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 video-sharing platform TikTok gained global popularity in the year 2019, and surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide in October 2020. [5] [6] TikTok has allowed many music artists to gain a wider audience, and has spawned several viral hit songs. [7] [8] [9] Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the platform has also launched many songs that failed to garner initial commercial success into sleeper hits. [10] [11] 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. [12] [7] [13] 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. [14] 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. [15] 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. |
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1 | September 14 | "SkeeYee" | Sexyy Red | [16] |
2 | September 23 | "Wassup Gwayy" | FamousSally & YB | [17] |
September 30 | [18] | |||
3 | October 7 | "Sky" | Playboi Carti | [19] |
4 | October 14 | "My Love Mine All Mine" | Mitski | [20] |
October 21 | [21] | |||
October 28 | [22] | |||
5 | November 4 | "Mr. Take Ya Bitch" | Lil Mabu & chriseanrock | [23] |
November 11 | [24] | |||
re | November 18 | "My Love Mine All Mine" | Mitski | [25] |
November 25 | [26] | |||
December 2 | [27] | |||
re | December 9 | "Sky" | Playboi Carti | [28] |
6 | December 16 | "Surround Sound" | JID & 21 Savage & Baby Tate | [29] |
December 23 | [30] | |||
7 | December 30 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [31] |
No. | Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Ref. |
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7 | January 6 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Mariah Carey | [32] |
8 | January 13 | "Misty" | Lesley Gore | [33] |
9 | January 20 | "Never Lose Me" | Flo Milli | [34] |
January 27 | [35] | |||
February 3 | [36] | |||
February 10 | [37] | |||
10 | February 17 | "Dance You Outta My Head" | Cat Janice | [38] |
11 | February 24 | "What You Won't Do for Love" | Bobby Caldwell | [39] |
12 | March 2 | "End of Beginning" | Djo | [40] |
13 | March 9 | "Carnival" | ¥$ featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti | [41] |
March 16 | [42] | |||
re | March 23 | "End of Beginning" | Djo | [43] |
14 | March 30 | "Someday I'll Get It" | Alek Olsen | [44] |
April 6 | [45] | |||
April 13 | [46] | |||
April 20 | [47] | |||
15 | April 27 | "Tell Ur Girlfriend" | Lay Bankz | [48] |
May 4 | [49] | |||
May 11 | [50] |
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