The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a chart published weekly by Billboard in the United States. It ranks the most popular songs on the social media platform TikTok in the United States based on a combination of total creations, video views and user engagement on the platform. [1] [2] [3] The chart premiered on September 14, 2023, with the song "SkeeYee" by American rapper Sexyy Red at number one. [4] The longest running number one song on the chart is currently "Million Dollar Baby" by Tommy Richman, which stayed at the top for ten consecutive weeks. [5]
The video-sharing platform TikTok gained global popularity in the year 2019, and surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide in October 2020. [6] [7] TikTok has allowed many music artists to gain a wider audience, and has spawned several viral hit songs. [8] [9] [10] Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the platform has also launched many songs that failed to garner initial commercial success into sleeper hits. [11] [12] One of the first examples of this phenomenon is the song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X, which started as a meme on TikTok, and became one of the biggest songs of 2019 and the longest-running number-one song in the history of the US Billboard Hot 100. [13] [8] [14] A more recent example being 2023's "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat, which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok and became a worldwide hit. [15] A study by MRC Data found in July 2021 that 67% of TikTok users are estimated to be more likely to look up songs on digital streaming platforms after hearing them on TikTok. [16] While launching the chart, Billboard described TikTok as "the world’s most powerful platform for music discovery and promotion". [1]
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | September 14 | "SkeeYee" | Sexyy Red | [17] |
2 | September 23 | "Wassup Gwayy" | FamousSally & YB | [18] |
September 30 | [19] | |||
3 | October 7 | "Sky" | Playboi Carti | [20] |
4 | October 14 | "My Love Mine All Mine" | Mitski | [21] |
October 21 | [22] | |||
October 28 | [23] | |||
5 | November 4 | "Mr. Take Ya Bitch" | Lil Mabu & chriseanrock | [24] |
November 11 | [25] | |||
re | November 18 | "My Love Mine All Mine" | Mitski | [26] |
November 25 | [27] | |||
December 2 | [28] | |||
re | December 9 | "Sky" | Playboi Carti | [29] |
6 | December 16 | "Surround Sound" | JID & 21 Savage & Baby Tate | [30] |
December 23 | [31] | |||
7 | December 30 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [32] |
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | January 6 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [33] |
8 | January 13 | "Misty" | Lesley Gore | [34] |
9 | January 20 | "Never Lose Me" | Flo Milli | [35] |
January 27 | [36] | |||
February 3 | [37] | |||
February 10 | [38] | |||
10 | February 17 | "Dance You Outta My Head" | Cat Janice | [39] |
11 | February 24 | "What You Won't Do for Love" | Bobby Caldwell | [40] |
12 | March 2 | "End of Beginning" | Djo | [41] |
13 | March 9 | "Carnival" | ¥$ featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti | [42] |
March 16 | [43] | |||
re | March 23 | "End of Beginning" | Djo | [44] |
14 | March 30 | "Someday I'll Get It" | Alek Olsen | [45] |
April 6 | [46] | |||
April 13 | [47] | |||
April 20 | [48] | |||
15 | April 27 | "Tell Ur Girlfriend" | Lay Bankz | [49] |
May 4 | [50] | |||
May 11 | [51] | |||
16 | May 18 | "Million Dollar Baby" | Tommy Richman | [52] |
May 25 | [53] | |||
June 1 | [54] | |||
June 8 | [55] | |||
June 15 | [56] | |||
June 22 | [57] | |||
June 29 | [58] | |||
July 6 | [59] | |||
July 13 | [60] | |||
July 20 | [61] | |||
17 | July 27 | "Champagne Coast" | Blood Orange | [62] |
18 | August 3 | "Juna" | Clairo | [63] |
19 | August 10 | "Alibi" | Sevdaliza, Pabllo Vittar, and Yseult | [64] |
20 | August 17 | "Kehlani" | Jordan Adetunji | [65] |
August 24 | [66] | |||
21 | August 31 | "Symphony" | Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson | [67] |
September 7 | [68] | |||
September 14 | [69] | |||
22 | September 21 | "Disco" | Surf Curse | [70] |
23 | September 28 | "Rollin'" | BabyChiefDoit | [71] |
24 | October 5 | "Forever Young" | Alphaville | [72] |
25 | October 12 | "Maps" | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | [73] |
October 19 | [74] | |||
October 26 | [75] | |||
November 2 | [76] | |||
November 9 | [77] | |||
November 16 | [78] | |||
November 23 | [79] | |||
26 | November 30 | "Whatchu Kno About Me" | GloRilla and Sexyy Red | [80] |
27 | December 7 | "Rock" | Stepz | [81] |
re | December 14 | "Maps" | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | [82] |
28 | December 21 | "Like a Prayer (Choir Version)" | I'll Take You There Choir | [83] |
Number of weeks | Artist(s) | Song | Year(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
10 | Tommy Richman | "Million Dollar Baby" | 2024 | [61] |
8 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | "Maps" | 2024 | [79] |
6 | Mitski | "My Love Mine All Mine" | 2023 | [28] |
4 | Flo Milli | "Never Lose Me" | 2024 | [38] |
Alek Olsen | "Someday I'll Get It" | 2024 | [48] | |
3 | Lay Bankz | "Tell Ur Girlfriend" | 2024 | [51] |
Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson | "Symphony" | 2024 | [69] |
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