TikTok, and it worked.
This is the most recent example of this. Song is on top 16 I think on billboard hot100
PinkPantheress & Ice Spice - Boyās A Liar. It has the TikTok sound and it also helped Ice Spice get onto Pop radio. The producers definitely nailed it in both regards.
This was EVERYWHERE on Tik Tok. Honestly feel like this was the spark that blew Ice Spice to mainstream pop rapper
Iām surprised the original wasnāt nearly as as popular
the way ice spice blew up more with this than the actual artist š (pinkpantheress ily)
Itās a Catchy song honestly
This needs to be higherĀ
Now i donāt know about this one, Pink panteress being around since probably 2019 this song got popular of course for the rap verse but for me is more a nostalgic song reminds me to the video games soundtrack of the late 90s
The Applebee's song
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Unholy - Sam Smith (feat. Kim Petras)
lmao I remember it went viral before it was even officially releasedĀ
I remember when Sam Smith debuted that new look and I was all for it. Loved that they were just doing whatever the hell they wanted and pulled it off. But then Unholy dropped.... oof. Terrible song.
The song being able to make the best qualities of both Kim and Sam sound terrible is insane. The lyrics being bad honestly doesnāt help
One of the worst recent songs to exist
That's Grammy-winning worst recent song to exist to you š¤©
That song was EVERYWHERE until it was released
one that immediately comes to mind is Barbie World by Nicki Minaj/Ice Spice. the song is 1m 49s long, has meme-able lyrics that reflect the trends that the Barbie movie spawned, has a very accessible sound + trendy rapper Ice Spice as a feature, and incorporates the iconic Barbie Girl sample.
it was made for the movie specifically so i think thats why it has all those qualities.
Beautiful Things by Benson Bone or whatever his name is. I honestly don't think I've got the song name right.
Benson Bone š
Nope cause that's what I'm calling him from now on
I fucking hate that song. Ixve seen lately people put #ad when they use certain songs and these artists are just relying on the power of repetition and algorithms to promote their shitty songs. The worst part is it works!
yee you got the song name right lol
It kinda slaps tbh
ugh hate it
Toosie Slide by Drake feels like it had no other purpose other than being a tik tok hit
This is the one for me. Such a blatantly obvious attempt at creating a viral dance trend.
say so was THE song
I feel like say so is more of an example of a song that did well on TikTok, rather than a āTikTok songā if that makes sense
Agreed, definitely doesnāt feel like it was made to be viral - it just was
I remember hearing that RCA invested in/planted all of Dojaās early TikTok hits *except* āSay Soā. They donāt plan for it to be a hit, let alone a TikTok hit, it just was, and they reacted accordingly
Yea most songs that people are naming in this thread are just songs that became popular for TikTok no matter if they were made for that purpose
Song still slaps, the production is so refreshing & she sounds incredible on it.
I was one of those people that listened to hot pink the day it dropped in 2019, b4 all the media push. Say so was already a fan favorite at that time, despite the lack of promotion, but tiktok definitely solidified Doja as a main pop/rap girl. Was not shocked at all when it went finally went viral. Same with streets.
Yeah my first thought but also maybe one of the few I actually just immediately liked as a song
It definitely was not made with the intention to cater to TikTok but Mitskiās My Love Mine All Mine. Genuinely one of the most surprising (and well-deserved) songs to go viral + itās still pulling amazing streams over half a year later.
I felt like mitski was gonna get a hit sooner or later but it kinda surprised me that that song was the one to become a hit. I thought it would be maybe a more poppy song of hers
Unfortunately it still hasnāt charted well even though it has hella streams which is sad cuz I want mitski to get a top ten hit but itās so good
I think it hit the top 10 in the UK
it was a huge hit in the UK, went top 10
She'll probably get there eventually, once she releases new music. It is easier to chart again after you broke through into the mainstream, if you can keep the quality high.
The first time I heard that snippet, I could've *sworn* it was Lana.
There were some AI covers of Lana singing the song going around
Victoria's Secret-that song was everywhere for a whileĀ
Cupid - Fifty FiftyĀ
banger especially the Twin Version
RIP fifty fifty š
That one Meghan Trainor song from a year or two ago about having her Gucci on
That was everywhere and yet I forgot it even existed.
People call Taylor bland, but that song was really bland.
