BabyChiefDoit Reigns on TikTok Billboard Top 50 With ‘Rollin”
A week after its strong No. 2 debut on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart dated Sept. 21, BabyChiefDoit’s “Rollin’” is the ranking’s latest No. 1, lifting 2-1 on the tally dated Sept. 28.
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 Sept. 16-22. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Rollin’” reigns thanks largely to lip-synchs set to the song’s “Don’t slip, don’t trip, don’t fall/ Come to the crib and take off your drawers” lyric, as well as a dance.
In the latest Billboard chart tracking week ending Sept. 19, “Rollin’” earned 1.1 million official U.S. streams, a gain of 135%, according to Luminate. So far, the TikTok Billboard Top 50 is the only chart on which the song appears, and it became BabyChiefDoit’s first Billboard appearance overall upon its Sept. 21 bow.
Like many of the chart’s top-performing songs these days, some of the highest ranking TikTok uploads using “Rollin’” also set the song to footage from the Nickelodeon live action series Henry Danger, which aired between 2014-20. The song that originally sparked the trend of Henry Danger-related memes, Ashanti’s “Rain on Me,” concurrently remains at its No. 5 peak.
Alphaville’s 1984 single “Forever Young” follows “Rollin’,” leaping 7-2 for a new peak after previously rising as high as No. 4. The song, which eventually rose as high as No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 four years after its release in 1988, has fluctuated on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 the past month; after debuting at No. 50 on the Aug. 3 survey, it initially broke into the top 10 the following week and then rose into the top five on the Sept. 7 list.
Trends involving “Forever Young” have ranged from one where one person lifts the other in the air and spins them around while water sprays down on top of them from a bottle, to general content about getting older and reminiscing about one’s younger days, to edits of content about fictional characters who passed on early in their respective universes.
IV of Spades’ “Come Inside of My Heart” ranks at No. 3, jumping into the top 10 after debuting at No. 13 on the Sept. 21 tally. The song was released as part of IV of Spades’ 2019 album CLAPCLAPCLAP! and has largely been used in general viral content rather than with a major throughline trend. The track concurrently jumps 63% to 215,000 streams in the week ending Sept. 19.
Jack Johnson’s “Upside Down,” which peaked at No. 38 on the Hot 100 in 2006, debuts at No. 4 on the latest TikTok Billboard Top 50. Written for that year’s film Curious George, Johnson’s fan favorite nabs a place on the survey with a two-person trend in which one person flips the other upside down – with varying results.
Now that the TikTok Billboard Top 50 has existed for a year, celebrating its first birthday two weeks ago, the chart is sure to see songs connected to or affiliated with certain times of the year make what could be an annual return. This week, it’s Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” which re-enters at No. 13.
“September,” which spikes in all music-related consumption every year due to its opening Sept. 21-related lyric (“do you remember/ the 21st night of September”), debuted at No. 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated Sept. 30, 2023. It’s back for another round via dances, lip synchs, sketches and other uploads celebrating the track’s yearly bump in attention, 45 years after it peaked on the Hot 100 at No. 8 in February 1979.
As the TikTok Billboard Top 50 tracked the Sept. 16-22 period, overall gains for “September” on the rest of the Billboard charts will be known on the Oct. 5-dated tallies, which comprise the Sept. 20-26 tracking week.
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.
Kevin Rutherford
Billboard
