TikTok and Billboard workforce as much as launch a prime 50 music chart

TikTok and Billboard are partnering to launch an official TikTok Billboard High 50 Chart that tracks the preferred songs on the short-form video-sharing app, the corporate introduced in the present day.

The chart will measure the most popular songs on the platform every week based mostly on the variety of views, person engagement and what number of movies are made utilizing the music. To view TikTok’s High 50 Chart, customers can both go to the TikTok app or the Billboard web site. Will probably be up to date each Thursday morning. TikTok and Billboard will solely monitor trending songs within the U.S.

At the moment, Sexyy Purple’s music “SkeeYee” takes the primary spot on the chart, with Doja Cat’s “Paint the City Purple” in second and Taylor Swift’s “August” claiming third place.

The brand new chart underscores the impression that the platform continues to have on the music business, serving to many rising artists turn into viral sensations, together with Lil Nas X, Tai Verdes, Benee and Loren Grey, amongst others. TikTok additionally boosted the recognition of older songs like Kate Bush’s “Operating Up That Hill.”

“The chart provides a transparent image of the music that’s being listened to on TikTok, and consequently beginning to pattern on DSPs and different providers,” mentioned Ole Obermann, International Head of Music Enterprise Growth at TikTok, in an announcement.

Billboard additionally tracks songs from different platforms, similar to X, previously often called Twitter. The chart is named the Scorching Trending Songs chart and, as of this writing, sees Olivia Rodrigo management the highest three spots together with her latest songs, “The Grudge,” “Fairly Isn’t Fairly” and “Logical.” The music publication beforehand had the same chart for MySpace.

Earlier this month, TikTok introduced a digital expertise present on TikTok Stay to reward aspiring artists from world wide.