TikTok: Millions of people celebrate this song – it’s over 160 years old
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An ancient song caused a sensation on the TikTok social network.
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An ancient song has thanks to the social network TikTok Found millions of new fans around the world. In the meantime it even outstrips stars like Rihanna, Ed Sheeran and Co.!
The song and singer were previously completely unknown. The 26-year-old had only about a dozen fans TikTok – until he released this one song that, according to “Spiegel”, changed everything for him.
TikTok: This song is now celebrating the whole world
Nathan Evans from Scotland. If you don’t know this person, you probably aren’t using TikTok. Because this young man is whirling up the music scene in this social network.
It started with a video in which he sang the Irish seaman’s song “Leave her, Johnny, leave her” – rough and unaffected.
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That was around six months ago and since then it has completely thrilled the around 900,000 followers of Evans. But “Johnny” was just the beginning.
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This is TikTok:
- Video portal for lip-syncing music videos and other short video clips
- In 2018 it was one of the fastest growing apps ever
- At the beginning of May 2020, the app was downloaded more than two billion times
- More than a billion people are active every month
- There are allegations of censorship against the platform, as content is sometimes censored in the interests of the Chinese government
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He helped achieve world fame with another song that has been around for around 160 years. And the song did the same for him the other way around: “The Wellerman” triggered a kind of resurrection of the traditional sailor shanties in December.
And all in an app whose users are on average between 16 and 24 years old! This mega-success can be measured on social media, for example using hashtags. And the hashtag #seashanty counts according to “Spiegel“Meanwhile the proud number of around 80 million.
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The hit has these consequences for the young artist
The surprising success not only sparked interest in traditional seaman’s singing, but also paid off for Evans in terms of career. Around a month after his mega-success, the 26-year-old signed a record deal with Polydor, according to “Mads”.
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The 26-year-old can hardly believe this milestone himself. “On Friday I was still a postman, now I’ve just signed a contract with the world’s largest label,” the overjoyed artist announced TikTok. (vh)
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