The beat continued to play, and Kanye ran around in a circle with an oversized coat draped over his body, as if a ghost was haunting the stadium. For the next 110 seconds, Fivio Foreign dug deep, letting us in on his demons, his paranoia, and the stressful tightrope walk of trying to move differently in the midst of life-changing success, before punctuating the verse by confessing, “I been tryin’ so hard not to move reckless.” As those words lingered in the air like a cliffhanger, Twitter exploded, immediately declaring it one of the best rap verses of the year. Deep, gliding bass-the signature sound of the Brooklyn drill movement-ripped through the arena, setting the stage for one of New York’s most promising stars to step up and deliver a career-defining performance. When Carti’s verse ended, Kanye got up off his makeshift mattress and started doing push-ups. 5, Kanye West stood in the middle of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium at the second Donda listening session, as a haunting beat played. After a short intro from Kanye, Playboi Carti’s voice blasted out of the speakers and hundreds of volunteer dancers completely lost their shit, thrashing around to baby-voice lines like, “I just bought me some brand-new clothes, Dover Street Market!” When the world heard the best song of 2021 for the first time, it wasn’t quite finished yet.
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See the full breakdown of TikTok’s 2021 music report here.Producers: Kanye West, 30 Roc, AyoAA, Ojivolta, David & Eli, Sloane Meanwhile, Destiny’s Child “Bills, Bills, Bills,” Kid Cudi’s “Day ‘n’ Nite,” and Reba McEntire’s “I’m A Survivor” are a few notable entries in the app’s top trending “comeback” songs - tracks released between five and 25 years ago. Among the “oldies” tracks that resurfaced this year, Boney M.’s “Rasputin (7” Version)” Van McCoy’s “The Hustle” and Billy Joel’s “Zanzibar” were TikTok’s top trending songs. Flo Milli & Sada Baby) - “Clap For ‘Em”įor many in the world, 2021 was also a year of looking, and listening, back. See TikTok’s top 20 tracks of 2021 in the U.S. Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” also ekes its way onto the list at number 10. Popp Hunna’s “Aderall (Corvette Corvette) replaces “Astronaut In the Ocean” as the number one song - with LPB Poody’s “Batman,” Kayla Nicole’s “Bundles,” Doja Cat and SZA’s “Kiss Me More,” and Coi Leray’s “TWINNEM” rounding out the top 5.
Mainstays on the app, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion (for “Up,” and “Cognac Queen,” respectively) close out the top 10. If you’ve been on TikTok at all this year, it’s a list you’ll likely be familiar with.
Most importantly, though, they’ve revealed the top 20 songs that ruled the app in 2021 globally and in the U.S. The newly released data takes stock of any and all sound-related metrics one could imagine, from top artists on the platform to top “oldies” songs that resurfaced over the last year. Now, TikTok has unveiled its official annual internal music report for the past year, laying out just how vastly the app has influenced the industry. Consider the stratospheric rises of Olivia Rodrigo, Måneskin, or even the Australian rapper Masked Wolf - would all three artists have had the same trajectory without TikTok’s help? I guess we’ll never know. It’s obvious by now that the app has resoundingly changed the way musicians and record labels now market and roll out new music, but to witness its cachet play out in real life was still a trip. If there’s one thing 2021 proved, it’s that TikTok’s iron-handed grip on steering the current of pop culture is as strong as ever.