Billboard debuts TikTok Top 50 Chart

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TikTok and Billboard announced the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart — a new weekly chart that will track the most popular songs on the platform in the U.S. The chart is available to all TikTok users in the U.S. and on Billboard.com.

The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is the first chart to monitor the popularity of music on the video-sharing platform. The chart is based on a combination of creations, video views and user engagement by the U.S. TikTok community and will be released weekly every Thursday, starting today. https://www.billboard.com/charts/tiktok-billboard-top-50/

 

Edited September 14, 2023 by Teletubby

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What’s going to happen when TikTok is eventually not the standard anymore? Despite its insane popularity, I just think it’s odd and kind of chintzy to add a category just for a social media brand. TikTok could measure this on their own time and just have a leaderboard displayed in their app of the top songs… Billboard is severely unserious for this. Worth mentioning that their user base seems to be a decent majority of very young people, who naturally have hours to spend on the app and run up numbers. Stan behavior is prevalent too so it gets complicated. Ngl this is kind of upsetting to see  

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17 minutes ago, INNA said:

What’s going to happen when TikTok is eventually not the standard anymore? Despite its insane popularity, I just think it’s odd and kind of chintzy to add a category just for a social media brand. TikTok could measure this on their own time and just have a leaderboard displayed in their app of the top songs… Billboard is severely unserious for this. Worth mentioning that their user base seems to be a decent majority of very young people, who naturally have hours to spend on the app and run up numbers. Stan behavior is prevalent too so it gets complicated. Ngl this is kind of upsetting to see  

What’s going to happen when TikTok is eventually not the standard anymore? Ummm, they just remove the chart. It's not like it's being counted towards the Hot 100, etc. This makes total sense. TikTok has changed the music industry and how we digest music. 

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Is it unique to tiktok only or will it count reels and shorts music as well?

Also, it should be global and not us only

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On Thursday (Sept. 14), TikTok and Billboard announced the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart — a new weekly chart that will track the most popular songs on the platform in the U.S. The chart is available to all TikTok users in the U.S. and on Billboard.com.

TikTok users can find the new chart by pressing the round icon on the bottom corner of the screen in the TikTok app and tapping the “Music Charts” button in the top right. The chart can also be found on Billboard.com, updated weekly each Thursday.

The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is the first chart to monitor the popularity of music on the video-sharing platform. The chart is based on a combination of creations, video views and user engagement by the U.S. TikTok community and will be released weekly every Thursday, starting today.

Sexyy Red is the first artist to top the chart, with “SkeeYee” starting at No. 1 on this week’s inaugural TikTok Billboard Top 50. (Three other Sexxy Red songs also land on this week’s tally.) Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” — which climbs to No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 — is the No. 2 track on the first TikTok Billboard Top 50, while Taylor Swift’s folklore track “august” lands at No. 3.

“TikTok is already the world’s most powerful platform for music discovery and promotion, and each week our passionate community of music fans drives songs onto the Billboard charts,” said Ole Obermann, global head of music business development at TikTok. “It therefore made perfect sense to partner with Billboard to create the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart. The chart gives a clear picture of the music that is being listened to on TikTok, and consequently starting to trend on DSPs and other services.”

In addition to the contemporary top three on the new chart, Dazz Band’s “Let It Whip” — a top five Hot 100 hit from 1982 — lands in the top 10 of the first TikTok Billboard Top 50, along with country tracks from Zach Bryan and Tim McGraw and songs from R&B legend Charlie Wilson and emo band Pinegrove.

“We are thrilled to partner on the first Billboardchart on TikTok,” said Mike Van, president, Billboard. “At Billboard, we are constantly evolving our charts to reflect how fans engage with music and connect them more deeply with the artists they love. We see a clear opportunity to recognize the way music discovery on TikTok is shaping popular culture and are proud to offer this tool to the industry, while offering brands a new way to engage with music fans at scale. You’re not No. 1 until you’re No. 1 on Billboard.”

“As a company that supports, nurtures and powers independent artists and creators, we believe that this is an incredible precursor for what’s to come in this era of independent business thought leaders such as Stan and Jay of [Sexyy Red’s label] Open Shift, and fiercely independent artists such as Sexyy Red, who are tackling the new modem music business with a sense of bravery and adventurousness that doesn’t subscribe to the norm or the conventionality of how it’s been done.”

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/tiktok-billboard-top-50-chart-launch-1235412993/

 

With this, Toktok charts officially becomes more relevant than iTunes Top 10 

And yeah, Toktok will not die anytime soon. They just keep growing and expanding