Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter. Here, we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities, and trends that are capturing the music industry’s attention. Some came out of nowhere, others took months to become popular, and they all can become ubiquitous in the blink of an eye on TikTok clips.
This week: Shabouzi’s SNL appearance brings him a big step closer to a second solo hit, an early MGMT clip puts one of his classic singles back in the news, and a new dance trend brings back the 2Pac Hot 100-top artist.
Shabzi’s second hit ‘Good News’ on Saturday night
Shabboozi has become a near-inescapable presence in recent months, appearing at the CMA Awards, Grammy nominations, and of course on the Billboard Hot 100, where his four-quadrant smash hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” set a record. It will span 19 weeks from late summer to fall. The country singer-songwriter made his debut on the weekly NBC comedy and live music show on Nov. 30, performing both “A Bar Song” and his new single, so now he’s on Saturday Night in Passport 2024.・You can add live stamps. “Good News” – the latter recently debuted at No. 71 on the Hot 100.
“Good News” is on track to be Shabuzy’s second consecutive big hit, and the boost he got from his emotional performance on SNL should definitely help. “Good News” reached 1.5 million U.S. on-demand audio streams from Sunday to Monday, up 13% from Sunday to Monday, following his appearance from the same period last week, according to Luminate. Over 2,200 units were sold in the same two days. “A Bar Song,” which has already been at the top of digital song sales for 15 consecutive weeks, continued to grow in sales during that period as Shabouzi’s two singles also took the top two spots, increasing 86% in two days. The total was nearly 2,600. Ranked on iTunes real-time chart.
Next week may not push “Good News” to a new Hot 100 peak, as the song has struggled to stand out in the face of the flood of holiday songs that have flooded the charts in recent weeks. But this bodes well for the song finding its own direction. By early 2025, jukeboxes will singalong themselves. — Andrew Unterberger
2Pac’s former Hot 100 No. 1 returns to TikTok
Two weeks after Kendrick Lamar’s GNX brought new attention to “Made N—az” (K. Dot flipped the 1997 song on its head with “Reincarnated”), another 2Pac song Streaming is showing remarkable growth. Thanks to an infectious new dance trend featuring choreography by TikTok creators @roniahalynn_ and @donthurtemniaa, 2Pac’s K-Ci and JoJo-assisted “How Do UU Want It” has the most streaming activity in the past 4, according to Luminate That’s an increase of more than 102% week over week. .
Official U.S. on-demand streams for “How Do U Want It” hovered around 900,000 until user @roniahalynn_ posted her version of the dance on Nov. 15. By the end of the week, “How Do U Want It” had increased by 14%, gaining over 1.02 million streams during the period from November 15th to 21st. User @roniahalynn_’s original clip has more than 1.9 million views on TikTok, and the sound she used currently boasts more than 209,000 posts. An additional unofficial sound using some of 2Pac’s tracks is played on over 138,000 posts, and another unofficial sound is played on almost 50,000 posts. The official “How Do U Want It” sound is played on just under 10,000 posts.
From November 22nd to 28th, streaming activity for “How Do U Want It” increased by 44% to over 1.48 million streams. This number increased by another 16% the following week (November 29th to December 5th), with over 1.7 million official on-demand streams in the US. Notably, user @donthurtemniaa’s original dance trend is soundtracked by 22Daboat’s “Munyun.”
Already ranked 16th on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 (as of December 7), 2Pac, who previously topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, is expected to continue rising in streaming rankings as the dance trend grows. be done. – Kyle Dennis
MGMT plays ‘Kids’ in his childhood: Old footage fuels new streaming surge
In 2003, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser were students at Wesleyan University playing small gigs on campus with their band The Management. The duo eventually rebranded as MGMT and became a defining group of the indie boom of the late 2000s, earning a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and releasing a meandering, often very He would go on to have a fruitful recording career. life. But this week, thanks to newly discovered footage of the artist known as MGMT performing his unmistakable 2008 synth-pop single “Kids,” the internet was treated to an unexpected look at an early college show. There is.
A video uploaded by YouTube user Rad Scientist on Nov. 28 shows VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser giving an early presentation by playing a daytime outdoor gig in front of a brick wall for friends. When he’s not there, he’s shown running around or sprawled out on the ground (albeit mostly intact), in a version of the song that later became “Kids.” The clip went viral last week online, and thanks to the unexpected trip down memory lane, “Kids” has seen a 60% increase in weekly on-demand streams in the U.S. to 1.11 million for the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate. The following week, the number reached 1.78 million people. . The increase in streaming is likely to continue for several weeks, but who knows? Indie nostalgia is a powerful thing. Next, footage of Vampire Weekend performing “Campus” on campus may be unearthed. – Jason Lipshutz