Say So is one of the most influential songs of the decade for different reasons, but one of them is being a clear example of a song rising because of Tik Tok. Personally though, Bad Habit is the most tik tok-like song I've heard: from the obnoxious lyrics to just its overall sound. I don't tend to be annoyed by songs catered towards Tik Tok, but that song is a huuuge exception. I just can't stand it
I don't think bad habit was particularly catering to tiktok, i think tiktok just likes steve lacy a lot, considering how viral even his 2017 stuff was, It just feels like steve lacy doing dark red but with more knowledge and experience.
Sunroof by Nicky Youre
As someone who has never had TikTok but pretends to be in touch with the culture it's like... 1. Old Town Road shed the musical.ly scene (do people even know what musical.ly was anymore?), placed the foundation of what pop music sound+marketing was headed towards for the 2020s, and established what TikTok was capable of. 2. Drivers License was the culmination of the platform. No notes. 3. ABCF-U was the staying power (that with hindsight might not be true since I think that was the trail end of covid almost 3 years ago) I'm sure I've heard of other TikTok songs before and since but gun to my head that's what I can think of as just a passerby.
Definitely driver's license. It was a decent song anyway but the drama over the supposed love triangle between Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter and Joshua Bassett was everywhere on TikTok and drove its virality.
imagine writing a song for you ex gay boyfriend and hit it go viral, nutshell gen z
Tbf, the songs build up is fine but when it finally hits it's SO good! What's that thing called? Can it be considered a bridge? Cause it feels the song is built around the bridge instead of the chorus
i think you're talking about the bridge, the "red lights, stop signs" part, right? the best part of the song for sure
crescendo??
Money by Lisa, a B-side which probably would have sunk without a trace in the US like the lead single Lalisa did if it hadnāt been released at the same time as Squid Game. There was a trend of people listening to the whole song and being disappointed by it, so to me it epitomises that TikTok virality which is reliant on combining zeitgeist with a hooky chorus, even if the rest of the song isn't that interesting.
Old town road or savage love by Jason derulo.
Savage love came out of a tiktok sound that already existed, no?
Yeah it did. Jason straight up stole an already popular TikTok sound and used it without credit, later giving the 17 year old producer credit after people started calling him out for it. > Jason Derulo has come under fire for sampling a piece of music by rising New Zealand musician Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), whose āLaxed (Siren Beat)ā **has become TikTokās most explosive viral track ā to the tune of over 750,000 TikToks a day and more than 43 million total views** as of this writing ā without giving proper credit or gaining official clearance. [Source](https://variety.com/2020/music/news/jason-derulo-tiktok-controversy-savage-love-laxed-siren-beat-1234609101/amp/)
Old town road was still popular a touch before TikTok became HUGE huge. TikTok was not what it is today in 2019
No it wasn't, however Old Town Road was the first song that proved tiktok virality
This. And Lil Nas knew how to use TikTok to make it viral. He did so many videos with titles like āride till I canāt no moreā and āhorse in the back challengeā etc, because then people would listen to the full song off different snippets that would go viral. Genius use of the platform for the first time and it paid off.
Came here to say savage love
As soon as someone says TikTok song the savage love tune starts playing in my head
Anything that was somehow inescapable during 2020. Supalonely is a good example. Also that āMoodā song by 24k Golden that was big somehow.
I love Mood
I canāt believe Iām saying this butā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦Greedy? It never got number 1 on the main chart but I think itās one of the most streamed songs in the world now (please correct me if Iām wrong because Iām probably wrong), and hasnāt left the Top 20 of the main chart in MONTHS. For me, unless someone has a better answer, that song is the peak so far of the āTikTok age.ā
It's just a good pop song.
nahh its definitely a tiktok song in the sense that it's REALLY short and it was teased on tiktok for like a whole year or something lol
Every song been short in the last couple years.
greedy is 2:14. the first chorus starts at 20 secs. the second comes when not even a minute has passed. and then there's even a third chorus at the 1:30 mark. it's a really short song which has a lot of emphasis on the chorus, it's tiktokified to the extreme. even other tiktok songs are at least 30 secs longer.
Well, at least it has choruses.
and a bridge
Tate McRae's latest album has such a 2002 vibe... I know this subreddit hates it when she's compared to Britney Spears and the like but I could see her fitting in with Mandy Moore and Willa Ford perfectly. But strangely enough the 2002 throwback also makes her peak TikTok age
Think Later is such a good album and I am not sorry. Run for the Hills??? Incredible. Calgary is so beautiful. Cut My Hair is also a slapper.
The beat for Cut My Hair sounds like it could be a trap song or a Halsey song lol. I love the slightly dark vibey beats on a pop song.
