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Viral “enemy government takeover” Tiktok becomes a bestseller song

Welcome to Billboard ProS trend Newsletters in which we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have attracted the attention of the music industry. Some came out of nowhere, others took months to catch themselves, and everyone could be omnipresent in no time at a Tikok clip.

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This week: A viral tikok is confused into a best -selling protest song. An indie rock institution is (again) presented (again) through a great film synchronization and Philadelphia can celebrate a further profit in February through a breakout-rap hit.

Dance remixed 'enemy government adopted' transforms the current events into a BOP

A few weeks after Donald Trump had returned to the White House and dismantled the standards to the left and right, the Tiktok user Agiftfromtodd recorded a 30-second video in which he prepared to leave his house while he crowned an original song: “We are in the middle of a hostile takeover. Todd's soulful alarmism became viral, with thousands of likes and shares on Tiktok at the upload on February 4, and while he published a few new versions of the song in the following weeks, the one who is crossed to streaming services is an EDM -Remix that hopelessness with a club -Knall, Couresy of Producer Vinny Marchi.

“Federdile Government takeover” by Agiftfromtodd & Vinny Marchi spent a good part of the last weekend at iTunes in 1st place and sold 4,800 downloads from February 21 to 24. In the meantime, the further dance remixing will increase 597,000 official US on-demand streams over this four-day period of 153,000 streams from the past tracking period from Friday to Monday. While the song this week in 13th place from Hot Dance/Electronic Songs-Plus No. 2 for dance/electronics digital song sales and No. 12 for digital song selling is the good news for Todd Givens Jr. – – Jason Lipshutz


Yeah yeah yeahs 'Edge' in the direction of another new viral hit thanks to 'Gorge' synch

If there is a rock -act 20 years ago that does not require any other bumps of newly discovered gene Z virality, then it is probably New York The Yeah Yeahs. The trio, which has been reunited in 2022 for his first album for almost a decade, spent astonishing eight weeks on the Billboard Tiktok Top 50 chart for the 2003 Power Ballad “Maps” last year and brought millions of streams a week for the revitalized (and revirated) hit. Now the group is increasing again with a catalog hit-this time is not for another decades of song, but a song from this reunification album.

“Spit out the edge of the world”, which was the main role of the single from 2022 Cool it And showed an assist from recognized old pop singer-songwriter Parfüm Genius, got a big look in the original film from Apple TV The gorgepublished on Valentine's Day. The song plays during a crucial love scene between the co-leads of the film star Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy-and shot at the top of the Shazam charts almost immediately after the film was published, which still round out there when people found out how the Doomy song played in the Action Romance.

Many of these Shazamer undoubtedly also streamed “Spitting”-the song for the tracking week, which ended on February 20, 629,000 official US streams in the United States. And many also bought the song: “Spitting” sold almost 3,000 copies this week, a massive profit from the Just-over 100 parade, which it moved the week before, and good enough for a debut in the digital song sales type of the group on this list. – – Andrew Einberger


Philly Mc Skrilla taps RWE Basketball Star & Tiktok 'Clipfarming' for the latest viral hit

Last autumn (September 9, 2024), a nameless TikTok account uploaded a section of a Skrilla song that was unpublished at the time with the title “DooT DooT”. The snippet quickly rented viral because its strip opening verse, 1ellis' granular production and its unforgettable delivery of the expression “Six, Seven”. The snippet has been used in over 126,000 TikK posts since September, which finally made an official DSP release on February 7, 2024.

When the Snippet “Doot Doot” continued to round the TIKTOK in 2025, the song brought an unforeseen supporter in Taylor “TK” Kinney, a basketball star for the RWE of the overtime Elite League. The baller, who comes from Newport, Kentucky, has found a way in almost every interview from the past few months to say “Six, Seven” in Skrilla's cadence. The expression is now a synonym for TK and Skrilla in socials, and the two young men were able to link personally two weeks ago at an RWE game.

For weeks, Tikok users have been positive to the “Clip Farming” of TK – a practice that basically means to do something deliberately, in the hope that it will be cut down and recharged through social media – by providing changes in his game, which are summarized with the snippet “six”, seven, with the Snippet “DooT DooT” snippel.

According to Luminate, “Doot Doot” deserves in his first publication of 1.7 million official US streams (February 7th to 13th). This number rose by 105% to over 3.5 million streams in the following week. The track has already collected 3.2 million streams in the first four days of this tracking week (February 21 to 24), according to the initial data from Luminate, which marks a jump of 88% compared to the same period of the previous week.

With its official music video, which was achieved in just more than a week of 1.26 million YouTube calls and no signs of slowing down TIKKOK, there is countless space for Skrilla's latest hit to continue growing. – – Kyle Denis