Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Maps’ Spends Second Week Atop TikTok Billboard Top 50
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” earns a second week at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, while five songs – four of them debuts – break into the top 10 of the Oct. 19-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. 7-13. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps,” from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 2003 album Fever to Tell, peaked at No. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004. Its TikTok resurgence has pushed the song to new heights on chart-reporting music streaming services; the song racked up 1.9 million official U.S. streams in the week ending Oct. 10, up 23%, according to Luminate.
The tune remains driven by a pair of trends on TikTok. One is a dance, while the other features creators using a filter to remove their facial features, only to have said features float back onto their face, sometimes in the wrong spot. A sped-up version of “Maps” has contributed to the song’s success on TikTok as well.
Alphaville’s “Forever Young,” which reigned on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 dated Oct. 5, rebounds 3-2 on the latest list, followed by a debut in John Mackk’s “Pose for Me,” featuring Natalie Nunn, which bows at No. 3.
“Pose for Me” was originally released in March, but a remix dropped on Sept. 6 that has driven the lion’s share of the activity since. With its eponymous command, the song has spurred a variety of pose-related dance moves on TikTok, generally centered on Nunn’s verse that continues, “Baddies, pose for me/ A– fat, slim thick, no tummy.”
“Pose for Me” marks the first appearance on a Billboard chart for both Mackk and Nunn. The song earned 736,000 streams in the week ending Oct. 10.
Gracie Abrams’ “I Love You, I’m Sorry” isn’t new to the TikTok Billboard Top 50, rising as high as No. 34 in September. But the Oct. 19 ranking finds it reaching new heights, re-entering the chart at No. 4. That’s concurrent with a return to Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart; it re-entered at No. 49 on the Oct. 12 list and vaults to a new peak of No. 23 on the latest ranking, thanks to 11.5 million streams, up 41%.
Its resurgence is partially tied to a new version of the song; Abrams played a live take of the song for Vevo Extended Play, uploading it to her YouTube on Oct. 2. Recent TikTok uploads again zero in on Abrams’ “lay on the horn to prove that it haunts me” lyric, with the majority relating in some way to relationships past and present.
KSI’s “Thick of It,” which features Trippie Redd, debuts at No. 6 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, concurrent with the song’s debut at No. 84 on the Hot 100. Some say all publicity is good publicity, and in the case of “Thick of It,” many of the top-performing TikTok uploads reference the negative reviews the song has received.
Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” bows at No. 7, albeit a remix of the song that was featured in the trailer for the film Wrath of Man. Its usage on TikTok in the latest tracking week revolves around uploads showcasing the devastation of Hurricane Milton in the U.S. (and previously that of Hurricane Helene).
It’s Cash’s second top 10 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 in 2024; “The Chicken in Black” peaked at No. 6 in May.
The final top 10 debut of the week belong’s to Akon, whose “Akon’s Beautiful Day” starts at No. 8. It’s a new song from the veteran singer-songwriter, released on Oct. 4 after being teased on TikTok in the weeks leading up. Many of the top uploads are from Akon himself, along with other usages.
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
