Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” tops the TikTok Billboard Top 50 for a fifth week, while social media stars A.J. & Big Justice snag their first top 10 on a Billboard chart with “We Bring the Boom!” on the Nov. 9-dated ranking.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 28-Nov. 3. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps” leads Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” at Nos. 1-3, respectively, maintaining a hold on the top three that’s persisted for the past three weeks (while the top two has remained intact for even longer, a four-week run).
The rest of the chart’s top 10, however, sees movement – including TikTok stars’ A.J. & Big Justice’s “We Bring the Boom!,” which jumps 15-7 in its second week on the tally. The father-and-son duo’s catchphrase-addled theme song was uploaded to streaming services in early July, with remixes adding new verses from affiliated stars like The Rizzler coming last month.
It’s the latter that drives the lion’s share of the activity for “We Bring the Boom!,” with a dance trend highlighting The Rizzler’s verse among the most-engaged-with uploads in recent weeks. A.J. & Big Justice’s original dance to the song also continues to trend on the platform.
In the tracking week ending Oct. 31, “We Bring the Boom!” earned 434,000 official U.S. streams, a boost of 33%, according to Luminate.
Ahead of “We Bring the Boom!,” The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” leaps into the top five of the chart for the first time, lifting 9-4. The 1981 track from the band’s album Psychedelic Jungle sports a yearly gain around Halloween these days, particularly after its synch in the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday, but this year it scores additional prominence thanks to a trend where a creator is running from a serial killer or some sort of danger, only to turn back around (and often beginning to disrobe) when learning that their pursuer is attractive.
“Goo Goo Muck” earned 1.9 million streams in the week ending Oct. 31, with its gain of 126% also attributable to general Halloweentime jumps.
Two songs debut within the top 10, led by 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s “Runnin,” which debuts at No. 5. The Savage Mode II track, released in 2020, benefits from a photo collage-based trend involving misdirection (example: “he didn’t like my red hair, so I went brown,” but the user choosing a new significant other who has brown hair).
“Runnin” is up 4% in the Oct. 25-31 tracking week to 2.7 million streams. It debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2020.
A brand new song in Tyler, the Creator’s “Like Him” joins “Runnin” in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, debuting at No. 6. It’s one of 14 new songs from the rapper’s album Chromakopia released Oct. 28, with “Sticky” also joining it on the latest survey at No. 50.
“Like Him” is driven by a TikTok trend featuring edits showing often complicated relationships between children and their parents, fictional or otherwise, while others use the tune to make comparisons between athletes past and present.
The Lola Young-featuring song debuts at No. 45 on the Hot 100, as previously reported, via 12.4 million streams in its first four days of availability.
And while the latest TikTok Billboard Top 50 is inundated with Halloween-themed material (Crystal Knives and Lex Allen’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” ranks at No. 11, while The Party Cats’ “This Is Halloween” cover shows up at No. 25, some users got a head start on the Christmas season, as Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” bows at No. 17, followed by Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at No. 48. Carey’s holiday standard reigned for two weeks last year, while “Last Christmas” peaked at No. 2.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