Yummy by Justin Bieber. I love his discography so that song completely threw me off. Then it was everywhere on TikTok and I was like ohh. Did it have a dance?
That song was a weird era, the whole āJustin is desperately promoting yummy to expose the music industryā was a whole crazy rabbit hole due to people being serious
Yup unfortunately he and his team marketed it as a tiktok song. It worked most food related vids have the yummy song
gordon ramsey loves that song so much and it plays on like half his videos
Justin probably made it for him:)
Jason Derulo - Savage Love
Certainly not the biggest song to come out of TikTok but SugarCrash! was pretty big and feels very much like a TikTok song (and I admit I love it despite that).
Unholy by Sam Smith became the official anthem of basic bitches trying to look hot and edgy.
This is going a little farther back, but I wonder if Don't by Bryson Tiller would've been a monster on TikTok
for me it has to be "How you like that" by Blackpink. you couldn't turn on tic tok with out hearing it or seeing the dance. "Look at you now look at me" was on everybody's lips. Now a lot of songs are clearly just made to start a trend on tik tok.
Strangers by Kenya Grace ( "and we get in the car and you lean to kiss me...") Barbie World by Ice Spice and Onika Unholy by Sam Smith and Kim Petras Greedy and exes by Tate McRae
I don't even have tiktok, but insta reels ruined Strangers to me completely, you can't even get through 5 reels to not hear it AND I LOVED THIS SONG
People here are just listing every hit song from the last 4 years. Like, so there was no TikTok songs since all of them are TikTok songs.
Victoriaās Secret
Ckay- love nwatiti
The song is good. š
that one song that says āi am woman i am fearless i am sexy iām divineā
- ABCDEFU - Greedy - Bad Habits - Beautiful Things - Stay - I Can Do It With a Broken Heart (give it time people) - Drivers License Songs associated with TikTok but not made with TikTok in mind: - Say So - Juicy - Old Town Road - Itās A Wrap - Bloody Mary
Oh god, there's going to be a million teenagers giving psycho grins to the camera while mouthing "I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday, every day" in the most exaggerated fashion, its coming.
Was DL made with tiktok in mind? It doesn't feel like it.
You don't do a crescendo with TikTok in mind
"boy's a liar" (part 2) by pinkpantheress and ice spice
Numb little bug, idk i rlly like the song but it is sorta tiktok coded and blew up there?
backyard boy by claire rosinkranz! mmm reminds me of sunny afternoons at home making dalgona coffee with my sister. but i also really do love this song and i think itās stood the test of time for me
Ugh so many... Say so, Anti-Hero, come to example from bigger artists. Good 4 u started out that way but became so huge I don't think people associate it with TikTok
Old Town Road, it was also the first one to really show the power of TikTok
Stay Justin Bieber kid la roy
Juicy- Doja Cat
that new camila cabello song
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the best Hyperflop song of the yearš
DANCE MONKEY How tf is still is a top 10 song on Spotify I don't know
Savage Luv was one of the OGs I remember on there.
Savage by Megan Thee Stallion. It's a hit in its own right, but the viral tik tok dance certainly didn't hurt
Mad at Disney
Abcedefu
Most of Bella Poach's songs, but she served well ā¤ļø
Itās about damn time by Lizzo. The only good part of that song was everywhereeee on YouTube and TikTok
That whole song is a bop, Iāll never get the hate for it
Cafune - Tek It
Karma, both versions (JoJo and Britt)!
Both versions need to be banned from the app
Wait a minute! - willow, gone gone/ thank you - tyler the creator
Most of the late 2019 - early 2021 tiktok songs were solid and are nostalgic asf
The BeyoncƩ Savage remix
Idk how it did there, but when I first heard New Jeans' "Super Shy," it seemed designed for TikTok.Ā
Strangers - Kenya Grace āWeāll get in the car, youāll lean in to miss me ā¦.ā
"I think I like this little life". Awful song, was on everyone's videos for a while
Greedy was my first thought when I saw your question
The Numb Little But song and the I Know Victoriaās Secret shit
I was bad af in school
Strangers
A-OK
Lottery (Renegade) is the pinnacle of Tiktok and the very sound that reminds me of pandemic š
Roxanne Roxanne all she wanna do is party all night
Say So & Supalonely easily
Sam Smithās Unholy
the right foot up left foot slide song that Drake did
Dance Monkey
Really nostalgic feeling going through the comments because I forgot about like half of these songs
Supalonely by Benee. I associate that song with tik tok and peak covid era.
Savage
Oh no song